Ainsley still says "no" or shakes her head "no" when she means "yes".  It's very rare that she'll answer a question with "yes", but she always answers with "no" even when she means "yes".

Stacking blocks

Today we learned 'up' and 'down'.  She's very proud of herself after she says it, and points up and down, too.  She thinks she's hot stuff!

She also found the beads that she somehow came home with over the weekend.  Thanks, Jeremy and Kathleen!

We went to Placke's yesterday to meet Joel and Jim for lunch.  Ainsley was really good the whole time!  Brad even gave her a balloon before we left, which made her day.  She loved it!

Fish lips

She loves to go down to the basement and play. I think it's because she has a lot more room to run around than upstairs.  If we even mention going downstairs, she runs to the basement door.  She's learned how to go down the stairs by scooting on her butt, although I still stand in front of her the whole time, because it still scares me. 


Why can't I lay on the baby bed???

What, Mom?!?!

Finally putting her baby to bed and kissing her good night.

I'm sure she picked this up from the kids at Lisa's, but she's been laying on her belly to watch tv.  She did it for the first time one day last week and I just laughed at her, because she's never done it before.  It's pretty cute!

Last Friday it was so nice outside (almost 70) so we spent some time outside, which Ainsley loves.  I think she'd stay outside all day if I would let her. 

Grandma's driving....both hands on the wheel!

She loves the lawn mower and runs right over to it and has to climb up and act like she's driving.

I took her to the doctor last week because I was afraid she had another ear infection.   She'd been cranky, not eating, runny nose, etc.  Luckily, both ears and her throat looked good!  However, little Miss Ainsley did not want to go back to the room to be checked out.  As soon as the nurse called our name in the waiting room, Ainsley lost it and started throwing a fit.  She wanted to stay in the waiting room and color.  We got into the room and she was still throwing a fit, so I put her on the floor while the nurse asked the regular questions.  Ainsley proceeded to bang her head on the floor (hard) while crying, and of course, it left a huge red mark on her forehead. 

Just hanging out with a big red mark on my forehead....