Update

Things are going well, we moved out of our house last week Saturday and have been living with Oma and Opa since then.  Jackie has done great with the change she has been sleeping really well at their house and I think for the most part she has really liked having more people around to play with.  We closed on the new house early this week and should get the keys on Saturday, there are a few things we would like to do before we move in, remove wall paper, clean and replace some carpet and paint. So the hope is that maybe the middle of next week we will move in and then over the holiday weekend we can work on getting all the furniture out of the pods and really start unpacking.  

Jackie loves to play with the farm at Omas house I think the animals are by far her favorite toy here.

A message from Jacqueline!

16 Months Photos

 

So nice to have a day where the temperature is nice and we can head to the park and play again.  Jacqueline was super excited to climb and slide.  I feel like the last time we were at the park she still needed my help to get up the steps, not true anymore, now a days if I am lucky I can keep up with her running all over,  so much more independent. It's crazy how fast she grows up. 

Build a Bear

A while back Adam had to go to Chicago for work.  Adam's Boss decided it would be a nice to get Jackie something to say thanks for Daddy working overtime and so he very generously got Jacqueline a gift card to Build a Bear.   I have been waiting for the right day to go and use the card.  I thought it would be logical to wait until we moved rather than have to move more toys but today was hot and we needed a fun indoor activity so logic went out the window and we headed to the mall.  Jacqueline played in the playland (she adores the slide there) for a while until some bigger kids came to play and then we headed down to Build a Bear.  I had been thinking there was a cute puppy animal we would make but that was not what Jackie had in mind.  She searched through the bins of animals hugging all of them and kissing a few, and was hold three when she reached the end of the animals.  I tried to push her towards a bunny she had tucked under her right arm but no she was not letting go of the monkey.  So we made a monkey.  She did not like having to hand over her monkey to be stuffed, but in the end I finally convinced her to give the girl the monkey and he got stuffed and had a few hearts added to the inside.
Then we were on to clothes.  Again she and I had different opinions.    I first tried to convince her of an outfit that looked a lot like the one she was wearing, cute shorts plain top but she shook her head no, then I thought maybe a baseball uniform, again no.  She kept pointing to the frilly dresses.  So I held her up to pick out one and the pink and purple ballet outfit was what she had in mind.  (So much for Adam not thinking she is a girly girl.)  I tried then for pink tennis shoes to match but she wanted the satin ballet slippers and a bow for the monkeys ear.  I really thought she was going to be too young for build a bear, I just didn't think she would get into picking things out or really be excited.  Boy was I wrong.  Well we had  a lot of fun and thankfully the busy morning was rewarded, she took a very long afternoon nap.  And then played with the monkey till Daddy came home from work.  Thanks Brad and all the people at DSA, Jacqueline had a great day building her monkey and I think she will enjoy it for some time.