Where does the time go?

   Taylor's 12th birthday is on Tuesday and I am SO excited!!! I am going to get her out of school a little early so that I can take her to get her nail and hair done!!! Then after Jason get's off we are going to take her to her favorite place to eat...Wasabi's!!! Yum!!! Her party is not until Saturday but I'm excited about that as well because Jason is going to a friends house to watch the UFC figh, so I have a few girl friends coming over to keep me company while Taylor's having her party. This will be the first night I have taken off of work since I have been back and I'm super excited to have a weekend night off!!! I have a TON of work cleaning the house to get ready for this party but I have plenty of time to do it!!

   Ariya gave me a kiss for the first time this past week. It was the sweetest thing! She just leaned forward and put her lips to mine. For a minute I thought I was going to cry!!! She has only given me a few kisses since then, stingy lil thing!!  I was singing 'Hush little Baby' to her one night and she kissed me like two or three times without me even asking!! lol she was probably trying to get me to shut up!!!
Now if I ask her for a kiss she bends her head down so that I can only kiss her forehead, smart lil baby!!! I am having so much fun with her!! If I didn't have health issues and pregnancy wasn't such a pain I would seriously have another!!

Sorry but I'm still being slack on pictures and videos!

Almost Forgot

In the last post I forgot to mention a few of the newest things baby Ariya is doing

   1.) Her new FAVORITE thing to do is to scream at the top of her lungs. Scream not cry and I don't mean when she's hungry or tired or wet, but during play time and especially when she is standing up.  If I'm laying on the floor with her she will come over to me, stand up and then spend a good 30 mins screaming and letting everyone know who she is! She has also learned that screaming gets her attention so she has also started screaming "ahhhhhhhhhh" if she is in her exersaucer and is ready to get out. It might sound annoying but it really is the cutest thing!! (I'll try to get video of this posted soon)

  2.) She thinks it's HILARIOUS if you tell her "No", as soon as she hears this word she will give you the biggest grin. I'm pretty sure she knows she has us wrapped around her finger already and all she has to do is show us that sweet one tooth smile for us to cave.  Oh and as with most babies her least favorite things to play with are her millions of toys. She would much rather be playing with everything else, like computer cords (that one is her favorite) or anything else she can get her hands on that she's not suppose to have. Needless to say she is starting to the the word "NO" more often.

   3.) She has found her thumb. She's almost 6 months so it's not like she just found her hands or anything (she likes to look at them while I'm giving her a bottle) but within the last few days she has mastered the art of popping that little thumb out and sticking it in her mouth. She occasionally sucks on two of her fingers but it's the thumb sucking I want to avoid most. Ever since she was born she has refused to take a pacifier (thank goodness) so this new thumb sucking really surprised me. I'm hoping it's just a temporary thing that she gets over quickly. Taylor never sucked her thumb or used a pacifier so that's not a road I want to travel down this time around.

   That's it for now. I'm sure she'll do something in the next few day and I'll absolutely feel the need to  post about

2012 Already??

Jeez where does the time go??
    Ariya is already almost 6 months old!!! I LOVE seeing how she is growing!! Even though I work every weekend because I have 4 days off I truly feel like a stay at home mom. Changing my schedule was one of the best things I could have ever done for my family!!
    Within just this last month she got her first lil tooth (which daddy found first...punk!!!) and I think she has another coming in cause she has been a lil fussy for daddy over the weekend while I was at work.
  She has also figured out how to go from a crawling position into a sitting position. Now I only work 3 days a week and OF COURSE she picked the time I went to work to figure this out for the first time...Thankfully daddy was nice enough to capture the moment for me!! Jason is really good about sending me photos or videos of her while I'm at work cause he knows I don't want to miss a thing!!! I can't tell him enough how much I appreciate him doing that for me!!! 
    2012 is here and we have a lot of things to look forward to in the next few months.
    Taylor's birthday is coming up this month and she will be 12yrs old. yikes!!! The crazy hormonal teen years are about to be knocking at my door!!!

 Sitting up for the first time while I was at work!! Lil squirt!!!

Thinks she's a big girl pulling up on things!!!

    My birthday is in March and the our 3yr anniversary is in April!! Oh and the most exciting thing we have planned for this year is in May! We are taking the kids to DISNEY WORLD!!!! I CAN NOT WAIT!!! I haven't been since I was 13!!