I can't believe my last post was about Afton saying her first word.......which ended up being her only word for a good 4 months, but now she has LOADS of words and as I'm sure you all know, she really likes to chat it up. Of course she has favorites and what she talks about more than anything else is "Uncle Bobby". It's so funny because for the longest time her obsession with Uncle Bobby was in words only as she was not very nice to him in person, but now she's decided he's the BEST EVER! It helps that when Bob and Kristin watched her for our wedding anniversary (yep, that happened too, 4 years!) we came to get her and she was in heaving in the back yard playing ring around the rosey's and many other darling "Uncle Bobby" games that she talks about wants to play all the time.
Afton has figured out all sorts of amazing and adorable things. Here are just a few examples since it's been much too long to go into much detail on her amazing skyrocket of development over the last 5 months or so.
1. She closed a book a few weeks ago and looked up and said.."AMEN"
2. She calls Justin's parents "Baka Baka" and my Mom just "Baka" but it's warping to sound more like "Chewbaka" - so darling
3. She's heavy into cars, but interestingly she notices the make of cars rather than the variety. For example, whenever she sees a Mazda logo she says "DADA CAR!" and points to it, even if it looks NOTHING like Justin's car, she just notices the Mazda emblem, so our car rides are full of announcements about "Dada Car, Cousin Car, Baka Baka Car, Momma Car!!"
4. She sings her bedtime songs with us.......it might just be the cutest thing that's ever happened
5. Her sweet friend Finley bought her a book for her b-day called "The Pigeon Want's a Puppy" - she is IN LOVE with this book, and we read it multiple times a day - she reads it with us...i.e...she has it memorized!
6. SPARKLE SHOES!! - They have almost taken over bunny's place for best item in the world. I had to pay a grip to find them in her next size because she seriously asks for them right when she wakes up in the morning.
7. She is great at inventive play and loves to get anyone who is willing to play with her....favorite games....."ready set go!" followed by a race but Afton for some unknown reason says "bucket..set..GO!", she loves coloring on her new table (literally on the table), bubbles are still tops, anything involving water, and number one is cousins, she just can't get enough of those kids.
8. Picture explanations - Afton has insanely gorgeous huge brown eyes, she sometimes get mad when Mom tries to take her picture so I had to post a pic of her angry face, she LOVES sucker's - and only gets one a week if she's lucky, which usually ends up EVERYWHERE as displayed in the above photo. She's had a rash on her face that comes and goes but doesn't stop her from looking adorable in that little black polka dot dress. Stace (who she talks about all the time) got her the most incredible Nike's ever made and she wore them this one time in the picture to my dismay. Had to put in a picture of the yellow dress of love and dreams from Aunt Care and some pics from her lightly attended but super fun birthday party where we had a doggy theme with real live dogs invited and she had a BLAST, and got a cute table and chairs (yea, so I sat on one of the chairs as she frequently instructs me to and it's broken now, but she enjoyed it for a good week or so before that happened).
I'm starting to realize this list could go on for days so let me get to the good stuff that you really want and post some pictures and videos and tell you all how much we love you, miss you, and want to kiss you!
(I downloaded a few videos but it takes too long to do them on the blog so check my youtube channel where I downloaded LOADS of adorable videos for you all to get your Afton fix)
http://www.youtube.com/user/carolinesrad#p/a
