B.....Wa Wa

What's new in the life of the Powell's?

Aaron has started school/pre reqs to hopefully go to P.A. school. I am still working prn as an OT and am almost 7 months prego with our 2nd little girl! And, Taylor is the cutest (most of the time) 2 year old in the world.

Taylor-isms:

-B...Wa Wa: is her binky and Wa Wa (the name she gave her stuffed Clifford the big red dog).Truly her happy place when she has the duo.

-She loves baby dolls and is really happy about baby sister coming, although there isn't anythingwe've found yet that she's willing to share with her.

-She wants to cover up her invisible boo boos with bandaids, and calls them "band-dans"

-She now says, "No, Taylor do it" a thousand times a day when she wants to do things on her own.

-She has a ton of beautiful blond hair with naturally beautiful curls at the ends.

-She LOVES to play hide and seek, multiple times a day

-Loves going to the park, the tunnel slide and has to do things "2 times"

-She can count to 17 and has known the "AB's" song for several months now.

-She thinks everyone's last name is Powell, including Mickey Mouse and Dora

-She loves to sing and does a great job at improving the words

Her cute Easter dress, thanks to Grandma Sherry

Grandma came for a visit and they had lots of baby play time

One of her favorite places to sit in the kitchen

Her 2nd birthday surprise..getting to see and ride horses

A little park time, and feeding the ducks

The above mentioned...B Wa Wa...now she only gets it while she sleeps

And her favorite monkey pj's...she wants to wear them everyday, all day!

SUMMER 2010

The recap of our fun summer. Hope you enjoy!

Southern California Trip



Enjoying the summer...Taylor's new sandbox. So fun!
My first fancy cake I made from my cake decorating class. Roses are hard!
Camping in Steamboat Springs, CO

Vegas...



Taylor's Update: 18 months. 31 inches, 24 pounds
Running. Climbing. Trying to jump. Talking like crazy. Laughing. Loves playing with her friends. Lots of blonde hair. Loves being outside. Loves Elmo & Clifford the big red dog. Loves Snuggling and watching Baby Einstein movies. Is a sweet girl but also has some sass. Love her!

Taylor really is quite a talker. Here are just the words I can think of right now that she says:
bubble. ball. bird. Bobby. go. food. milk. daddy. mommy. mamo (grandma). poopa (grandpa). elmo. ernie. moobie (movie). Maddie. cold. Kaeli. Jenna. Bryce. more. please. pink. sorry. yellow. quack quack (for duck). doggie. zebra. cow. moo. Lolly (Aunt Holly). juice. cheese. baby. drinky. blanky. stinky. yucky. poo poo. potty. pee pee. shoes. peek a boo. ee ii ee ii oo. no. yeah. please.

She's pretty amazing, our girl. Can you tell we're a little proud of her?!

Randomness of Life...

No we have not fallen off the face of the earth, and yes we still have the cutest little baby on earth that we want to post pics of! We just moved in to a house, and have been busy with all the craziness associated with it. Life has calmed a bit now, so I thought I would just post some random pics. Make sure not to miss the marathon and Taylor's first b-day posts before this. And, we'll see how long I can keep this blog open to everyone because I have been getting some creepy comments on here. Yikes. Anyway, still love everyone and hope you enjoy the pics of the fam.

What Taylor is up to now...
-Crawling at 12 months, and walking about 3 weeks later, and now she's 14 months and running around all over the place and almost wanting to climb.
-Says lots of words...daddy, mommy, bubbles, ball, bird, book, doggie, no, yeah, hi...and I'm sure there's more but I can't think right now.
-She is a little water baby! She is so calm and loves being in the pool!
-She is still a chill baby at times and loves to snuggle.
-She has such a little personality and is cute with using her hands when she's trying to ask for something.
-She has 5 teeth and lots of hair (kind of a sandy blond color)
-She just got her toe nails painted for the first time last week!

Salt Lake City Marathon!

The said promised pictures from the marathon! We had such a good time running the race. Although I was a little grumpy about the training and not sure why I was doing it at times, I had so much fun that day and felt really good. Stewy and Jared trained together and both did awesome. So proud, hope you enjoy the video at the end, I may have shed a little tear when he crossed the finish line, knowing how hard he had worked to finish!

Taylor's first Birthday! (in April!)

Taylor was such a little ham on her birthday, as you can see from the cake pictures. She is so funny! She tore in to the cake. All the Powell family and Mom were there to celebrate her big day. The biggest update for Taylor around her 12 months was...she finally started crawling at 12 months! And getting her first tooth!

We did It!!

Just writing a quick note that we made it! I was so proud of Stewy. He did so well and finished so strong! His time was 4:32:36! He's amazing and looked so good afterwards too, like he hadn't just ran 26.2 miles! I really liked running the half marathon too, I felt really good the whole time. My time was "officially" 2:34:00, but I had to do a porta potty stop that we timed and it took 13 minutes. So, I'm saying my offical time is 2:21:00! I feel fine about that, that's the time I was running. Anyway, we'll post pics later, and post pics of Taylor's first b-day, but just wanted to get the word out! Aaron's brother Jared and wife Kristen also ran the marathon and half marathon. It was great running with them.

Buddies

Tracie, Troy and Brooke came to visit and we had a good time. The girls especially had fun playing together, as you can see from the craziness of toys. This pic is as they were about to head out, Taylor was on her way to bed, and we were getting Brookie to give Taylor a kiss. It was so cute. They're goint to be good buddies.

Taylor's aforementioned favorite sleeping position. I took this one this morning because it was perfect. Head scrunched all the way to the top (I don't know how or why this is comfortable at all), and left leg propped up on the bumper just chillin, always the left leg. Funny lady.