31 Months Old Today

She loved meeting Mrs. W.

While Dayton is at school we will play with all of his stuff!
Looking up to Uncle Scott
I love her expression while looking in the huge mirrors at Mrs. W's house

A little static cling in the morning, those darn hats!
Dayton and his best bud Brandon played keep away from Myah! She loved it!
Until Brandon made her mad and she put him in jail (notice the hands behind his back!)
Cousins playing dress up!


Ok, I feel bad, I have not posted a monthly update in quite a while, we are in the 30's now! I feel like Myah is really growing up lately. She now weighs 29 lbs. and is 36" tall. She just amazes me with her vocabulary, we can pretty much understand everything that she is saying and can hold a conversation with her. She has the gift of gab, I just don't know where that comes from (wink)! She is starting to sing, I just love listening to her, she can sing all of twinkle twinkle little star and almost all of her ABC's. I must credit Daddy with teaching her the ABC's. She also loves listening to Dayton's "hi-pod" music, she cracks us up when she hears a song on the radio that she knows one of us likes she will yell out "Mommy's song, or Daddy's song or Dayton's song" and she is right! We are so glad that Miss Tiffany was able to add us to the class list this week, the class had filled up very quickly and I had to wait a few weeks to see if there was room for Myah. She was so excited to be back, we pulled up to the school and she squealed "My-nah's school!!!!". She calls herself My-nah by the way. We call her My-nah China as a nickname. Her strong willed personality still rears its ugly head but she is on a whole doing much better with "going with the flow". I realized the other night when we saw little Morgan that Myah was never that bubbly, giggly little baby like Morgan (and many others are). From the moment she was placed in our arms, she has kept us on our toes, trying to figure out what makes her happy. Sometimes it is very exhausting if I can be honest. I love this little girl with all of my heart and soul but sometimes she can push buttons I didn't know that I had! She is always one step ahead of me, I could never tell you ahead of time what her next move is going to be. For example, the big girl bed issue. She would not stay in it at all, she would not stay in her crib either so I got rid of it, there was not enough space in her bedroom for both of them, besides, I had to pull her crib away from EVERYTHING so that she would not mess with it. She would throw everything out of her crib anyhow. And take all of her clothes off. She has been sleeping in her pack and play for a month now, just so I can confine her a bit. I caught her playing in her closet and heard her fall after trying to climb up her closet shelves. So this week I decided that she was going to stay in her big girl bed, she came up with the notion that there are monsters on the floor so she won't get down. They must be nice monsters because she laughs about it. But it worked so I went along with it. And she has done beautifully with it. Until today. I caught her on the floor during nap and she had stripped the bed of its sheets and pulled the comforter out of the duvet cover, it was all unbuttoned. I don't know how she does it, again, back to the whole Houdini thing! So we get the good with the bad on most days.
I have to say though despite all of her crazy little antics, she is becoming a little sweetheart as well. I have to be some influence on her right?!! I love that she is feeling compassion for others, I see it when one of us gets hurt, she will run up and pat our back and say "Ok?" And she is starting to share much better than before. Except with her big brother of course, do they ever outgrow that? The love between her and Dayton is just heartwarming, he will beg to go and give her kisses while she sleeps, and she loves to give him goodnight hugs and kisses everynight. She can sure boss him around when she wants to! The girly girl in her is really starting to emerge as well, she loves tutu's purses, babies, and dress up. She is also starting to dance when the music is on, she has the funniest little moves, remember Elaine from Seinfeld, well, they share the same dance moves. She loves to climb, the other night she was on top of Dayton's loft bed, hiding I might add. I have to be on my game at all times with her! I love her for it though! She is her own person and she knows what she wants! She really loves to watch Toy Story, I still have the original Buzz Lightyear and Woody that were Dayton's and she plays with them all of the time. The other day I caught her at the top of the stairs with Buzz in her hands yelling "to infinity and beyond", I rescued Buzz before he met his demise! She also loves to watch Curious George, Sesame Street (her favorite character is "monster cookie"), and Charlie and Lola. We love watching her imagination at work, she is so funny, we love that she is really getting a sense of humor, it definatly helps in this family!

Well, that kind of sums up little Myah in a nutshell for now, we are constantly amazed at her changes and the degree of security she feels with us now, she knows that we are her family and that this is her safe haven. Nothing melts our hearts more than when she hugs us and tell us that she loves us or misses us, we have worked and waited so hard and long for her to accept us unconditionally and it has truly been worth every moment that we waited.