Shaylin is Getting So Big

I cannot believe how big Shaylin is getting. On Saturday Nathan and I went down to St George, and Shaylin stayed here with Nathan's sister. They said that she was really good, and she didn't even take a nap. She was sooo exhausted when we got home, but she had so much fun.
She played outside practically all day, because it was so nice.

I am so grateful to have family around that is willing to watch her, but that will change soon with us moving!

Creative Playing

I love to just sit and watch Shaylin play when she doesn't know that i'm looking. I love the things that she comes up with to do.

The other day we were in the living room and Shaylin was just over playing, and so I started watching her. And while she was playing she saw a hat on the floor so she picked it up put it on her head backwards and just kept playing.

So I got the camera and then she realized I was watching, but I managed to get a few pictures before she took the hat off.

I love this one!

They Know Exactly What They Want

I have mixed feelings about how smart Shaylin is. On one I love that she understands so much and that she is smart, but on the other it makes it hard to say no because she knows what she wants and how to get it.

Shaylin loves to have Nathan and I hold each end of a blanket and swing her around. So sometimes when she wants to do it she will get out a blanket and put it on the floor and lay down on it and jabber at us until we come.

It is really cute, however, it does get tiring sometimes because she never wants to stop.

I also love it that her hair gets all staticy

So Tiny

I love how small and creative Shaylin can be. She finds the most interesting things to keep her entertained.

The other day I did laundry so there was a basket of clothes on the floor. Shaylin found Nathans shorts in the basket and put them on. However, she only fit in one leg and her whole body fit in there. It was pretty cute.

Hiding in the Closet

Shaylin's new thing is when my bedroom door is open she will run into my room and hide in closet. She loves to go in there and just sit against the wall. She also learned how to shut herself in there and then open the doors again. So she has been playing peek-a-boo with me.

(Sorry about the fuzzy pictures, my camera had a smudge on the lens)

Johnny Appleseed

So I don't really know what Johnny Appleseed looked like, but the other day Shaylin came to me after playing in the kitchen cabinets with a bowl on her head and a strainer in her hands, and it just reminded me of Johnny Appleseed. I thought it was so cute. She loved it, she didn't want to take it off.

Easter Was Fabulous

So I know that Easter is long gone now, but I hadn't posted about it so I figured I would now.

Our Easter weekend was great! We started out by going to the Paragonah Easter egg hunt. (I grew up in Paragonah and that is where my sister was going and so that's why we went there instead of staying in Cedar)

I also love how few kids are at the hunt there. I didn't have to worry about Shaylin getting run over by all the other kids, and she didn't have to be super fast to be able to get any treats.

So she had fun at first picking up the treasures on the ground, but after a little while, since they hold the hunt for the babies on the playground, Shaylin just wanted to play. So she sort of lost interest and started climbing to the slide.

Despite her loosing interest Shaylin still got a prize egg and got a little camping chair. I was very pleased with this because Nathan and I had just recently been talking about getting her some kind of little chair.

She likes it too. While we were waiting in line to see the Easter bunny I pulled out her chair and she just chilled in it with her candy for a while.

I'm not exactly sure what it is that makes children so terrified of the Easter bunny or Santa Claus, but there is certainly something that is wrong. So of course here is her screaming Easter bunny picture that will go right along with her Santa Claus one :)