Milestones for Rachel

I was first putting these items in her memory book but I don't have any more spaces for this so I'm going to put this on our blog since it is like our family journal.  Milestones for Rachel:
1.  Can take her clothes off
2.  Sometimes she can put her clothes on (when she wants to)
3.  Loves to play in the mud
4.  Johnny Carino's is her favorite restaurant.  We have created a monster on this one.  We had a coupon to go eat at Chili's the other day and when Scott told her we were going to Chili's she said, "Well I'm not eating because I want to go to Carino's".  I laughed so hard because it was just so funny coming out of her but definitely something she would say.  She will tell you how it is.
5.  Can get out of bed to come to our room in the middle of the night.  She doesn't cry in her bed any more and that makes me so happy.  I am a softy though because if its a night Scott's at work I just let her sleep with me.  When Scott is home though she has to stay in her own bed.
6.  She likes dance class now.  We figured out that if I'm not in the room she will actually do what Meridian asks so I drop her off at class and go upstairs and work for my friends clinic.
7.  She loves to have us read Dr. Seuss to her now and will actually sit on our laps and not turn multiple pages until it's time to actually turn the page.  She loves the stories: Go Dog Go, The Best Nest(aka to Rachel Mr. Bird), and Are you my mother?(aka baby bird).  She has even memorized most of these three stories.
8.  She doesn't like to go to bed and we have to tell her every night what we will have to take away if she gets out of bed.  It starts with her big light, her iPod, and then her stuffed animals.  We usually don't have to do much after that.
9.  She loves to move the kitchen chairs so she can get to the counter tops.
10.  She is a total mama's girls.
11.  She loves her princess dresses.  We have gone out in public several times with them on.
12.  She tells me her best friend is Morgan.  (They fight like crazy when they are together but they love spending time together...go figure.)
13.  She has started to pretend lately.  She is always telling us about her "friend".  You ask her what her "friend's" name is and she says, "Friend".  So friend is in the other room, friend is outside and she needs to go find him, friend is the one who made a mess etc, etc, etc.
14.  She can now pick out her numbers.
15.  She has learned Stop and Go and that stop is red and go is green.  So now when we sit at stop lights she is watching for it to turn green and then tells me "Mommy go".  She is quite the backseat driver.

Funny Story to add to this post:
The other day I had to go work at ISU and I left around 7:00.  At 7:30 Rachel woke up and came to our bedroom door and asked, "Where's Mom?"  Scott said, "She went to work."  Rachel said, "Fine I'll be downstairs then."  This is so funny because when she wakes up its our custom to cuddle in my bed for a few minutes and she didn't want to cuddle with her daddy even though he was totally willing to cuddle with her.

St. Patrick's Day 2012

We usually don't do anything with St. Patrick's day but I decided this year we would at least do some green food for breakfast.  As the day went on and I saw all these posts on Facebook about Leprechaun's creating havoc in people's homes I was kind of like maybe next year I should probably figure out what exactly St. Patrick's is really all about.   So this is our breakfast today.

 Oh no what happened to my food????  Yep Green eggs and green pancakes with chocolate chips.  She eat the pancake but didn't go for the eggs. 

Are you serious!  Yes I am little one try it they are good.  :-)

If anyone can give me any points on what St. Patrick's is all about I'm up for the information and then anything fun that you do with your kids for this day would be greatly appreciated also.

Walking up the Wall

One of the things Rachel learned in Gymnastics the other day was that it is fun to walk up the wall.  I turned around today and this is what she was doing.  It's kind of funny.  I don't mind that she does this and just thought it was funny that she actually remembered it and likes to do it. 

Life's Hard Knocks

Well on Monday Rachel ended up learning a hard life lesson.  I was on the treadmill and I was telling Rachel to stay away from the treadmill.  Usually she will walk away and let me finish but today wasn't one of those days.  She kept trying to grab me and I was just kind of pushing her away.  Finally she went to grab my shorts and I moved out of the way while I was running on the treadmill and she ended up falling over and landed on the treadmill where it spit her into the wall but we only have about a foot behind the wall and so she was actually still on the treadmill with the track going around.  I jumped off and grabbed her off of it.  This is what her injury ended up looking like.  (Sidenote: Of course she was also running around in her diaper today because I couldn't get her in the tub and so I had taken her PJ's off so I could throw them in a load of laundry I was doing.)

OUCH!!

Yep we ended up having crying for about an hour and a 1/2.  It was rough but I think she has learned her lesson to actually listen to me when I tell her to stay away from the treadmill.

Scott then said today she had to learn the hard way again.  He had cooked a pizza for lunch and he told her to stay away from the stove top because the pizza stone was hot.  Well while he turned his back she moved a chair over to the stove and touched the rack that we use to bring the pizza stone out of the oven.  So now she got a burn on her hand. Hopefully she has learned her lesson the last couple of days.  If not we just might end up in the ER a few times because she doesn't believe us when we tell her not to do things.  :-)