Mini Martha Stewart

Lately our daughter has become very domestic and has found her place in the kitchen. I no longer can do the dishes or cook a meal without little martha pulling up a chair to the sink or countertop and trying to cook or clean like mommy does. I hope this same desire to help me stays around until she turns 18. Allyson helps rinse off the dishes and will put all of the silverware in the dishwasher. When I am cooking she always gets to help me mix the ingredients and then clean up the mess she usually makes.

Thanks to some friends of ours, Ally now has a kitchen of her own that she can do whatever she wants with. The other night she made Brian and I dinner. Brian got pizza and an orange slice on a plate and she made me eggs and peas.....just what I wanted....haha. While we were pretending to eat our delicious meals, Allyson came back with a third meal and she said it was for baby. Brian and I just looked at each other and laughed as Ally lifted up my shirt and started feeding carrots and toast to my bellybutton. She knows mommy has a baby in her belly, but I think she thinks my bellybutton is the baby. She always says HI to her baby brother or sister while patting on my belly button.

One month before Ally's second birthday she decided to potty train herself and now we can't keep her out of the bathroom. If she gets really excited she sometimes forgets to stop and go, but we are working on that still. This usually happens when she is over at Poppy and Mamaws or playing hide and seek with Daddy. We are excited that we won't have to do double diaper duty with baby #2 coming.