27 months and 1 week

Since Matt had a day off, we had a nice long weekend of family activities. We went to Sea World and enjoyed the rides. We got to go on a nice hike with our friends, and finally we went to a pumpkin patch with rides and a petting zoo. We even took her swimming because it was 90 degrees here in October. Chloe is very excited for Halloween. We ask her, "what will you say when you go to the door on Halloween?" and she says "May I have some candy please?". She is too funny. Luckily, she is finally adjusting to her toddler bed is sleeping much better and is finally taking naps again. In the middle of November, Chloe has her first ballet recital, so each night she practices her routine with us. They are doing a short little dance for the "Wheels on the Bus" song. She gets really into it, so it will be fun to see how she does with an audience. Chloe has been very cuddly and affectionate lately. She will just come up to us and hug us and kiss us and say "I love you".

27 months old

The pumpkin patch with Chloe's Mommy and Me class was this week. This is the 3rd year she has gone to the pumpkin patch so it was fun to see how she has grown over the years. Click here to see previous pumpkin patch photos 2008 and 2007 . She picked out the smallest little pumpkin. I took Chloe to pick out her Halloween costume this year. She is going to be Dr. Chloe (baby doctor). We bought her a medical kit with supplies, band-aids, and bandages to fix her Dolly. She loves wearing it to dress up around the house. We also got Matt a Sea World pass so we took Chloe this past weekend. She enjoyed going on the rides with Daddy and watching the dolphins.

It has been a difficult week getting Chloe adjusted to her toddler bed. We are used to her 3 hour naps in the afternoon, but it is a lot harder to enforce now that she can get out of her bed herself. She tries to make any excuse to not to be in bed. On a positive note, it had made her almost 90% potty trained since she can get up and go potty when she needs to. She doesn't need diapers for nap time and can go the whole night without a diaper. The only part I need to work on is when she is out of the house.

Grandparents Visit

Besides going to Yosemite, we did some fun things around San Diego while Chloe's grandparents were in town. We went to Belmont Park at Mission Beach and took Chloe on the rides. She is really enjoying them much more than when she was younger. We spent a day in Coronado

playing in the sand and walking around. We also took a walk in Ocean Beach down the pier while Chloe got some practice riding her tricycle, followed by a yummy burger at Hodad's. Chloe had such a fun time entertaining her grandparents. Grandma and Grandpa taught her how to play Go Fish. She recognizes her numbers pretty well and she knows when the numbers match.

While Grandma and Grandpa were here, we turned Chloe's bed into a toddler bed so it gives her freedom to get up and go to the bathroom in the morning or during nap time. She is doing great at night time(she can even go all night without a diaper and naptime), but she struggles for nap time if she doesn't want to go to sleep. I think it will take a few days for her to adjust to this, but I think it will really help to finish potty training her.

Yosemite Trip

We spent the past few days in Yosemite National Park camping with Matt's parents. We rented a van and drove from San Diego (about an 8hr drive). We stayed in tent cabins in Yosemite Valley.We went on some nice hikes and enjoyed the beautiful scenery. The weather was nice and cool and it really felt like fall. I was able to take a photography class offered through the Ansel Adams Gallery. Here are a few highlights from our trip (I took over 400 pictures that I need to weed through). Chloe had a great time spending time with her grandparents!

Chloe did great on the car ride there...she just talks to her dolls and sings to herself and points out everything she sees along the way. She is still progressing with the potty training, even on our trip.

26 months and 2 weeks

Lots of activities this past week! We started a new art class on top of her normal classes that she has. We also started a playgroup at the park that focuses on learning preschool activities (each week we focus on one letter of the alphabet). She is doing great with letter recognition of uppercase and lower case letters. She knows that her name starts with C and her last name starts with G.

Now that Chloe has started to pedal her tricycle, we have been taking her out every day to ride around the neighborhood.

We had 2 birthday parties this weekend, one of them was a pirate party for her friend Audrey. She got to go on a treasure hunt and find buried treasure.

26 months and 1 week

The fall session of ballet started this past week. Chloe gets to go to class with her friend Evyn (who we babysit for on Tuesdays) and they had such a great time dancing together. Since Chloe is familiar with the routine, she followed along and listened to the teacher for the whole class (she used to try to distract her friend Audrey in class). She will have her first ballet recital in November at the end of the session. We had Mommy and Me class, a park class at Mission Bay Park, and just hung out indoors at the bookstore another day last week. It has been very hot here! We spent a nice relaxing day at the beach on Saturday and Matt took Chloe to the Chula Vista Nature Center to participate in kid crafts for the day.

Chloe's new skill this week is pedaling her tricycle all by herself!

26 months old

We had a great week of potty training! Finally Chloe is going poopy on the potty! She is very proud of herself:) We went to the park and storytime on Tuesday with her friend Evyn that I have been babysitting once a week. The girls are the same age and have such a fun time with each other. We had an indoor Mommy and Me class on Wednesday, a new outdoor Mommy and Me on Thursday that meets at the park, and Friday we went to Kidsville to play with some friends. Even though there were so many cool toys to play with, Chloe wanted to play in the baby section with her baby dolls.

We had a great day in Coronado at the park, beach, and lunch on Saturday and BBQ at night with some friends. I signed up to take a few free Photoshop classes and digital photography classes so I can learn to take better pictures with my new camera! Hopefully I will see a difference in a few weeks:) A special thank you to both Grandma's this week....Chloe was so excited to get packages in the mail with new books from Grandma and a package from Nana with a tutu and dress up shoes and jewelry. Chloe loves dancing in the living room with tutu on like a ballerina.