9-19 months (The Sequel to 0-9 that debuted last Xmas)

Here is the rest of the movie!

Happy Holidays!

Vallie is a Punk Rocker!

Vallie rocking out to Surfin' Bird by The Ramones!



P.s. I'm saying whole sentences some days. I can say almost all of the words in a few of my word books. Plus, I like to repeat the end of people's sentences. I can name all the parts of my face, march in place while saying "march" and so many new things everyday it is hard to keep track!

Monster of a Month

Sorry, it's been so long since I've updated! Mommy broke her foot and she hasn't been herself lately! Daddy had to take on both roles and now I'm calling him "Mommy" all the time!

The month of October brought me a lot of Fall/Halloween festivals. Mommy, I mean Daddy, bought me some beautiful fairy wings.



Grandma Gigi came up and taught me the word pumpkin! So of course, mommy, daddy, and Gigi took me to look at pumpkins and Gigi bought me two for myself!




We went "trunk or treating" at TWU and all of these people kept giving me candy and telling me how cute I am!


(Mommy thought she could be a "Go-Go Dancer" with a broken foot! Silly mommy!



A few days later it was actually Halloween and I dressed up as a witch so I could get more candy!




My first trick or treat at a house!



Checking out my loot:



And eating chocolate!

Sunday, Sunday, Sunday

It was a beautiful day outside Sunday and mommy and I played outside for hours! She took me for a ride in my new chariot! It was awesome because we got to the park in barely five minutes! I made some new friends and got to climb and climb and climb. When we got home I just refused to go inside because the weather was so lovely.

Mommy and I finally got a good picture together!

I've also started saying "open" and "close" pretty regularly and counting to three. I can count my shoes;which mom thinks is pretty amazing. Yesterday at the park, I looked at a little girl and said, "What's your name?" Mom was blown away because she had no idea I knew that phrase!

P.S. I'm pretty adorable in a jean skirt!

Tutti Fruitti

Mommy bought me the most amazing tutu yesterday at the community market. My friend Finn's mommy made it! If you want one, you can buy one from her etsy shop!

Copycat, Copycat - Whoa, Whoa

Well Folks, Mommy went back to work. She decided to make me a dress with calaveras on it for her last day of summer vacation though. I didn't really want my picture taken, but I think the print on the dress is pretty cute.

I'm acquiring more and more language everyday! Just the other day, I was looking at my Mo Willems "Big Frog Can't Fit In"book and I pointed to the frog and said, "Is that a frog?" Mommy and Nanan were quite impressed.




Everything Mommy and Daddy do, I want to do too. I love to drink out of my big girl cup like daddy and sit in a chair next to daddy like a big girl too! I also like to dance like daddy when mommy lets me take a break from eating tofu and we get to eat pizza. Yippee!

Flashback Episode

I fell off my slide, I fell on the slide at the park, and I ran into a door. All in one week. In honor of these three head injuries this week, I'm flashing back to one year ago....

August 2009. I weighed 16 pounds- today I weigh 25. I was 26.5" tall and off the charts for my height! Today I am 31" tall. I had also just started eating. In fact my mommy emailed Nanna and Gigi about my first meal, "We mixed some with breast milk with rice cereal last night just to see how she would like it. She pulled at the spoon to put it in her mouth, but once the food made it to her mouth, she spit it out! It was so cute!" Mommy 8/22/09

Here is a video of me a year ago. As you can see, I'm totally different now! Back then I just laid around and hiccuped!

Man, I've been busy!

Sorry for the delay in posting, but the last week has been a whirlwind! Friday Mom and Dad made me sweep the whole "Giggle Giggle" room! As you can see I'm not very happy about it.


After that we drove aaaaaalllllll the way to Temple and I slept through the whole car ride! I got to see my Grandma GG and Ross, my Grandpa Graves, my Grandma D, even Auntie Em and Uncle B! Then I even hung out with my GGR (Great Grandma Rose), Great Grandpa, and my Nana Betty! You'd think it would make me tired, but I loved all of the attention!



Even after a busy weekend, we had things to do! Mommy took me to see a rockband on Monday and then today I made my first trip to the museum!

I loved the Museum even though it was incredibly busy! First, I listened to a weird story about a girl who's step mother didn't like her and abandoned her in the woods. Then I ate a sandwich by a really toothy frog while my friends Noah and Luke made arty puppet bags.



Then I got to color with Ms. Shelagh in a card board cave! She even let me write on the wall at the Museum! I was surprised because Mommy doesn't let me color on the walls at home and because the guards there don't like me to even point at the art work! But Ms Shelagh said she wouldn't tell anyone!
Ms. Shelagh also told mommy that over 700 mommies with strollers were pushing through the doors to get into First Tuesdays at the museum that morning. Whew, no wonder it seemed so crowded.

All in all, the best part of the day was seeing the prints of calaveras by Posada! I tried to tell mommy about how the floating calaveras reminded me of the book Aunt Stephie bought me, but she couldn't understand what I was saying. Anyway, I talked about the floating calaveras for a very long time, and mommy had to remind me to look at the rest of the exhibit.



As you can see, I really have been busy. It almost makes me relieved that mommy will go back to work in two weeks! Not really, but I tell her that to make her feel better. That's all for now, see you next time!

Impressions and Play dates

Driving home from Target the other night, I told mom and dad, "I'm cute!" They started thinking, "Uh Oh! We are in for it now! She knows she's cute!" Lemme tell you, they are right!

Here is me being cute doing my Lily Tomlin Impression:

















So, last week Uncle Tony finished my amazing playscape in the backyard and Dad-Dad finished my Giggle Giggle Room! Now I can play and play and play! We've had a lot of people come over since then. I'll show you a few of the highlights.







The Giggle Giggle Room and my favorite chair:


Me and Redding taking a milk break:


Jungle Gym Mania:



Go Go Blanket Break with N:


That's all for now! Tune in next time!

Today Was a Good Day

Mom and I put on our sunglasses to go the library.



After storytime, I had a giant panda read me a book about pandas.



Then Auntie Em and Dad took me to my favorite place, Yogurt Fusion!



And last, but not least, I attempted to try on my first swimsuit, a stringy Gold Lamé number, at the thrift store.



Yep, today was a good day.

What's That?

I don't know what we were pointing at, but Pop-Pop knows what everything is! "What's that?" is my new catch phrase that I use almost everyday. I can't wait for tea and tots tomorrow at the Hydrant! My dad might take me!

Speaking of, did I show you the awesome chair my dad bought me? Mrs. Audrey said it makes me look like an architect. ( You may want to only watch the first bit. I couldn't get my editing software to work!)



Oh and I'm sure you'll want to see this vid of me dancing!

The Catch Up Episode

Well, first things first, I need to catch you up to date. I'll just hit the highlights so you don't get bored!
1) I'm not only walking now. I'm running!
2) I acquire new words every day!
3) This is what my buddy R-dog and I looked like a year ago
4) But now we look like this! Pretty drastic change, huh?

I'm learning new words everyday! My first word that really went with an image was "shoe". (I know, I know, you aren't surprised because my mom is pretty crazy about shoes, right? Did she ever tell you about the time she made my Tio Vicente walk all over Amsterdam looking for an ATM to buy some Frankenstein shoes? No? You should ask her, it's an entertaining story.) Then I went on to saying things like uh oh, ush teeth, what's that, and a lot of times it sounds like I'm saying cat or repeating what mommy and daddy say. Just last night I started saying bath!

Uh oh! Gotta run! Dad bought me a new chair and I need to go try it out! See you next time! Insert hug here!