22 Months!

February 21st

22 months was here and gone in the blink of an eye. Natalie is growing so much and becoming such a smart girl. She loves to learn and talk. She is becoming a pro at colors. She knows almost all of the colors about 99% of the time. And when I say she knows her colors, I mean the colors that you can find in a bag of M&Ms- plus purple and pink (Easter M&Ms :)! M&Ms can be such great teaching tools! Thanks to Daddy, she is also learning her shapes. Nathan has an app on his phone where Natalie matches the shapes by dragging each shape to its match. This is slowly teaching her the names of each shape.

One thing that Natalie is really enjoying these days is going on Daddy/Daughter dates to Bruster's. There have been a couple of times when Nathan has taken Natalie to Bruster's for ice cream after leaving Poppa's house. Natalie loves to eat the ice cream, run around, and talk to the other kids.

Being a goof ball!

Hiding!

As Nathan trains for the Gate River Run on a hurt ankle, he comes home and ices each time. Natalie thinks this is great and joins in on the fun. I'm pretty sure she can stand the freezing cold water just as long as Nathan can! Of course, we have to watch and make sure she doesn't try to sneak and eat the ice!

The little copycat.

Our play area has exploded with more and more toys. Natalie loves to take things to the next level and be super creative when playing. An indoor slide is not good enough- she has to try to take the car down the slide! Between stunts like this and climbing on the ping pong table, we are doing some renovations in order to make our fun zone more kid friendly!

She just has to take everything to the next level!

Resting with the babies on the ping pong table.

In order to socialize Natalie with other little kids, Nathan and I have made it our mission to take her out weekly. Even though Nathan takes her daily to the park, there are rarely other little kids around. We decided to start taking her to a bigger park so she can interact with other boys and girls. At her age, interacting is more of side by side playing but she loves kids so much! Between Chick-Fil-A, the mall play area, and the park, Natalie has been able to be around little kids more and more.  

Being brave and going down the big slide.

Looking for the squirrel.