Time is flying..

I can't believe how fast life goes by sometimes. The thing that makes me the most sad is how fast Layla is growing up! Her hair is getting so long, she is getting taller, she is talking so much and she looks so grown up! I know this is going to be even more apparent when we bring home our little guy in September. I realized today that I have been slacking on taking photos for the past while.. I'm charging my camera battery right now so I can correct that.

Some of the things that Layla does lately that melt our hearts/crack us up/drive us crazy are:

• She is a TOTAL daddy's girl. She wants him all the time. This week she started to ask "where's daddy?" with her hands up in a questioning position. I would tell her he is at work. Now she says.. "Daddy" (still with her hands in question mode) and then quickly says "work" she says work in an answer tone, it is pretty darn cute. She is so smart!
• I have a Yo Gabba Gabba episode on my phone that she loves to watch. In one of the skits they say "beatie beat beat clap clap" while they his their legs and then clap. She now will randomly say "beatie beat clap clap" with the actions.
• I can tell the things I say a lot by what she says. She will sometimes pretend to almost fall or that one of her toys fell and then say "woah, okay?" When she falls I will say "Woah, are you okay? When I ask her that, she now replays "okay" or "okay, mamma" She has also picked up on the phase "Oh Shoot" glad that is the word I use, but it could be mistaken for something else when she says it so I'm trying not say it.
  
• Today it is raining with loud thunder. We went to look out the window after her nap and I said "Look at the rain. Can you hear the thunder?" She then said "dibble dop dop." For any of you who have read Mr. Brown can moo.. this may sound familiar. She has read that book tons of times, but not lately. It amazes me what she remembers.
• The one thing that drives me crazy lately is her OBSESSION with buckles. I can't count how many times I have undone the buckle on her car seat, high chair, or grocery cart so she can click it again. And she doesn't just ask nicely to have the buckle undone. Once it is clicked she screams buckle desperately over and over again until it is undone. I do love the way she says buckle though.. it sounds like bupple. If we are in public, I'm sure people are wondering why that little girl is crying "bupple, bupple, bupple" at the top of her lungs with her head thrown back. We are working on her saying help me, and sometimes she gets it, but not when the "bupple" is involved
• The other night we did a quick FHE with her and we were trying to get her to kneel for prayers after, but that was not happening. We finally gave up and just said prayers. Throughout the entire prayer, she went back and forth between Chad and I and said "hugs" and would just hug us. I think she was trying to make up for not obeying. We were both trying not to laugh, it was pretty cute.
• The other day we went to visit Aunt Kristin and Uncle Mike and she had on some sandals that made a great sound on their floor. I think she was tap dancing the majority of the time we were there, mostly in a circle. It was pretty cute. I can't wait to put her in a dance class.
  
• She is very sensitive. Sometimes she will do something that will hurt me or Chad. When we say ouch or get sad she immediately tries to cuddle up to us and make us laugh. So sweet.
  

As a mom I worry if I'm teaching her enough, if she gets the right food or enough attention. I wonder about methods of discipline and when we are going to move her to a big girl bed.. amongst other things. I'm grateful for good examples all around me (family and friends) as well as a supportive husband who is a great daddy!
That is all for now and I feel like a better mom for recording these things.. even though they are lacking photos :( I'll keep trying to be better at both recording and photos.. I know our family will enjoy it all later.