Wayne's World

My little ballerina

Dakoda loves dance class every week. She really enjoys getting dressed up too. Every time I see her in her dance gear, I can't believe how big she is getting.

BathTime

Dakoda loves to place bubbles all over Chyler and Chyler doesn't mind a bit!

I have realized that Chyler's favorite place to be is in the water. She prefers the bathtub, but the sink will do too. That is why she has been pulling up to see Dakoda every time I give her a bath. So one day, I put her in the tub with Dakoda and she loved it. Getting her out was the trick!

7 months old

Chyler has discovered how to pull up. It started out that every time I gave Dakoda a bath, she would crawl in there as fast as she could as soon as she heard the water start. Then she would crawl up to the tub and peek in at Dakoda bathing and finally after a couple nights of balancing on her knees, she pulled herself to a standing position. Now that she has learned that, she has been trying it everywhere.

Going Bonkers

In January I visited my sisters again and we went to a local place called Bonkers. It's pretty much a ChuckE Cheese. Dakoda had a blast there. This last picture was just a small portion of how big it was. Her favorite was piling the large pieces of fruit and blocks and the foot of a slide and slide down and crash into them all.

Tinkerbell Tent

The girls got a Tinkerbell play hut for Xmas and I thought Dakoda would be more interested in it for now but I was wrong. One day I couldn't find Chyler and I hear movement in the tent so I take a peek and she's just beaming from ear to ear because she was so proud of what she discovered. Now, the two of them love to play in there together. I love watching the two of them get along so well together.

Smart little Cookie

Dakoda recently got play dough for Christmas and she loves to play with it. (of course only under supervision for the sake of my carpet and furniture!) Before she turned 2 yrs old, she learned all of her colors. She even knows black and white and brown (ones I never cared about). So she makes me get out all of the play dough and she likes to line them up and tell me each color. I've also been trying to teach her letters of the alphabet by using ways she would be interested like for instance, spelling her name out in play dough. She knows the letter "D" and "A" and can recognize them in words.

Daddy is home for Christmas

She found her glow worm :)

Dakoda was too distracted to open her gifts so Chyler and I helped out a little.

Dakoda loved opening gifts.

Grandma Wayne and Chyler

Nick and the girls in front of the tree before we opened gifts.

This is the horse that grandma and grandpa Macy (my mom and dad) got the girls. I had a similar one when I was little. I really enjoy watching Dakoda ride it. She has a love for horses and this made it to where she can ride him whenever she wants. Chyler likes to watch for now, but I know eventually they will both enjoy it.

Great Grandma Macy got the girls this huge cheetah "tiger" (that's what dakoda calls it). Both of them love it. I wasn't sure if Dakoda would like it at first because it looked so real, but I was wrong. I found it in bed with her the next morning. And the night after that she insisted that it slept by her side! This thing is huge! I practically takes up 1/4 of her bed. It's large enough for the two of them to ride like a horse!