dahlia isnt sure if she is a big girl or a baby, depends on her mood. if she is wearing her underwear then she will go in the toilet, but if she insists on a diaper, she will not go in the toilet. but i still consider her potty trained, she knows what she is doing, she just wants to be like her little brother sometimes.

 

 she likes to be like her mommy and daddy too of course, like taking a purse with her to grandmas house or wearing a hat to the store. she packs up some toys into her play purse and throws it over her shoulder, just like mommy. just today i threw a hat on before we went into the strore, and she wanted to do the same. there happened to be one in the car, so we went in looking like twins, many people commented on how cute she was (=

justin runs several times a week and she sees him put on his watch and shoes... so she will find her velcro bracelet and bring it to me, "i go run, i go run".. then she will find another one for valen, "vay vay go run too" so they chase each other around the table and want me to join in. kids really do have an amazing amount of energy and they dont even drink coffee (=

 

 

favorite color- oatmeal nana

favorite food- oatmeal nana

favorite toy- oatmeal nana

favorite number-oatmeal nana

favorite letter- oatmeal nana

favorite animal- oatmeal nana

no seriously she says oatmeal nana for everything. she used to pray for oatmeal nana before bed... but i think she did that since we pray for our food at meals, so logically it would seem we are praying FOR the oatmeal nana (= but if i ask her a couple timess and reword it she answers all of these questions appropriately. so her actual favorite things are

food- oatmeal nana

color- pink/purple

toy- abc blocks

number- 10 (yes she does have a favorite number)

letter- w (and yes she also has a favorite letter )

animal- cookie monster

some cute pictures to show you how cute dahlia is. she is such a girl! her favorite colors are pink and purple. in the beginning when we had dahlia i never put her in anything pink, mostly things more my own style, and i have in the past year bought her a couple pink things that are her favorites. i dont really think she noticed that as an infant i withheld this color from her, but i think it is funny that as soon as she is old enough to have an opinion on what she wants to wear or use it happens to be pink (= i really dont mind at all if that is what she likes, it just is funny how much of a girly girl she figured out how to be! 

also her favorite character right now is tinkerbell! she talks about her all of the time. we only have one book of peter pan and she always wants to read it. a week or so ago she started talking a lot about her and now she is her best friend.  i was wondering if we would have to go through that whole "princess" thing with her as she grows up... looks like we might. i dont mind so much fairies though, there are so many more possibilities with that than princesses. my sister made a costume for lillian a few years ago and i was thinking of putting dahlia in it this october if it fits her. it is a tinkerbell costume. so if she is still in love with her, that would be appropriate and stinking adorable! maybe valen can be peter pan.. or michael (=