Tea Parties, Dress Up and Body Art

Allie is a girly-girl and a tomboy all wrapped in one cute little toddler body. She loves her play clothes, tea parties and pretend food. And she loves to get down and dirty as well.

Here she is enjoying a tea party. This week she learned how to pull herself up onto the kitchen chairs. She has bruises all up and done her shins and across her stomach and has even taken a few diggers off the chair landing belly/face first on the hardwood floor. At least she hasn't figured out that she can use the chair to climb up ONTO the table. I wonder how many weeks before she's belly diving off that surface.


Modeling the little sandals that belong on her teddy bear. Even though they had to be uncomfortable, with her little toes hanging off the end of the shoes, she insisted on wearing them for hours!

Having another go at finger-painting.

Spending time with her favorite tomboy playmate (and looking more and more like him each day).

And at the end of the day, curled up in her new bed. As I sneaked in to take these pictures last night and saw our tiny little girl wrapped up in her big girl bedding, it hit me that she's definitely not our baby anymore. Where have the last 20 months gone?!