And then we have a day like today...

Funny that I should post about my "sweet" Cecily this morning, and then we go and have a day like today.  Cecily is totally into clogging the toilet.  I've been noticing lately that the toilets have been getting a little clogged lately, but usually work fine after flushing them again.  Today I have figured out why.  My sweet little miss Cecily has been flushing entire rolls of toilet paper (okay, maybe not quite that much, but definitely close to 1/2 a roll) when she uses the toilet.  I never had a problem with her playing with the toilet paper when she was younger.  No, she has waited until now to discover how freaking cool unrolling the toilet paper is.  And instead of rolling it back up, it is way more cool to flush it down the toilet.  

So this morning I started suspecting that this was going on and I was listening to her as she was in the bathroom.  All of a sudden I hear this sweet, panicked voice say, "Go down!  Go down!"  But, no, the water was coming up and out of the toilet, not down!  Luckily, she had only "gone" number one.  Oh, wait!  That's just the first time she clogged the toilet.  The next time, she had totally pooped first, and then clogged it up again.  

This girl really is one of my favorite things.

Really.

This sweet little girl is one of my favorite things...

I've been noticing lately that Cecily is really growing up.  It makes me kind of sad that she is getting so big, but at the same time, I am loving being able to see what a sweet little girl she is becoming.

Yesterday, she was listening to Primary songs on the IPod as I was getting ready.  I had the baby on the bed, and when I came in to check on them, I saw that Cecily had climbed onto the bed and had put one of the earphones in Ainsley's ear so that she could hear the music, too.  It was so cute to see the two of them just hanging out together and listening to music!

Cecily LOVES her little sister.  Whenever Ainsley wakes up, Cecily will run up to me asking, "Is Ainsley awake?"  And she will insist on following me into Ainsley's bedroom to get her.  She has to have her stool up to the crib so that she can watch me pick Ainsley up.  She loves to go get Ainsley's diapers and wipes, give her her plug, and rub Ainsley's head as she says, "Ohhh, Ainsley, Ohhh, Cute!"  I am starting to suspect that she is trying to feed Ainsley treats when I'm not looking...  But what are big sisters for, right?

Anyway, I have just been thinking a lot lately about how lucky I am to have such a great little Cec.  Her funny personality is always making me laugh, yet she always knows when I need a big tight hug, and will give them to me all the time.  I just love this little girl so much!

These pictures were taken when Cecily and Derrick had a Daddy-Daughter day with Nate & Brett Allen at the Allen's cabin.  She is such a daddy's girl, and I LOVE IT!

YEP...

She likes that thumb. I swear she would have swallowed her entire fist tonight if it were detached from her arm! And the slobber!! I'm surprised our whole family hasn't drowned yet! If it weren't so darn cute, I would have to do something about it. She just lays there with both hands fighting for room in her mouth while she just jabbers and jabbers! Sometimes it sounds like she is being fussy, but she's actually just talking up a storm...and not being quiet about it!This little gal is still cute...Last night we were in the car driving home, and our friends were picking up some pizza and meeting us at our house. Derrick was being silly and sing-songing "We're gonna have a pizza party," over and over. So Cecily joined in and added in her "Oh yeah, oh yeah!" I turned around to look at her and she's totally into it and rolling her arms as she cheers. It was really cute! Hey Mom, I think Cec looks like a Thomas in the picture below. What do you think?

Anyone feel like making some yummy cookies? I just made these delicious ones (but then, I think ANYTHING with chocolate is good). You can get the recipe off of my recipe blog. They are my Chocolate Chunk and Toffee Chip Oatmeal Cookies.

Was this the lamest post ever? I'd say it's up there.

The Zoo for Cecily

Cecily is really into animals right now, especially elephants.  So Derrick and I took her to the zoo while we were in Utah.  Grandpa Tornow came, too.  Cecily absolutely loved it!  

I must have had some guts this day!

Anyone who has known me for a long time knows that I have refused to cut my hair short ever since the seventh grade.  I've had haircuts, but I've never gone shorter than several inches below my shoulders.  Why?  I've never liked my hair short, and my hair does not grow very fast at all.  Well, I haven't been loving  the way I look lately (mostly due to the weight I gained during pregnancy that still has not come off), so when I was in Utah, I had my darling sister in law chop my hair off...twice!  My hair was so long it was touching the top of my pants, and the first haircut, we went about 5 inches and it was still really long.  So for some reason, I got really brave, called Annie and told her I wanted her to do it again!  Below is the hair from my 2nd haircut:  (I know, pretty gross)!

I don't have any pictures of the finished product because although I like the haircut, I'm still not liking pictures of me, so you'll just have to imagine how it looks!  I just had to let you know that I had a brave day!

Visit To Utah

We made a visit to Utah over Memorial Day weekend and Derrick got to come with us, so we blessed Ainsley while we were there.  Here are some pictures:

She's such a sweet, happy baby!

Here she is just chillin' with Daddy:

How on Earth did we create these darling kids???

Anyway, I think some of you have already heard the news that we are moving back to Utah.  We got connected with a guy from Costa's corporate who was looking to run some restaurants, so we decided to bring him on so that Derrick could move on to what he's wanting to do next.  It seems like the timing was perfect.  We were getting frustrated that our home in Utah had not sold yet, and now we are going back and have a beautiful home to live in!  I'm going to really miss the wonderful friendships we have made here.  I've been a little emotional about it this week.  I can't even tell you how good it has been for us to live down here.  It really opened our eyes and taught us a lot.  We will visit Farmington often, as we still own the restaurant, so hopefully we will be able to keep these friendships we have here.

So packing... here I come (again)!