Random Pics and Subtle Hints

I was having a moment of feeling like everyone must be really sick of seeing pictures of Sloan. Then I realized there are really probably only three people that read my blog (my mom and two sisters) and they like my picture updates of Sloan. So for my three readers, I love you and miss you. Here are some cute pics of Sloan and a subtle hint to update your blogs because I miss all my cute kiddos :)!!

Getting a life size Minnie from Grandma.



Doing what she does with everything stuffed...giving it a big bite on the nose.





All tuckered out.



Yes, this is how she sleeps. Notice "White Bear" is not so white from the neck up? That is because Sloan is obsessed with biting his nose and ears. She actually bites and shakes her head, much like a dog with a chew toy. I can't tell if it is out of love or if she is getting her pent up anger out. Either way, as you can see, poor White Bear takes the brunt of it.





Helping Grandma get ready.

She Didn't Learn This From Me...

I won't name names, I'm just saying Sloan didn't learn this from me!

Zoo Train

As I have said many times, Sloan is obsessed with Signing Time. One signing time, called Zoo Train, is a particular favorite. A couple of Saturdays ago we decided to take Sloan to the zoo. We weren't sure if she would really get it or appreciate it, but she totally did. We told her she was going for a few days prior and all day Saturday she kept saying "zoo, zoo." When we got to the zoo Sloan signed all the animals she knew and imitate the sounds of all the rest. We had a lot of fun. Not to mention how great it is to be able to go to the zoo in the middle of January (don't be jealous all my Utah and Charlotte friends). Here are some pics from our outing.

She's a Smartie

It seems like overnight Sloan has started to pick up on all the things we have been trying to teach her. I guess the endless hours of reciting our ABC's, 123 and our constant signing are finally paying off. Here is some really cute video of Sloan showing off a few of her new "tricks."

Merry Christmas!!

Yep...that pretty much sums it up! Hope you are all having a lovely holiday season!

Halloween, Thanksgiving & Christmas

Because I am a slow blogger, I decided I would combine all three holidays into one post. Well I take that back, I am sure there will be multiple Christmas posts, but we can consider this part 1.

HALLOWEEN

For Halloween Sloan was a cute little bumble bee and Lee was the bee keeper (what was I you ask? I was a party pooper...I hate Halloween). We only visited one house and mostly it was for "effect" to say we did it. But since Sloan doesn't eat candy we decided one house was more than enough.

Despite the fact that I am the Halloween Grinch, we did do some fun things.





We went to the Pumpkin Patch and picked out pumpkins.







We carved the pumpkin.



We went to a Halloween party.





And we went trick or treating.







My cute little Bumble Bee.

THANKSGIVING

It is really hard for me to be away from my family for Thaknsgiving. But we did have a really great time with Lee's family. We ate lots of yummy food and I even did a little bit of the cooking (shocking I know!).






Christmas-Part 1

After Thanksgiving we helped Grandma Sally decorate her Christmas tree. Since Lee and I have always lived away from family, we always spend the holidays somewhere else. Because of this, in our 71/2 years of marriage, we have never had our own Christmas tree (sad I know!). But this year, we wanted to start the special tradition of decorating our Christmas tree. Since we are living with Lee's parents right now, we had to make do with decorating their tree. We bought Sloan her own ornament and let her put it anywhere on the tree she wanted (well with my help, she is still a little young to totally grasp the concept). We had a really great time decorating the tree and Sloan thinks all the sparkly lights are pretty awesome. It was great kick off to my favorite season of the year! Now the fun of trying to keep a one year old from touching the shiny, sparkly, tempting tree begins :).

Walking

Sloan has been walking for a couple of weeks now, but as usual I slack. I am pretty convinced that much like me, Sloan needs to be the best at whatever she does. I think she waited so long to walk because she wanted to be really good at it first. She really had the ability to do it over a month ago, but just didn't want to. One day she just decided out of the blue that she was going to do it and she has been really good at it ever since.

Sloan is also signing a ton and talking a lot too. She says mom, dad, dog, dee (odie), frog, socks, shoes, choo choo, plane, bird and her new word of the night is ho ho ho (we thought we would teach her that one for Christmas but she caught on much quicker than I anticipated). She is really good at listening and repeating. Guess it's time to start watching what we say.

Sidenote:
I have tried to upload some really cute video of Sloan walking for like a week (which has made this post even later than it originally started out being). So one day, when I become slightly less technically stunted, hopefully I will figure it out and be able to post it.