Anything you can do, I can do better

John and Alexis like to have handstand competitions. Well, John likes to show off by doing handstands and Alexis tries to copy him.

I took these pictures of Alexis practicing, while John was at school today.

Alexis also loves to do a one leg downward dog yoga pose. She does it randomly all the time.

(Did you notice her bright green "big girl" panties!?)

Home-ing

John has to work late tonight, so today we had family home evening in the morning before he left for school.  Alexis gets so excited to have family home evening and loves to sing "I Am A Child of God."  She calls it "home-ing."  No matter how many times we say "family home evening," she just says "home-ing" back to us.  It's adorable.

Twinkle, Twinkle

Alexis has been able to sing "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" all by herself for quite some time, but I have been unable to get it on camera.  It's just so adorable to see, but every time I get the video camera out, she stops singing.

Yesterday while I was cooking dinner, she was playing with John and started singing.  So I got the camera out and made sure to cough loudly when I turned it on (the beeping noise it makes always gets her attention).  She didn't seem to notice me, and this is what I got on film:

During dinner she started singing again, this time the whole song.  I asked her if she would keep singing if I got the camera out and she said yes!!

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Alexis is getting very opinionated about when, where, and how you can take her picture. The last few weeks I have struggled to get her to take a nice picture on Sundays. This morning was more of the same.

Me: "Time for pictures!"

Alexis: "No."

Me: "Do you want to take a picture with Mommy?"

Alexis: "No."

Me: "Do you want to take a picture with Daddy?"

Alexis: "No."

Me: "Do you want to take a picture on the rocking chair?" (Like we used

        to when she was little).

Alexis: "No."

John: "Do you want to take a picture with Piglet?"

Alexis: "Yes."

Daddy to the rescue! I have no idea why he suggested Piglet (I probably would have suggested one of her babies), but I'm glad he did.

Potty training update:  Since our post on Thursday, Alexis has gone poop in the potty everyday!  She only had one small accident where she pooped a little on the floor (we were letting her run around naked), but other than that, she has done great.  She still hasn't gone pee in the potty, but we're working on it.

I'm a "Big Girl" now

As Alexis was getting out of the shower tonight (she's in to showers at the moment, she flat refuses to take a bath), she told John that she had to go poop.  So John quickly put her little potty seat on the toilet and guess what?  She went poop in the toilet!  Not only was this the first time that she went poop on the potty (like a "big girl" she says), but it was the first time where she initiated using the toilet properly.  She tells me all of the time that she needs to go poop and I put her on her potty seat, but then nothing happens (she never tells me when she has to go pee).  We are so proud of Alexis.  So proud in fact that John wanted to take a picture of the toilet bowl before I flushed it.  Don't worry, I didn't let him.  Yeah Alexis!

Relaxing

Alexis loves to relax. Before bedtime last night, she got herself a blanket and "relaxed" on her bedroom floor. She probably would have slept like that if we let her.

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(This is Alexis' fake whiney face.)

When I put Alexis to bed I always give her a cuddle and say "Mommy loves you so much," repeated a few times.  Yesterday I left her with John to go run some errands and before I left I said to her "I love you."  She then said "so much."  It made me smile.