TRYING ON CHRISTMAS DRESSES!

IT'S FAIR TIME!

I found my Christmas present! Oh Boy, a pony ride! Petting the pony! Look out I'm driving! Watching the sea lions! Checking out the reptiles!

GYMNASTICS TRYOUTS!

Aliya got to try out Gymnastics tonight. She had fun for the most part, but was a little unsure of doing anything with Teacher Heather. She really liked running and jumping along the long tampoline after a couple times, going down the slide and playing in the balls! So she is signed up to go every Wednesday night in October.

MORE WORDS & TEETH!

Aliya also learned two new words today. She found a bright orange Halloween shirt with a cat on it and she had to wear it, and was saying cat not long after putting it on. She also noticed I was eating a candy pumpkin today and thought she needed a bite so after telling her it was a pumpkin a couple times she also was saying pumpkin! She is also doing very well putting several words together and often says "There's a ball" or "Where's the ball"? She has also started saying baby in the last week or so and will ask for her baby or says it when she sees one.

Aliya got started getting three molars in August. The bottom one is pretty well through. The top two poked through right at the end of the month and are very slowly working their way in (as all of her teeth have, they take forever). Now a bottom molar of the other side is just about ready to poke through (that will be #12). The poor girl they have been really hurting her. The last two days she had a big flap of skin just hanging there and her gum is just swollen and soft. It made our mouth hurt looking at it!

PICS OF THE WEEK!

ALIYA FINALLY THINKS HER COSTUME IS OKAY!

We bought this costume last year at the outlet malls for $3.00 and figured even if she didn't wear it for Halloween she could play dress up. The first time I brought it out to see what she thought of it she screamed and cried, she wouldn't even try it on. She just kept shaking her head no! I waited a little while then put it on her and same thing she screamed and cried and tried to rip it off her. For the next week eveytime I would show it to her she would shake her head no at it! So I left it laying out for the last week or so and today she finally let me put it on her!

MAKING SUGAR COOKIES!

Cuting them out!
Look it's a roar! As Aliya would say!
My favorite part, shaking the flour everywhere!
I better try one!
HMMMM! So yummy!
I did good! I better eat some more!
Putting sprinkles on!
Yeck with that let's eat em'!
Oh no it broke!
Look at my messy hands!
More!

SILLY BATH GIRL!

PLAYING AT THE ARBORETUM!

WALKING ON MY HANDS IN SO MUCH FUN!

This is Aliya's new favorite thing to do! Well, besides her recent OBESSION with her BALL PUPPET SHOW (from Baby Einstein My First Signs). It's not the whole show mind you, it lasts maybe thirty seconds and she wants to watch it over and over and over. She just points at the TV... BALL, BALL, BALL.. until you play it and then laughs and laughs. And if you don't get the message she graps the remote and says BALL, BALL, BALL until you do! :) And if she isn't asking for the BALL show it's BLUE... as in Blue's Clues.