A Spot for the Scotts

Friday, April 1, 2011

Getting Ready for Spring!!!

Natalie is 18 months old now and she's getting so big! She is learning to use the little potty and she's learning lots of new words. She can basically repeat whatever we say. She loves to read books, play with Lily, play outside, and has fun with her cousins and friends. She really is developing her own little personality and has definite likes and dislikes. She is very independent and maybe a little stubborn sometimes. She is also becoming more and more loving all the time. She loves to give hugs and kisses and hold hands. Her hair is getting so long and seems to get curlier every day. It drives me crazy when it hangs in her eyes, but I just can't bring myself to cut it. It's almost long enough to go behind her ears now! We're working on keeping it pulled back most of the time but she always has a way of pulling out the ponytail!

We are also sad to say that Darran's grandmother - Grandma Mickey - passed away this month. Natalie did have a wonderful opportunity to meet and spend time with lots of relatives on the Scott side of the family. It was good to see everyone.

Here are a few pictures of our recent adventures. We are missing a few pictures from when my Uncle Jim and Aunt Anita and Amanda came and also of Sesame Street Live, but hopefully we can add those later!

Here is Natalie reading with Grandpa

Natalie playing the piano

Being silly???

Riding her little horse

Wearing Daddy's shoes - she put them on all by herself

Natalie and Molly - Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Daddy and Natalie at the Wichita Mountain Wildlife Refuge

This is what happens when Mommy tries to take a picture with Natalie

Chewing on her paci - she prefers to chew on it rather than suck on it - and only at nap times and bedtime.

After a fun evening at Sesame Street Live - and no, it didn't rain. She just likes carrying around her rain boots!!

Snuggling before bedtime

Natalie with Caden being silly

Trying to get a picture with everyone in it - easier said than done with a toddler involved!

Reading with Caden

Playing with Brianna

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Snow Days!!!!!!

We have enjoyed the snow lately! Here are a few pictures of our "snow day" activities!

We enjoyed visiting Darran's sister and her family and had a blast playing with Natalie's cousins! Here we are at the basketball game!

Looking at snow piled up on the windows

Natalie "helped" us file papers.

Natalie enjoyed reading her books and sitting on the front windowsill

Just being silly

"Helping" clean out cabinets

Since Natalie was a little scared to play outside in the snow at first, we brought in a big bowl of snow and played with it in the kitchen floor (good idea, Mendy!).

Building a baby snowman

Being silly again!

Playing outside

Playing outside by the big drift in the driveway and front yard

Since my last post, Natalie has really started saying LOTS of words! Her favorite new words are "donkey" (that she saw at grandma and grandpa's), "mine," (which is LOADS of fun to hear over and over), "light", "bubbles", "bumpy", and many many others! So fun to listen to her learn new words!

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!.......a little late

We had a wonderful Christmas and a great New Year! Natalie is now 16 months old and is growing like a little weed! This year, she really enjoyed Christmas and was really able to enjoy opening the presents and playing with the boxes and with all the paper. Santa came to our house this year and we were able to see both the Scott and the Kellogg families. We also had a great time teaching Natalie about the true meaning of Christmas and the birth of our Savior. And Darran and I have enjoyed several "date nights" recently thanks to Granny and Papa and Gram and Grampa!

As we look back on the last year, it is hard to believe that Natalie has grown and changed so much. At her 15 month appointment she weighed 24 lbs, 13 ozs and was 32 inches tall! These stats put her between the 75th-90th percentile! The pediatrician says she is strong and healthy!

She is beginning to become a slightly pickier eater now and is showing some definite food preferences - basically she loves bananas and cheese and tolerates most other things. She occasionally has also enjoyed sweets - something new that we have begun to let her have in small amounts. She really likes popsicles and apple pie and cheesecake. We may regret letting her try them but she sure did enjoy it! She is also cutting new teeth all the time. I actually need to count how many she has now. She has several molars on each side and can really chew well now. She says "hot" and "cold" but she thinks most of her food is "hot" and blows on everything before she eats it. She also likes to brush her teeth, but as with most activities now, she prefers to do it herself without any help. She can get up on the couch and most of our chairs all by herself and likes to help dress and undress herself. She gives lots of hugs and kisses (still mostly to Lily Dog, but occasionally to us or her baby doll). She still loves to play outside when the weather permits and loves to play on her new slide.

She keeps us laughing and smiling a lot and has done several really cute things lately. On Darran's birthday she helped him blow out his candles repeatedly because they were the trick candles that kept relighting. Although we have no pictures of this we have a great video! She also gave every animal in her animal book kisses tonight as we read about them. She loves to rock and cuddle and imitates a lot of what we say in her own little language, but also with new real words each day.
Here are some of our favorite picks from the last month or 2!

Daddy and Natalie and our Christmas tree