By Request---

Aunt Anna has requested that I make a list of toys/books Adelyn has since Christmas and her birthday are both right around the corner. (Hopefully Christmas will be spent in our new house!!!)

Toys:

• Kitchen with LOTS of food, utensils, plates, cups, shopping cart, etc
• Tea set
• 2 baby dolls with accessories (stroller, high chair, bed)
• easel with coloring supplies (although we can never have too many coloring books or sticker pads)
• Fisher Price Zoo with the following animals: lion, tiger, zebra, killer whale, brown bear, polar bear, baby lion, giraffe, dolphin, ostrich, alligator, seal, penguin, leopard, rhino, elephant.
• tricycle 
• Princess car
• Mr. Potato Head
• more legos than you can imagine 

 Those are it as far as bigger items that she place with frequently. We also have a lot of stuffed animals, but more of those never hurt anyone :)

Books:

• goodnight moon
• almost all of Eric Carle's (author of The Very Hungry Caterpillar) books

We have tons. and tons. and tons of books. She has a new favorite everyday. Those two are some of the hot kids books, which is why i listed them. She is also very much into tearing pages out of books when left alone with them, so we try to get cardboard pages :)

The current 'must have' items:

• Anything Mickey/Minnie/Daisey, etc
• Disney Princess
• shoes
• cute girly clothes
• play doh

Anna, hope this helps. Comment below if you need more info :)

Terrible Two's?

I think Adelyn has officially hit the terrible two's stage. Not when we are around other people, mind you, she only reserves this joy for Paul and me. The past several days/nights she has thrown massive tantrums before dinner and bath times. I dont know if it is because she is tired, hungry, both? And it does not help that her memory has gotten so much better so she remembers things she was mad about from earlier in the day and brings it up. She definitely has a personality and knows exactly what she wants to do and how it needs to happen. She gets upset when I try to 'help' her (ie. putting clothes, shoes on in the morning, buckling her carseat, etc) and when I finally force her into something she just screams and lays on the floor. I suppose it is all par for the course. I just hope this is it and it doesn't get any worse!
In other news, Paul and I have been looking at houses. We found one that just feels like home. It is a 3/3 on .9 acres. It was built in the 80s and definitely needs a little TLC, but it is completely move in ready and can be updated as we can. We are planning on putting an offer in later this week and *hopefully* renting out the rest of our current home so we won't have to sell it. Wish us luck! We need the extra space!