February 9, 2011 (because i'm too lazy to think of a real title)

 Happy February! I am SO ready to be done with winter. seriously it has been so COLD and windy lately. bleh. here are some pictures of piper to warm your heart if you are also suffering from terribly cold temperatures.

Here is piper watching a show. she is so cute! she does cute stuff every day and i wish i took more pictures. it is funny how when she was so little, we took A MILLION pictures of her like every day! and she didn't even really DO anything. and now she does cute stuff all the time and i don't take nearly as many pictures. i've been working on it though. the first step was replacing the batteries in the camera. seriously, lithium batteries have changed our life. but then when they die (which they eventually do) i am so lazy about changing them.

Here is piper's braid. she was in her high chair and thus strapped down so i could more easily braid. not to mention, she was paying way more attention to her cheerios. but anyway, i think it is so cute! she ruined it shortly thereafter by walking around with a box on her head "hiding" from me...

This is a custom-built sofa and matching ottoman set for Woody and Jessie. i'm pretty sure it was destroyed like 10 seconds after this picture was taken...by none other than Buzz Lightyear and his sidekick, Piper.

Piper apologized for ruining their new couch by giving them kisses. so cute! sometimes she makes them kiss other people...or each other.

piper frequently spends half the day with peanut butter and/or jelly on her face. oh well.

helping mommy clean out a cabinet...with her elmo slippers. she tries to choose these for her shoes almost every day (unless i just choose shoes for her and don't let her see these).

Piper is getting so close to being 2 years old! a little more than a month and a half away. crazy. She is really into toy story still. and mickey mouse clubhouse. brett tries to push this Timmy Time show but it is seriously unwatchable. bleh. so boring. there is no dialogue! She's also into Tinkerbell, who she calls Bell, not to be confused with Belle, who she also recognizes.

i feel like i spend a lot of time translating piper-speak into full english because i spend so much time with her and understand what she's saying most of the time. she says lots of words, but it's kind of like she has a Baby Accent.

our current battle is bed time. we've been realllllllly big pushovers with bed time her whole life and we're trying to break her of her need to fall asleep in someone's arms or while watching Finding Nemo or The Office or anything else. We're trying to teach her to fall asleep in her bed, so hopefully by her second birthday she'll be falling asleep on her own. we've still been sitting or laying by her the last couple nights until she falls asleep, but it is definitely progress.

our other battle is food. piper is SUPER picky. she JUST ate her first chicken nugget this week. seriously, what kid doesn't eat chicken nuggets. i never thought i'd WISH my kid would eat more chicken nuggets. She loves breakfast foods (cheerios, oatmeal, waffles, raisin toast...) and rarely will even TASTE what we're having for dinner (with a notable exception being salad with vinegar and oil, which she likes. weird, no?) so we've been trying not to give in so much and trying to get her to at least taste new things without scaring her away from dinner altogether. it is a fine line.

next battle: potty training.