26 months

**Here are some of Andi's funny phrases for the month...


When we are in the car and the air conditioner is blowing too hard for Andi's liking, she will say, "Turn the wind off."

"Oh what a mess..."  Unfortunately I hear this morn than I would like to admit (especially when Andi opens the doors to my closet).



4/23/12:
Andi's favorite game right now and to play "Hide and Seek."  Andi and I were hiding together while Daddy came to look for us.  While seeking us, Daddy would say, "Where could they be?  Are they in_____?"  Andi would make it easy on him and where ever we were hiding would say, "We're in here. We're in the bathtub." or "We're under the blanket." Then it would be her turn to seek and she would cover her eyes and count to ten and then exclaim, "Ready or not here I come."  


After dinner Andi said, "Can I have a napkin to wipe my face?"  Also after dinner Dave burped.  Andi looked at him and said, "Excuse you!"

I guess my little lady is sometimes not-so-lady like..."I tooted. Excuse me." while giggling.

Along with playing Hide and Seek, Andi likes to imitate animals.. The new ones this month were bats and kangaroos.  Andi exclaimed, "Let's hang upside down like bats!"  Then preceeded to get on the couch and hand off of it upside down (just like a bat).  The she wanted to be kangaroos.  I picked her up and we started hopping around the room (she likes to be baby kangaroo).  She surprised us when she said, "I'm a joey in mommy kangaroo's pouch."  (What 2 year old knows that a baby kangaroo is called a Joey?!)

4/28/12:
Andi was invited to her friend Avery's 2nd birthday party and who showed up to surprise them?  Minnie Mouse!  Andi was not sure about her at first but watched the other girls hug her and dance with her, so Andi joined in the action.  

5/2:
"I have long, strong legs like a frog!"
"The fan is blowing our hair away."
Called Daddy "Honey, my Honey."

Andi is able to put her Crocs shoes on all by herself.  Prefers to put them on without any help.  "I can do it.  I can put them on all by myself"  She will even say, "This one goes on my right foot and this one goes on my left foot."  Andi also likes to take off her own socks and now even pulls her shorts on and off, more often times off.

5/3:
"Come on , Princess!" to Pearl.  (I must say this to Andi sometimes, calling her princess and she thought that would be a good term of endearment for Pearl too.)
Andi, Pearl and I were in the car driving to Nana and Papa's house.  Andi looked at Pearl and said, "Stop whinning, Pearl. Don't worry, Pearl.  We'll be back in a minute."

5/4: 
Andi and i were eating dinner on our own and sitting at a booth just outside the play area.  There was a boy who was playing in the play area, looking at us throught the glass while we ate, trying to make us laugh.  Andi said, "Hi Handsome."  Oh my!  Really?!  I couldn't help but laugh.  I texted Dave immediately and his response was "Oh no!"

Were were making play dough snakes, when Andi said, "Bye-Bye. Give me a kiss.  This little baby snake needs her mommy. She loves her mommy."  Jsut precious.  She really likes the mommy/baby relationship.


Out of the blue, she said, "What a wonderful day!"


I got Andi a new pair of Crocs shoes and really wanted her to try them on.  I put them on her feet and she said, "These shoes feel good on me, mommy." looking at her new Dora Crocs.

5/7: Andi now loves making funny faces. She will say, "Watch this mommy."  Then she covers her face with her hands, moves them away and tilts to the side with a huge smile on her face and her tongue sticking out and arms raised above her head.  Then she ask, "Is that silly, Mommy?"

"Look... at... me... Mommy/Daddy!"  She loves to say this when she is swinging.  So she says it drawn out on each down/up swing, in rhythm with the swing.

In the past, Andi has had "Mommy, Daddy and Baby dinosaurs".  Occasionally even "Brother and Sister dinosaur."  Today she added, :"Grandma, Grandpa and Granddaughter dinosaurs."

5/9: While reading books before going to bed, Andi was picking out which book she wanted to read tonight.  She pulled out one book (that has picture of a real baby dressed like a bumble bee) and said, "That baby book is too creepy!"  Dave and I looked at each other as if to say, 'did she really just say that?'  So I asked her, "What did you say?"  She repeat it, "That baby book is too creepy!"  Ha!  Guess she will not ever what to read that one!

5/10: "My hair is getting so long!"  She said this while combing fingers through her hair.

5/13: After church, Dave and Andi were playing and he was throwing her up in the air and she said, "Do it again, father!"  This cracked us up.  She said it again, "Do it again, father."


On that note, Andi knows that her mommy's name is "Shara" and her Daddy's name is "David."  Dave asked her this a while back and she knew exactly.
5/14: With her arms stretched out, leaning back on bench in back yard, Andi said, "This is so comfortable."

5/17: Andi has become a fan of Winnie the Pooh.  She even got a Winnie the Pooh and Eyore stuffed animal this month.  She has been singing the theme song, "Winnie the Pooh, silly willy nilly old Bear.  Well she decided to change it up this day and sang, "Silly willy nilly ole Nana."  Then she sang, "Silly willy nilly little Momma."


It is remarkable how clearly Andi speaks and how many words/phrases she can say and piece together.  I am trying to capture them all, but that is not possible.  She makes s laugh and smile daily and warms my heart and soul in ways that words cannot express.  I treasure these precious times with my precious girl.

25 months

25 months old...another wow!  Not sure I am going to keep up with monthly posts now that Andi is Two, but she is doing so much and saying such cute things on a daily basis that I might have to!

Look how tall she is getting! 

Here are just a few things that I wrote down that were too cute to forget.

Andi is very much into dinosaurs.  She loves to play with them, knows several different dinosaur names: (Triceratops, T-Rex, Stegasaurous, Pteradactyl, Woolly Mammoth).  She likes to play with her dinosaurs in their cave (which is a cardboard box).  Her favorite thing to do is to make her dinosaurs a birthday cake and sing them the "Happy Birthday" song.



Andi has mastered the rock wall on her fort in the backyard.  She loves to climb up it and prefers it over the ladder now.  She also has goten to where she really enjoys gong down the slide.  Before now she would go down it, but now she asks to go down it or just does so on her own.  I think she is proud of her accomplishment of climbing the rock wall and is proud of her fort.  When we see others like it, she will remark, "That looks kind of like my playground, like my fort."

4/1:  andi begged to take a dinosaur to bed with her, so shewent to bed with her plastic toy dinosaur, "Mommy Triceratops."

I asked her after dinner if she wanted a mash-up and her reply was, "Yes!  That would make me so happy!"

As we drove by Allen's baseball field, Andi yelled, "Mommy! Look an eagle.  Can we go watch baseball? Can we go watch Uncle Shawn play baseball?"

4/4: One evening while playing downstairs and helping me make dinner Andi said, "I want to be a moviestar!"  I said, "What did you say?"  And sure enough, she said it again, "I want to be a moviestar!"
I guess Andi is grasping the idea of good and bad choices becuase she said to me "That's a bad choice!"  Cannot recall what we were doing...I think I was suggesting option of things to play or maybe it was food choices.  Either way, she did not like it.

Andi is singing all the time!  I know she is my child because she makes up her own songs about what she is doing or where we are going.  She has even started repeating some of my made up songs.  This makes me laugh becuase I will sing her a made up song and she will ask me to "sing again, Mommy"  but I am not always confident that when I repeat the song that I sang the same words or tune the second time through.  I have been singing, "Hush Little Baby...Momma's Gonna Buy You a Mockingbird"  After the Diamond Ring verse, I just start making it up, and Andi has started singing my made up verses while we play.  So funny and cute!

4/14: Shane and Anna Lee came to visit and kept Andi while Dave and I went to prom.  (Yes, we went to prom (as chaperones).  While at dinner (at her favorite place: Mooyah Burger) Andi said, "I am seeing a lot of silver cars."  Shane asked her again and she pointed to a silver car and said it again, "I am seeing lots of silver cars."

The day before, Andi got to spend an hour or two at work with Papa.  I went to pick her up after and while I was there I wanted her to see my cat, Blue.  They sat next to each other and I took a couple pic and Andi got to pet her.  Well, Blue decided she had enough and snapped at Andi.  When Shane and Anna Lee came over they were asking about all she did that week.  I asked Andi, "Did you see Blue Kitty yesterday at work with Papa?"  Andi said, "Yes, she bite me."  I guess she doesn't forget things like she used to.  Oh well, she still seems to really like cats.  But Pearl is her favorite.  She will even tell us that now.  "This is my teeny-tiny puppy Pearl Pearl.  I love her.  She is my favorite puppy!  She loves me."  Andi loves to give Pearl hugs and Pearl usually tolerates them.

4/15: We were at church and after the congregation got done singing a song, Andi said "Good singing everybody!" and started clapping her hands.  Also, Andi wants to be able to sing along in church but the only song she wants to sing while there lately is Lion King...."Aaaahhhhh Sevenyah....dedelalalala"  This is Andi's version and she belts it out!

4/17: When getting ready for bed, Andi grabbed a book, Bobby's Zoo.  A book that we borrowed from the library and had only read a few times.  She grabbed the book and I thought she was going to ask Dave or I to read it, but instead she said, "No, I read it."  She sat down, opened it up and shocked us when read entire book, word-for-word! 
I absolutely love it when Andi will run to me, arms stretched out and exclaim, "Mommy!" when I go pick her up after work.  melts my heart and brings me such overwhelming joy.  Can completly turn a ho-hum day into a wonderful one!
Soemthing else that I think is adorable is when I will be waiting for her (to give her something or put on pajamas, etc.) and Andi will say in such a sweet tone, "I'm coming, Mommy..."
 
Love this girl more than words can express!