Bye Winter!

We are so over the winter and ready for summer! Update on life goes as follows:

Bentley lives for the 1st saturday of every month @ home depot. Its daddy daughter build something day. If you have a home depot in your town, take your kid or have your husband take your kid. it is so fun and and its free! 

We went to a scary black market sale in gj a few weeks back and came home with a bike and a toaster oven, both totaling $31. I havent been scared since living in CO until going into this warehouse sale. we will remember that 30 min for the rest of our lives. Anyways, the toaster oven works great, dont know how i have ever lived with out one, and the bike it great too.. no she doesn't ride it by herself, but she loves to sit on it and pretend. She will get it someday..

 Lots of saturdays have been spent with her horseys. she is going to be that awkward lisa frank horse girl in elementary school that everyone thought was weird.. she's a cowgirl and proud of it! 

 She does lots of coloring, play dough, gets every toy out of her room, just plain busy being 2.. 

 Riding her dolphin.. on a pretend train she made out of storage bins and stuffed animals.

 Another big deal in our house is "nastics" on wednesdays. this is bentleys hour of heaven every week. She gets so excited to go and loves accomplishing new tricks..

 last week we went on a special mommy daughter date to paint at amazing glaze. bentley will not stop talking about her dolphin that she made at "the place" she keeps saying its there getting pretty (we cant pick it up till friday)

 im trying to soak up every second i have with this girl before the baby comes because i know life will forever be different. never again will i just be bentleys mom.. ill have another little buddy right by my side. i am so excited for our little guy to be here but i know it will be a huge adjustment for bentley to have to share her mom. im sure she will be a great big sis and she asks if her brudder is coming soon almost every day. 

bentley is 2 and 3.5 months.. she has a bigger vocabulary than i do and if she doesn't know what something is, she doesn't ask, she makes up a name for it. she is our little zoologist and can tell you every animal there is, right down to a bottle nosed dolphin or a hump back whale. sea animals are her specialty, but she loves any animal. she is obsessed with watching "too cute!" on the animal channel. it shows the birth of baby kittens and puppies.. why she likes this? idk. future vet i guess. goes crazy for the gieco gecko. when i say crazy i mean crazy. check out my youtube channel if you havent seen the gecko dance in action. she loves to sing and dance and make up her own songs. she loves doing nails and any kind of craft or activity. she keeps asking to go camping to eat hot dogs and smarshmallows. lol she has been camping once in her life and it was a year ago. this child has a memory like no other. if you tell her something, be prepared for it to be repeated in a month or 2.. thomas the train is her favorite  and she wont leave the house without "meems" (her blanket) no potty training yet, she tells me, "no mom i wike diapies, im not ready for the potty" so i guess she knows best and will try on her schedule. she says the funniest things and keeps us cracking up. 

pregnancy update: im being cut open on may 17th. so about 9 weeks to go! im feeling nice and huge and ready to not be pregnant anymore. 9 weeks is feeling like an eternity away.. it kinda is. ill live, hopefully! 

until next time, happy spring! (almost)