Care Bear Halloween!

My mom was going through a box of my old stuff and came across these two Care Bears that belonged to me.  They now belong to Elizabeth!  She fell in love with them and went wild when we opened the box!

She's been pushing them around in her stroller for over a week now.

The Care Bears got here just in time!

Happy Halloween!!

Denver with the Girls

Last Monday my friend Autumn and I decided we needed to get out of town so we packed our bags, the girls and jumped in the car that afternoon.  No time like the present, right??  We headed to Castle Rock, CO where Autumn's parents live.  And they kindly hosted 2 girls AND 2 babies for a couple of days.  We were incredibly grateful!

Elizabeth had been riding rear facing in her car seat up until this point.  We turned her around for the first time and she went wild!  She was so excited at everything she could see out the windows.  She was pointing and saying, Moo, Tree, Nay Nay.  She couldn't get everything out fast enough.  It was so sweet!

We did some shopping!  Don't worry...we didn't buy this hat.

We took the girls to the aquarium and since it was a Wednesday afternoon there was hardly anyone there so the girls ran from fish tank to fish tank taking it all in.

"Pat, patting" the sharks.

Mission: Wear Girls Out = Success!

We stayed until Thursday morning when we had to hurry back for Halloween Festivities!

Will's Birthday

 Birthday Breakfast!

Birthday Card!

Birthday Present!

Birthday Cake!

Birthday Suit!

19 Months

I have to hurry up and get this done because we are oh so quickly approaching 20 months!  Whoa!  And I'm already forgetting all the things that she was doing just last month. 

This girl seriously loves shoes. New ones, old ones, taking them off, putting the on.  Everything about them she loves! We are in trouble.

Say cheese!

Checking out all the pretty flowers

Too cool

This was while we were waiting at her 18 month dr's appt.  She had no idea what was coming!

She did not like her shots (who does?!) but the nurse quickly distracted her with this blown up glove.  We LOVE our pediatrician office!  They are fabulous which makes my life so much easier! 

Oh yeah.

New bath toys!

"Coloring"

I gave Elizabeth this notebook and crayons thinking that she might color but instead she discovered that the crayons fit perfectly in the holes of the notebook paper and sat there twisting the crayons in the holes instead.  Engineer brain, maybe??

This is her I didn't get what I wanted face.  I didn't want you to think she was perfect all the time :)

But she is a happy girl most of the time!

And likes sunglasses (can you tell?!)

She has the sweetest little personality, she loves to sing songs, dance, play outside, read books, and watch her "mov mov's (movies).  She is saying lots of words, identifying body parts, animals and funny animal sounds.  She is so smart!  It is really hard to keep up with all the changes...she changes and learns something new every single day.  It's amazing!  I have a feeling that she will never cease to amaze me!

Annual Salyer October Trip

After a week in Virginia, Mom and Dad flew back with Elizabeth and I.  We were warmly welcomed back to the state of Colorado.  Nothing like a snow storm the first week in October!

Luckily it warmed up and we could get out for some shopping!  Mom and Dad got us this awesome couch!  We love it and it is perfect in the condo...I guess they didn't want to spend a week sitting on the floor :)

We did lots of walking and playing outside

Grampy taught Elizabeth how to trace her hand

Stopping to smell the flowers

And turtle kissing :)

Beautiful day!

Then we went to music class...hooray!

Sharing her intruments

Snuggled up for a lullaby

Fall Photos

And then this happened...

Mom and Dad got to experience Elizabeth's first dip in the snow of this year.  Too bad it was during their "fall" trip!  It snowed the day they got here and the day they left but luckily it was nice in between!