19 Months!

Trying for some good 19 month shots! Sometimes she has the patience for these pictures and sometimes not. : )

Baby EINSTEIN!!

I have a TON of pictures to post, but I wanted to start out with this little video to brag a bit and show how smart Presley is. She knows her shapes! She can recognize at least 22 or 23 letters of the alphabet! She is working on her phonics - she can do the sounds for about half of the letters. Her vocabulary is huge and growing like crazy everyday!- I need to post a video of her talking...

The square and the rectangle tripped her up at first when we were initially learning the shapes, but she has gotten better since then.

I swear she learns something new everyday. I'm just trying to keep up. We're practically ready for kindergarten.

That's all I have time to post right now. We have to go put in a call to Mensa and shop for a bumper sticker like the one below...

: )

Park-aholic

Presley loves going to the park and we have been spending some quality time scouting out the best in our area. Here is a quick shot of her enjoying herself on one of the neighboring Elementary School playgrounds. : )

Happy Father's Day!

18 Months!

Today was Presley's HALF Birthday!

She's 18 months old! It's hard to believe that she is a year and a half. So what did we do for this momentous occasion? Why, we fed the ducks, of course!

We even saw a crane!

What can I say? The girl loves the ducks! She just walks around: "quack, quack. quack, quack". It's funny.

Then we tried to capture some big girl 18 month pictures, but she wasn't really into it. She's tired of looking at a camera lens, I think.

Then it was off to Temple for Father's Day where we caught some quick pics of this sweet bay-bee outside of the church. : )

Watering the Flowers

Apparently, keeping the flowers alive has something to do with giving them water. So we're trying that at our house for a while. Presley saw me watering the flowers and wanted to help out!

I love how the water just keeps spilling out everywhere while she carries the pitcher, and I'm sure there's only about half left by the time she gets to the tree. But she's so proud of herself and she's having such a great time! Who could fault her for that.

This is about the 10th bucket that the tree has had. You can tell by her soaked clothes. : )

Duck Season

We made another visit to the duck pond near our house. Now, last time we went was on a Saturday and the ducks were just moving from family to family out there at the park. This time, they were a little more forceful.
We were still probably 50 feet from the pond when a little family of ducks start waddling our way. We weren't throwing out bread or doing anything like that, but apparently they can spot a duck feeder from a mile away.
But it was cute. It was a mommy and 3 little babies. And who doesn't want to feed those cute little things. They came up to about a foot away from us and then waited for their handouts.
So we fed them.

And then another little family comes over to visit. And let me tell you, You may think that ducks are not fast, but these things were running at us at top speed.

So then three more big ducks come our way. And they're all looking for our bread. And then the 2 mommy ducks and the 3 newcomers start getting a little bit grouchy. I wound up picking Presley up and holding her for most of this because we had 11 ducks surrounding us all fighting for the food. The moms were particularly angry with anyone who tried to steal food from their babies. So they just kept running around snapping at eachother. It was crazy. I guess there's enough bread to go around on Saturdays cause they certainly didn't act like this then.

Then all of a sudden, it was like they all got their fill. (Which was good b/c we were soon out of bread) So they went back to the water.

So we walked out to one of the little piers and watched for more ducks and fish.

And those ducks came back again looking for some more.

Fiesty little things.