Princess Update (Almost 15 months)

Time is flying by and my baby is now a toddler. She has the cutest smile, and loves to laugh and play. She is a huge fan of outside and cries whenever it is time to come in.

She loves to go on walks and look at the flowers, sometimes she picks them, (oops) which I try to keep only to our own yard, but it's so cute, and luckily the neighbors think so too.


This is at the Tulip Festival at Thanksgiving Point. Princess got so excited about all the different flowers. It ended up being to stormy to enjoy the whole thing, but this exhibit was just out front.

Right after princess's bath, her hair is SUPER curly. It is very cute, and I wish the curls stayed better. She doesn't like to keep bows, or things in her hair so it is usually flying wild. She does love to see herself in the mirror when a headband or bow is on, but then she pulls it out almost immediately. I decided it wasn't work the effort.

She is learning to sign. She knows the signs for milk, please, thank you, bird, more, mom, dad, potty and bear. We are working on a few others, but those are the ones she uses everyday. She is also great at pointing and saying "this this"

Her favorite words to say are are Uh-oh, ouch, Mom, Da Da, this, sit, and go.

She is still having food allergy issues, which is one of the main reasons I have not had time to write on this blog. I have to make most her food from scratch since she can't handle preservatives. We are on a special Specific Carbohydrate Rotation Diet. She can only have the same food item every 5 days and she can not have any grains, or any of her other allergens (which is quite a list including Cheese, Apples, chicken, broccoli, tomato's, onions, red berries... etc) When she eats any of her allergen foods, she breaks out in rashes on her face, arms and legs. And when she eats grains her bowels do not work at all. It is hard, But I am learning so much. Friday I created a new bread recipe using cashew flour and pecans. It was YUMMY. I am very lucky that she is not also allergic to nuts or eggs. I am also making my own homemade 24 hr SCD Yogurt, which has really helped to heal her gut and stop the candida overgrowth.. When yogurt is made this way, all of the lactose is broken down by the good bacteria, and you end up with over 70 billion good bacteria per cup. Anyway I am learning a ton, but it is very time consuming and overwhelming. BUT SHE IS TOTALLY WORTH IT!

My Cute Kids! Being a Mom is the most wonderful, most difficult job anyone can have. I am so grateful that God has given me these 2 Miracle children to worry about, play with, and teach. They each bless my life in different ways.

Starboy made this picture holder at scouts for my Mother's Day Gift. He also gave me a couple beautiful cards that he made at school and church. He loves art.


I bought myself these two rose bushes to plant in my front yard. They are called Orchard's Pride roses and are a hybrid tea rose that was started in 2006. I thought they were beautiful. I just hope the place I want to plant them will get enough sun so they will grow.

Coach gave me this gorgeous knife set for Mother's Day. We have used my parents Cutco Knives for years, but now that we are moving to our new home I had told him I needed a set of my own. He had it all wrapped and had Princess help give it to me. I was very very happy.

We spent the weekend at the new house painting, and getting ready for the carpet in the basement. Things are coming together.




The front and back lawn is still quite dead, but hopefully with some more time it will start to revive. I have dug out all the old weeds from the flower beds and planted a few perennials and now my rose bushes will be plated. In time hopefully it will look beautiful.

I taught sharing time for Mother's Day. We had the children make pictograph cards. Drawing in pictures for some of the words to the song "I Often Go Walking" I got to share me example card with my Mom over Skype and sing to her, which is always a treat. I can't wait for them to be home from Hong Kong. The last year has gone by so fast.

I hope all of you had as wonderful of a Mother's Day as I did.

People have told me they are tired of seeing my April Fools Day salad and to PLEASE update my blog. It has been such a busy couple of months. The weeks just fly by. Life is really great for the most part, and I had a wonderful Mother's Day, so I thought I would share it with all of you.