Keeping up with Ainsley

Ainsley continues to learn new things every day and continues to amaze us with the things she comes up with. 

There's her tongue...it's been MIA from pictures for awhile!

She started saying "cookie" about three weeks ago.  She walked around saying "cookie" over and over for an entire day.  We couldn't figure out where she learned the word, because it's not one we say often.  I finally figured it had to be from Lisa's, so I asked the next day and sure enough, Blaine says cookie all the time and that's where she got it from. 

When she wants to know where someone or something is, she'll put her hands out to her sides and look at you and say "um um um um".  I have no idea where she got this from, but it's adorable.  If we're home and Joel isn't, she'll look at me and say "Trista-Joel" and then put her hands out and say "um um um um".  She's wanting to know where her Daddy is. 

Ainsley and Daddy

Joel and I both have noticed several times over the last few weeks where Ainsley knows something that neither one of us can figure out where she's learned it from.  We've never really went over what a frog is with her, but in a book in the bathtub, there is a little girl holding a frog on one page.  I asked her where the frog was (thinking she had no idea what it even was) and she pointed right to it!  Even though she's still not saying many new words, or very many words at all, she does know what things are and can point to them if asked.

One thing she's really interested in right now is a clock.  She's found a clock in two or three of her books (that I never noticed) and will point to it until I tell her that, yes, that's a clock.  If she sees a clock on the wall, she has to point it out.  Again, we have no clue where the interest in clocks came from.

She's found her chair again!  She hasn't paid much attention to it for a few months.

She loves to talk on the phone.  If anyone calls, she's right next to me the whole time until I let her talk, and then she doesn't want to give the phone up!  She'll give kisses over the phone to tell whoever she's talking to "bye", and let me tell you, they're some of the best kisses.  You can hear the "smack" of her lips when she gives them!

Another new thing she started to do this week is read her books out loud to herself.  She'll be sitting somewhere looking at a book, just jabbering away as she turns the pages.

I was vacuuming the other day and found her in her room reading in her rocking chair

Makes my heart smile. :)

Her favorite song to sing continues to be "Old McDonald had a farm".  Ainsley can only sing two parts of the song, and she enjoys singing them over and over and over and over!  This is Ainsley's version of the song:  "e-i-e-i-e-i-e-i-o, woof woof.....e-i-e-i-e-i-e-i-o, woof woof.....e-i-e-i-e-i-e-i-o, woof woof".  She thinks Old McDonald only has a dog on his farm, and puts a few too many "e-i's" in there, but it's all good!

During the last few days her favorite word has become "poop".  She'll say it and point to her butt, and at first, she did it when she really had pooped, but yesterday and today she'll say it every hour or so and didn't really poop. 

The holiday toy book came from Toys R Us this week and Ainsley loves to look through it. 

Christmas shopping

She found the Disney Jr. page!

We went over to Jeremy and Kathleen's a few weeks ago and Lani loved playing with Ainsley.

I don't think a house could ever be quiet with both of these girls in the same house...check out this video of Lani and Ainsley!

She loves to get on her horse and bounce.  I was cracking up at her the other morning because she had pigtails and her hair was flying all over!

There's one of those dirty looks I've been referring to...

Next minute, she's smiling at you. Crazy girl!

Ainsley still loves to dance (which definitely didn't come from her Mommy).  Here's a video of her dancing the other weekend.

We got some stickers in the mail the other day and Ainsley thought she'd struck gold!   She was in heaven!

Check out all those stickers!

I was at bunco a few weeks ago, and Ainsley was home with Daddy.  I got a text from Joel with the picture below.  Ainsley was playing with her baby's hair while drinking her milk before bed, since Mommy's hair wasn't available.  I cracked up when I got the picture!  Of course, she had mis-matched pajamas also.  I swear, all her pajamas are together in sets in her drawer, but Joel still manages to mess them up.

I caught her trying to climb into her baby's stroller the other day...

Someone loves her cottage cheese!

Jack-o-lantern

I thought Ainsley would like helping dig all the guts out of the pumpkin and help carve it, but she didn't really want anything to do with it.  Joel ended up doing pretty much all of it. 

 

Ainsley did put some of the pumpkin seeds, etc. into the bucket after we handed them to her.  She didn't like it on her hands, but at least she tried!

 

Where's Ainsley's nose?

Where's the pumpkin's nose?

She was too busy turning the tv on and off, climbing on the foot stool, and watching Wilma mow out the window than actually paying attention to her pumpkin. 

Yelling for Wilma...

We ended up getting the job done, and now have a jack-o-lantern on our front porch.  Ainsley has become really interested in pumpkins over the last few weeks.  We have a Halloween book that we read that has pumpkins, and if she sees a pumpkin while we're out, she has to point them out.  I have divert her attention while walking into Walmart, because they have pumpkins lined up in front of the store, and she always wants to go over to them instead of just going in to get what we need.

She was all sticky after messing with the pumpkin, so we stuck her in the bathtub.  She loves a bubble bath!

Pumpkin patch

We were able to go to Broom's Orchard a few weekends ago to get Ainsley a pumpkin.  With all the rain we've been getting, Joel wasn't in the fields and was able to join us.  

 

 

She thought she was big stuff and could lift the pumpkin...

That one's it, Daddy!

Ainsley had a good time running around the pumpkin patch looking at all the pumpkins. 

 

 

 

 

We found a good one, and headed back to the car to pay for it.  Of course, Ainsley saw all the playgroup equipment once we got back to the car and wanted to play.  We let her play for a few minutes, and when we decided it was time to go, Ainsley wasn't having it.  She screamed and threw a pretty good fit while fighting us to get in her carseat. 

Her fit didn't last long, and we ran over to Lou and Alaina's to see their new house.  They have a lot more room in this one, and Hadlee liked watching Ainsley play with her toys. 

Joel got Ainsley dressed that morning before we left the house and of course, he had to pull her socks up so they were knee socks.  I think Ainsley liked them as much as Mommy...

 

Fix my socks, Daddy!!!

Ainsley plays with Papa Jim and Daddy

Jim came over a few weeks ago while Rita was gone and ate supper with us and then played tractors with Ainsley before heading home.  Ainsley liked showing Grandpa how the tractors worked.

This is where the cow goes...

Every night, it's a waiting game as to when Daddy will get home.  Ainsley loves running around the kitchen island chasing Joel. 

Hugs after Daddy scared her

I found some jumbo sunglasses in the closet a few weeks ago and gave them to Ainsley.  She thinks they're pretty cool!  At least she appreciates the leftover gag gifts from Christmas!!

One thing she's starting doing in the last few weeks is making terrible faces.  She can glare at you one minute and the next minute be your best friend.  I wish I could get all her faces on camera, but of course she throws a fit any time she sees the camera out.  I did manage to get some good ones with the sunglasses, though.

Pig nose!

There's a dirty look