I can't believe it's December already!! And Ally turned 2!! Oops, I guess she's only one still. Freudian slip! She's discovered that screaming is fun. When she wants anything and can't have it imediately, she screams. When she wakes up at 1:00 am and wants held, she screams. When another kid at daycare is playing with a toy she wants, she screams (and then tries to take it away. sometimes she succeeds). When she has to sit still in her high chair to eat instead of wandering around the living room... you guessed it, she screams. Where did our little angel go?

But then she does so many non-screaming related things, it's like amnesia wipes it all away for a while. Like, her new favorite thing to do is to climb up on the couch and get chased from arm to arm. She can't really run very well on the cushions, so she trips and laughs cause you're "gonna get her". And when she make it to the other side, she turns around and leans back against the corner with a smug look on her face that says, haha I made it.

And she takes her little poeple and trys to put them in our mouths so we can have as much fun as she is chewing on them. We got her some Noah's ark animals and some others for her birthday. She searches through the pile of animals until she finds 2 that match and carries them around in each hand. Her favorites are the dogs. I think because she knows what they are (We only have one kitty, so she doesn't like it as much) She likes the aligators too, though so maybe not.

She loves chairs and wagons. We can't put away her boster seat because she thinks it's her easy chair. And we got out some Little Tyes trucks to play with the other day. One is a dump truck. We had to wire it up so that it wouldn't dump anymore because it kept dumping her. She kept sitting in it to play with her toys and falling out. And then, if anyone sits on the floor, it's likely she'll come sit on you to play. People are the comfiest reclainers!

We didn't have such a great birthday supper Wednesday. Ally's nap got interrupted at day care so she was kinda tired at supper. and of course we had the 5 inches of snow fall, so not too many people came - which was perfectly understandable. It took us a very long time just to get home from daycare which is usually a 15 minute trip. She fell asleep on the way home from Ryan's. I had to give her medicine though and that woke her up once we got home. After that 15 minute nap she was ready to play for another 3 hours. She didn't go tto bed until after 10. And we had a good Thanksgiving with most of Rob's family over for dinner. They were staying at a hotel in town, so we went swimming that night (and back Friday cause she liked it so much). Of course all her summer swim suits were two small... Aunt Ruth to the rescue. We had a suit Marley had outgrown (or maybe it was garage sale?) that was a little too big this summer so it fits her now. She had a blast splashing and chasing everyone in the water. Friday when we tried to get her out, she kept trying to squirm away and get back in on her own...which leads us back to the screaming...but it wasn't bad. She was just getting tired. So, we have had a busy couple weeks. It was good to see everyone, and those of you we didn't cathc for Thanksgiving and birthday, hopefully we can see for Christmas!