Our afternoon out

So me and Allie Kate went to froggys this afternoon after her nap (a whole other story about how awful it has been trying to get her to go to sleep the past week or so) to get everything set up for her bday party and to play! She has been telling me for a while that she wants her birthday to be at "the jumpy ting" :) then she narrowed it down to froggys after Heath took her there one night to play.

She was so excited to get to play...but momma is 24 weeks pregnant so it makes it kinda hard climbing around in there. So after I slid a few times I told her if she wanted to slide more she was going to have to climb up there by herself and I would catch her...and she did a BUNCH of times I was so proud of her she normally tends to be a clinger and only go if I went with her.

Look at that sweet girl :)

Climbing up all by herself!

This is her candy necklace she "won" at froggys and she literally had that candy from ear to ear and under her little neck...but she LOVED it :)

After playing at froggys we went to eat dinner just the two of us and came home and rode bikes (not me just her haha). I love my girl!

She has always been hilarious and still is and is super sweet and loving most of the time but she has been having a hard time lately going to sleep and with saying ugly things (she has started yelling "no" and "I don't like you" or " I don't love you") and it drives me bonkers but I think/hope she is teething and this will pass soon :)

Life in the Vaughn house :)

So life has been a little fast paced in the Vaughn house in the past few weeks (well really for the past few years to be honest :) We have had so much going on that I forget to blog and then by the time I remember to do it and get this awful old laptop up and running its a month or two since the last time I blogged. I am going to have to improve...this blog is supposed to be for me to remember things about my sweet baby (soon to be babies). So...I have also been slacking on taking picture with my good cameras, it's just so easy to whip out my phone and take pics and video! So a lot of these pics are from my phone (I'm ashamed).

Holding the mail (she loves to get packages just like me and wants to carry them around)

carrying her purse

We have had to go to pottery barn kids a few times recently and she LOVES it there...she will just play and play!

Cheesin at herself in the mirror (she was on the "phone" with Nana)

Out to eat for Nana's Birthday!

Out to eat for Nana's birthday

Eating at cracker barrel after Allie Kate requested it and then off to the splash pad :)

Allie Kate singing to her VERY favorite song right now (and has been for a while) "Bye Bye Binky"

I'm not sure if the video will work on here

She wanted to put make up on (I like the natural look on her better :)

My sweet heart

We went to a birthday party for a little boy named Brody and she got a small finger nail polish in her goody bag and she has been painting fingers and toes like a crazy woman (the polish was gone after one day and I'm not exaggerating!) If you had finger nails or toe nails she made sure they were painted....four times :)

She even had to take the fingernail polish with her on the boat at the lake

After about 4 coats of polish :)

I think this picture is so funny...she had to poo poo so naturally she needs entertainment and grabs the ipad to play a game or two to pass the time...what happened to books or magazines?

At my 23 week check up...as soon as the Dr. came in the room Allie Kate raised her sweet little hand up and said "Where have you been?" haha then continued "We been waitin and waitin and you never come here"

We have also started on Ava Grace's room :)

Trying to decide on curtains for the room :)

Allie Kate admiring the big picture of herself (no it's not going in there I was just seeing what it would look like with a frame on top of the night stand)

This is going under her window

Her dresser

I just picked this up yesterday I had it made for the nursery. My Rue used to sing this little song to me all the time when I was a little girl and I sing it to Allie Kate all the time now and it's just special to me! And I LOVE how it turned out!

This little night stand was my Rue's and I had it redone to match Ava Grace's room :)

Her iron crib that I LOVE with her curtains laying in it! I said we were starting not finished :) It's coming along though and I love it so far!

Meanwhile....

23 and 1/2 weeks :)

Daddy and Allie Kate before church this morning

Mommy and Allie Kate before church this morning

The sweetest girl in the world (most of the time) before church this morning!



More phone pics!

I am awful at keeping up with everything I feel like most days I am running around like a chicken with its head cut off! So these are random pictures from my phone!

She has really gotten into wanting her fingernails and toenails painted and these took me FOREVER! They are hot pink with white polka dots and I was so proud of them :)

Our matching toenails after our pedicure!

She is obsessed with band aids right now and wants to put like 400 on each baby!

We were cleaning out our spare bedroom to turn into Ava's room and she had a ball helping me clean out my jewelry box and she decorated her baby

With her fake eyelashes from my old jewelry box (she thought she was something haha)

chuck e cheese!

The first day with no passy and I told her we could go get a cake pop!

Mcwane your brain!

Park time! We were literally the ONLY crazy people there...it was literally like 101 degrees!

What I got to snuggle with before work she had her first accident with big girl panties so she got in the bed with me :)

Big girl panties at bedtime and bye bye passy!

So this past weekend Allie Kate told me that she wanted to wear big girl panties for her nap...she has been potted trained since she was just a little over 2yrs old during the day but still wore pull ups at night. She has been waking up from her naps and bedtime dry as a bone so I figured why not? She did great and has moved on to big girl panties at bedtime and naps :) Whoo hoo! She has only had 2 nights with panties so far but so far do good...no accidents :) I am so proud of that sweet girl! And she is pretty proud of herself too :)

In her little July 4th outfit

  So passy has been getting a little out of hand lately...it's like crack to her she is obsessed and will pitch fits for it (she is supposed to only get in the car and at bedtime) and it has just been time for a while for it to go. S last night we sat at her little "new table" and wrote a letter to Santa telling him we didn't need them anymore and his reindeer can have them and hopefully he will send us a good prize ;) I kept telling her that they will be gone and let her have it for a while this morning and then we gathered them all up (surprisingly she was super helpful on telling me where they all we and helping me find them all and she was so excited) put them in a ziplock bag, put our letter to Santa in it and took them to the mailbox to be taken to the north pole!

The note she helped me write :)

  She didn't even act like she cared she was pretty excited...but I knew knew nap time might be a different story...and it was she looked at me in her little bed and said "uh-oh we forgot passy" and I told her they were all gone the reindeer had them now and she laughed and laid down but she is now in there singing and playing with her newest baby (a stuffed kitty named "meow") I guess the passy did kind of plug her mouth so she wouldn't really lay back there and talk that much she would be busy sucking it. But hey I am not complaining at all I figured it would be all out war for a week or so...so I will take talking and signing anyway over crying!

The next day when we woke up a wrapped present was sitting on the kitchen table from none other than SANTA!!! He came all the way from the North pole to bring Allie a new babydoll!! And she was *SO* excited!!

Her new baby doll Penelope :)

UPDATE: Allie Kate is still doing great without her passy (she does take a little longer to go to sleep than usual but she hasn't really even asked for it! The first day was rough it took her a good 3 hrs to fall asleep without for her nap but she is doing better now and it only takes her between 10-30 minutes to go to sleep (we are still adjusting though so hopefully she will get back to her routine) and she is still doing fantastic in her big girl panties :) She has only had one accident in about 2 weeks! GO ALLIE :) Mommy's proud!!!