She's turning 3

She babbles.

She's sweet.

She hisses when she's mad.

She loves yogurt.

A little on the feisty side.

She loves her sisters.

Here are several of her 3 year pictures.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day, everyone! 

As always, I love it when the girls will let me take pictures of them. Audie was my main model this time around. I really wanted to get good ones of all 3 of the girls- to have a set, but Corinne didn't want her picture taken. I got one cheesy smile from her. Selah cooperated a bit with some coaxing. 

Of course Audie's serious streak can only last a few minutes. It doesn't take long before her urge to fart around pops in. I love this side of her. She makes herself laugh, and I hope she always considers herself funny! I know since she is my kid, she is probably more (or, only) funny to me. But I laugh when I see this pictures.

This is the only smile Corinne would give me

And Selah gave me a few minutes to take pictures of her.

And for some exciting news, (since most of you readers know by now anyway) We're getting a puppy!! Probably in another week or so, we will have our pup picked out, and I will be able to post a picture. I'll give more details then. Everyone but Corinne is excited. She (like me) is a cat person. Hopefully her mind will change when the pup actually gets here, but for now, Zona is her true One and Only. Stay Tuned!

Selah on the pot

Just moments after I took this picture Selah took off her hat, waved it around and said, "Yee Haw!"

At Breakfast

Audie left a note in our fruit bowl....

"Something tasty to eat"

And Selah eating her breakfast bowl of cereal

And her beloved "boose box". (Juice box)

Happy Birthday, Selah!

Selah turns two today! This morning I was remembering what happened the Tuesday that she was born. I have been thinking about how she's not a "baby" anymore, I don't really carry her around on my hip as she makes her own way around. She keeps up with her sisters and has turned from the "little sister" into being included in what her older sisters are doing.

She has also molded the outgoing personality, saying, "HI!" and "BYE!" to random people in the store, also saying, "THANKS!" as we leave a cash register after paying for our items. She doesn't seem to be afraid of much, jumping off of couches and climbing everything. 

She also has a sweetness about her, she loves to give hugs and will stop in the middle of something to give a kiss. She has her "favorite" people that she goes out of her way to snuggle with, too.

Happy Birthday, Se!!

Picture Outtakes

Keeping with the tradition of birthday pictures, we did Selah's two year old pictures this evening. (She doesn't turn two until Thursday, but the forecast is calling for rain and maybe snow, so I wanted to get them out of the way instead of delay them) While I won't share the favorites in this post, I will share a few of the outtakes. Her personality definitely shines in these photos...you can see that she is quite the little rascal.

Side note: Shelby and Lauren...I thought of you all evening as I chased this two year old around hoping for at least one good picture while battling the wills of a two year old. :) It happens to all of us!

With some crazy faces, here is my Selah.

Saying Goodbye to the Pacifier

It was time to say goodbye to the paci. I decided to use the helium balloons again since it worked so well with Audie. (See Audie's pacifier balloon launch here)
Even though Selah and Audie were approximately the same age when we got rid of the pacifiers, I felt like Audie was so much more aware of what was going on than Selah was in the process. As you can see from Audie's pacifier launch, she waved goodbye, and paid attention to what was going on. I had a harder time with Selah, making sure she really knew and paid attention to her pacifiers sailing away. I wanted her to have the memory so when she asked about a paci she remembered that she watched her pacifiers fly into the sky.

So Thursday we went to the store and picked up some balloons. Then, came home and gathered all of the pacifiers to tie them to the balloons.

She sucked on them to the last minute...even with the balloon ribbon attached.

Then we let them go. Fail. Two of the three balloons got stuck in the tree. Selah ran to the tree and said,
"paci! paci!"

She has asked about the pacifiers since Thursday, but after we tell her that they went away on balloons she does seem to remember. She has been okay without them though. So far so good!

Selah is one!

May 2nd left as soon as it came around! We celebrated Selah's first birthday. Can't believe it has been a year already! She is such a sweet little baby and we love her so much!

Here are a few snapshots of the day-

We set Selah down to have her first birthday cake. She was cool with it at first...

 Really? This cake is all for me?
...okay, I'll try it.

And from there it went south.
Somewhere in between Matt giving her a lick from his finger and her getting some on her leg, she wasn't having it.

 She bee-lined out of there as fast as she could. Never having eaten even one bite.

After she got cleaned up, she was happy again.