The Ashlan Adventures

This is going to be short and to the point!  Well, as short as I can make it because you guys know I'm long-winded.  :)

What Ashlan can do now:

-She can swing her leg over her bus by herself and climb on it. She can also get off by herself, and those who know what the bus looks like, know getting on and off is difficult because of the tall “handle” that is on the back of the bus! She has also pushed herself backwards with her feet a few times, so it's just a matter of time when she'll be pushing herself on it.  :)

-She gives high fives (when she’s in the mood!). She gave me one in the grocery store the other day in front of the cashier, but played shy when the cashier asked for one. Lol!

-She can stack multiple blocks in multiple sizes from her megablocks set on top of each other now.

-She will give Caesar his treat when I place one in her hand and tell her to give him it.

-She is in 18 month pants, though some are a little tight (and it’s even if she has a disposable diaper on!) I had to buy her some stretchy 18 month pants so they would fit around her big diaper, lol! She is in some 18 month onesies and some 24 month onesies, though the 24 months have some room to grow.

-One thing I love is that she now allows us to hold her hand when walking. It starts out as us leading her, and by the end, she is leading us (and usually pointing at everything in sight)!  She's been walking for a few months now, but she is so independent that she never wanted any help!

-As I said before, she has been running all over the place for the past few weeks. She actually let me hold her hand when we walked out of a store the other day, but she still prefers to explore everything alone. We went shopping the other day with Dan and she wouldn’t hold his hand because she was too busy pointing at things and looking around (and talking to herself), but at least she would hold mine. Whenever I let go of her hand or she yanked hers out of mine, she’d take off and we’d have to chase her around. We don’t do that very often, because she’s usually sitting in the cart, but she loves to explore different places on foot.

Daddy reading to our girl, something we do all day, it seems!

I love this pic, though a bit blurry.  She was walking towards me, reaching for her binky, and Dan was smacking her butt with an empty roll of wrapping paper.

Fun in the tub.  She loves bath time!

I love this outfit, jeans and a sweater.

We were getting ready to go out.  She wears little sock booties that have grips on the bottom because I've read it's better for them not to wear shoes when they're learning to walk (though she clearly knows how to walk by now, as most of my readers know).  We still have some real shoes but she doesn't wear them very often.  We plan to start that soon but I'm in no rush.

Reaching for bubbles at her BFF's (Audrey's) house.  :)  The girls are such good friends and really seem to like to play together.  They scare each other and are dare-devils...Audrey crawls on furniture and stands on it and Ashlan does face dives off of chairs (don't worry, she doesn't get hurt).  They are definitely entertaining and two peas in a pod.  :)

Ashlan couldn't make up her mind on which one she wanted so she just started pushing and then dragging them both.  :)

One of mommy's purses...idea courtesy of her BFF.  :)

She walks around with that thing everywhere, it's so funny!

Ashlan got herself on the bus (though she's backwards here), and she is bouncing up and down in this pic, hence the blurry photo. 

Loves bath time!  Sticks her hand in the water while the tub is filling up.

Her picture puzzles.  She loves them!  Still working on putting them in the right ones but she has the idea.  :)

Her new onesie, and my new favorite, "Mommy's girl".  By the way, the blurry pics are now a thing of the past.  I didn't like the new camera I bought so we took it back and got a new one.  The new one is MUCH better!!

Pushing her bus around...she put her milk on top of the seat and it magically stayed still the whole time she pushed it around, and if you've ever watched her, she can be quite violent sometimes with that bus, lol!  She puts everything on that seat, or under it because it lifts up, that she wants to carry around with her.  Such a smartie!  :)