A Princess Christmas! :)

Happy New Year!!

My baby girl has a new best friend! The love these girls have for each other is none like I've ever seen before! I don't know if it's because she is just growing up and able to play with other kid better, or if it's because they just like each other so much!


Her name is Chloe!

When they are apart, they talk about each other. Alexis even sings songs about Chloe, and says that all her toys belong to her. Chloe's Princess Castle, Chloe's bed, Chloe's phone...and at least every half an hour, Alexis asks if she can see Chloe.

I love that she has a friend that she loves so much! Her only other friend that she gets to see once in a while is Braelyn, and I have never seen her play with Braelyn like she does with Chloe. Maybe it's because Chloe is 4 months older than Alexis and Braelyn is 5 months younger than Alexis, and there is a big difference at this age, but I honestly can not get over how awesome they play together! I love it!



Christmas was AWESOME this year!! I should have had an entire blog post just for the holiday, because it was just so great! Alexis LOVED every second of it! Even Christmas Eve was great! I decided to start our traditions this year, even though she doesn't understand yet as to why we are doing certain things, but it was still a lot of fun!
In the afternoon, we made Reindeer Food to put outside for the reindeer while they are waiting for Santa! Alexis had so much fun making it, even though she didn't understand why we were doing it! But what 2 year old wouldn't have fun putting random things into a jar and shaking it around, and then dumping it outside!?



When we took it outside, Alexis was so excited! Although, when we were done, she cried, because she actually thought we were going to feed reindeer. The poor girl was sad because there were no reindeer outside, and didn't understand they were coming when we were sleeping.

And then before bedtime, we got out Milk and Cookies for Santa...and well...Santa better have gotten a ton of milk and cookies at all the other kids houses this year, because he sure didn't get any from our house...because Alexis ate his cookies and drank his milk and she enjoyed them! lol



Christmas morning was incredible! Santa definitely went all out this year and spoiled my little girl! But in my eyes, she is so deserving! If I can give her the world, she is going to get it! No one understands my spoiling her, and maybe it isn't such a good thing, but she is all I have in the world, and if I can give her everything that I did for Christmas, and still afford to live and not give up important things like food and shelter and still somehow live comfortably, then she will get spoiled! And spoiled, she was!


What it looked like after Santa showed up!

Her list of presents this year:
A Mini Grand Piano, 56 Burned Disney/Kids movies, 2 dress up dress/skirt, princess kitchen with princess dishes, food, toaster, princess phone, princess bed set, princess barbies, paint, dora laptop, rapunzel, princess hair accessory kit, 2 babies with accessories, fairy barbies, barrettes and hair elastics, pj's, cinderella story pillow, change purse, princess books, playdoh, etc.



It was definitely a Christmas to remember! She was so excited when she saw her Piano, and loved opening all her presents! And she loved them all!
After we were done Christmas at our house, we went to my parents house for the rest of the day, where we opened more presents, spent time with family and ate good food!
What an awesome day! :)

I got the best present ever! (Other than seeing my baby girl's bright happy face all morning!) The Photobook I made for Alexis (Her First Year), was nicely wrapped up for me, and let me tell you, it looks SOOOO awesome! I look at it every day, and can't wait to finish the 2nd one and get that one also.




A few pages!

And Alexis' room is now finished! All decked out in Princess! And let me tell you, my Girl is just loving it! Every time she runs into her room, she yells "My Princess Room!" The first time she saw it finished, was priceless! I Wish I had it on video! She ran around, freaking out about all her new stuff! "Whoa! What's this?!" and "pretty cool!" and gasping at everything! It was definitely worth all the time I put into it! :) She just LOVES it and everything in it!




The only difference in the room no, is that there are Princess Curtains and where the bear is, there is a Princess castle! Where I'm going to put there big bear now, is beyond me....lol

xoxo

No Sleep!

There's nothing better in the world than being away from your baby for 2 days, for her to come home to Mommy and be more than excited to see me. It's the first time that when Matt brought her home from being at his house for her two days every other week visit with him, that she ran to me when she saw me and hugged me, and I mean hugged me like never before, for a whole 5 minutes! And kissed me many times and said she missed me and she loved me. I took that moment in, and carved it into my memory, so that I will never forget it! It felt amazing!

Being away from her for those two days every other week is hard, but I definitely need the break most of the time. I hate to say that I enjoy those two days, to be alone, to do whatever I want to (even though the two days that she is gone, I am at work both days for 8 hours), and to get a whole night's sleep, without being woken up 40 times a night. So, yes, I enjoy the silence, but the best part about not being with her, is seeing her again when she gets home, and especially tonight, when she made me realize just how much she misses me too when she is gone to Daddy's.

She is growing up so fast! And not seeing her for two days...well it's hard to believe how much two days makes a difference! Even though she talked a lot two days ago, it seemed like she talked 10 times better tonight! I love that about children. How us parents have front row seats to the best show we could ever see - watching our babies grow up. I love it! Being a Mommy is the best gift I've ever dreamed of, and Alexis is just so amazing!

Ever since I took her crib away and gave her a big girl bed, sleeping has just not been good. I knew that it wouldn't be that great, and the change was going to be difficult for her, but I never dreamed of it being THIS hard! Her first couple nights were great. She went to bed good and slept all night, but was getting up at 5am. 5am turned into 430am and then 330am, and she started waking up to come and sleep in bed with me. She makes me sit next to her bed until she falls asleep. I don't mind doing that, but it sucks doing it in the middle of the night, when she really doesn't want to sleep in her bed anymore, but in Mommy's bed. The more tired I am, the easier to give in to her wishes of sleeping in bed with me are easier to give into. It's a tough battle, that I always lose. I have never been so tired in my life. Even when she was a newborn, and the 19 months she slept like crap, this month has been the roughest! And it sucks when she comes home from Matt's and he says she slept in her big girl bed there all night, with no peep. I don't understand!!!!!

So, she has a big girl bed in a big girl Princess room! And she loves it, and I love it. It's not officially finished yet, until after Christmas, but it's definitely cute!

I am so excited for her to experience Christmas this year! I can't wait to see her face on Christmas morning when she sees all her presents under the tree for her! I went all out this year! And it's awesome, I know she enjoys opening presents, as she has been to a few birthday parties over the last month, and helped open all of their presents!

My baby is VERY into Tangled right now. It's the first big kid movie that she ever really watched more than 5 minutes of, before she told me to turn it off. Every time I would try to turn off treehouse to watch a different channel, she freaked out, but Tangled....Oh Tangled plays in our house 5 times a day. She doesn't watch the whole thing of course, she comes and goes, but when it's over, she knows, and tells me to she wants it on again. She loves Rapunzel so much, she calls it "Mypunzel" LOL! She is going to LOVE the Rapunzel doll I got her for Christmas!

Anyways, I better to go to bed before she wakes up AGAIN!

xoxo

Princess Room

So, I am overly excited about changing my baby's room to her Big Girl room, which I will be doing for Christmas. I don't think I could express my obsession with it. It is kind of ridiculous just how insane I am about getting Princess stuff for her room. I have spent a lot of money on it already, and keep spending, spending, spending!!!

It's funny when I think about it. When she was a baby, I hated Princesses and didn't think I would ever want Princess stuff for my daughter. It was always going to be Pooh Bear, because I loved Piglet so much for her. And then one day, my friend Steph, who know I was looking for a plush chair, bought 2 at a yard sale. A yellow Pooh Bear one and a Pink Princess one, and well, I don't like Yellow, I like all things Pink. So I took the Princess chair, despite my dislike of Princesses, just because it was Pink. And that's what started the trend. Pathetic. I now have everything Princess and I am obsessed with it. OBSESSED!

I bought a Princess bedroom set back in July. As soon as I saw it in the Wish book I wanted it and had to have it! Lucky for me, someone was selling the whole set on a Yard Sale site on facebook for $280 and they were nice enough to deliver to me that day!






I love it!!! I am so happy that I was able to get it for so cheap and it's in excellent condition!
So I am excited to take all her baby things out of her room and make it a big girl room! It's going to look so nice! And she will love it! :)

Matt's Mom got her a table and chairs set that turns into a Castle tower when you put it together for Christmas! She is going to LOVE that!

I'm doing pretty good with the things I have for her room, decoration wise.

One of her presents! A pillow Story book!

Princess pillow

Princess Lamp!

Sleeping Beauty figurine

Princess Crown Pillow

LOVE this!!!

3 Princess hooks!

Princess wall decorations

Princess picture frame!

Princess wall decoration

Princess clock

Princess Curtains
Framed Princesses


I also have bedding, and getting another set for Christmas! And will be getting a Cinderella figurine in a few days! Also I know a girl who is getting rid of all her daughter's Princess things. I bought a lot of that stuff of her. She is going to sell me her daughter's Princess CD played and Piggy Bank that's in the shape of a Princess Castle, which I am excited about! Matt is supposed to look for a Princess rug for me at the Disney Store at the West Edmonton Mall...we will see if he actually gets one....

So I don't have A LOT, but I have enough! It's a good thing her room is as big as it is...lol

I'm excited! She is going to LOVE it!!!!!

Halloween!

Alexis had her first pumpkin carving experience this year! She didn't get her hands all goopy with the pumpkin goo. She tried sticking her hand in the pumpkin a couple of times, but then had to wash her hands right away. She had more fun just watching Grampa touching the goo! She is such a girl. Hates getting her hands dirty! Her contribution to our pumpkin was coloring all over him! She loved it though!








Halloween came and went, and it was so much fun this year! My girl had no idea what trick-or-treating was, yet she was super excited to go, when I told her about it!

She absolutely loves dressing up! She loves putting on princess crowns and tutu's and waving her wand around saying "abra cadabra" which comes out as some kinda jibber jabber that only a Momma could understand!

Alexis and Braelyn were fairy princesses together! They were so cute! Alexis was a punk rock fairy princess dressed in only pink and black (of course!!). I couldn't believe how cute she was once I got the costume on her!! The cutest thing I'ver ever seen! :)

That morning we went to Early Years in Brighton, with Nicole and Braelyn, the girls dressed up in their fairy costumes, and ready for the Halloween Parade at the retirement home in Brighton.


The girls are growing up so fast! Having pretend breakfast at Early Years!






I love that they are Best Friends!

They were a big hit at the Retirement home! All the elderly people loved Alexis! "Look at the cute little girl in the pink and black!" I was such a proud Momma that day!" She really was the cutest kid there! But I'm sure that's just my opinion, because I'm her Mommy! lol



Alexis LOVED Trick-or-treating! She still talks about it almost a week later! She calls it "treatin" She even asked me today if we could go "treatin again!" I'm so happy she had a fun experience! It was such a nice night that night too, which is awesome because usually it is so damn cold. NO winter coats this year, and walking without shivering. As a parent, I can only hope EVERY year is like that, but fat chance :( I remember trick or treating in the snow when I was little..lol So this nice weather was just great!

She loved going door to door. She wouldn't say trick or treat, or anything for that matter, until they gave her candy, which she put in her bag herself, and then said thank you as she walked away! SO cute! At least she has good manners!


Her first door!


2nd house.."you gonna give me candy?" look!





She had so much fun that night! She was tired though, walked as slow as a turtle to every house, so we only made it to about 12 houses in an hour, but she was in her glory! She'd do it every day if she could! hah!

I've started trying to potty train Alexis. She is pretty stubborn though and only has an interest on sitting on the potty every couple of days. I'm not trying to push it. I want her to do it on her own time and willingness to do it. She had a little tinkle the other night, and I was so proud, even though she forced it out because she dropped her book and I told her she could have it back if she peed and literally pushed it out of her. So I know she understands, she just doesn't want to do it.



She wont sit on her potty, she has to sit on the toilet, which is fine with me. I don't mind. She will sit there and listen to me read her Potty Book to her, and she listens so good to it, like she is taking it all in. I know one day soon she will pee on the potty, I just wish it was sooner rather than later. She always fights with me during diaper changes now. It's so frustrating. Potty training feels like one of the hardest thing so far. I kinda just can't wait for this step to be over...lol Although I still like her diaper bum, I am ready for little underwear!











Alexis got to see My Little Pony at the Mall. There, she got to see Zaphyn. She is the granddaughter of her Babysitter. Alexis loves Zaphyn! She is a year older than Alexis and learns so much from her! I wish they got to see each other more! Can you tell by the hug Alexis is giving Zaphyn, that she misses her, just a little bit?!



Alexis doesn't get to see friends very often. So I love this picture of her having fun with her friends! She had so much fun that day jumping and dancing around with Braelyn and Zaphyn! It was nice to see her as happy as she was to be around them!


The only picture I have of her and the Ponies!

It's so hard to believe that it's November already. Where did the year go to? I am looking forward to Christmas this year though! It's definitely going to be a big one for Alexis, and I am crazy excited to see her on Christmas morning :) it is fun playing Santa, and this year, she is getting spoiled from me!