2nd birthday

This year, just like the previous year we had a small get together for liyahs birthday. I was awesome. The sun came out, there was a ton of food, a nice amount of people showed up. It was a really great day. Couldn't ask for much more for her birthday. No theme really, just had a dora cake :). It was one of the hottest days of the summer so we all got pretty tan. She enjoyed herself and im so happy about the turn out.
 On of my favorite moments is when everybody sang happy birthday to her. She became very nervous and held on to me. Her face had an expression that said " How do they all know its my birthday and why are they all singing about it." It was adorable.

Too hot for clothes

Grandparents, aunt and uncle

Yummy desserts Ellen made

Jessy and pade

Trying to put on her new pants

Dora cake

Jessie and our Cousin Erik

Playing with her new blocks

She got nervous when everyone sang to her

They said it was very warm and felt like bath water haha

Pool time :)

Liyah loves the pool. Whether its the little kiddy pool or the huge pool at the ymca. If she could, she would totally live in the pool haha. I dont have a huge story to go a long with this but i thought it would be cute to show some pictures :)

The reason

I haven't been able to keep up on my post about Liyah lately. Part of it is because I had nothing to talk about. Now it's because I have been working. Yep, that's right. Yvonne finally got a J O B :)
It has been weird and very challenging to juggle both. I use to be a work a holic but now I can't over work myself because Liyah wont get the attention she needs from me.
I love my job and I can see myself being here for awhile. I work at jc Penney :).
With that being said I don't always get to see Liyah on her adventures because I'm not here.  I promise to get better though :)

What you doin?

That has been liyah's phrase for the last couple weeks.  At first it was cute because she doesn't say a whole lot of full sentences. But now,  I just want to go run and hide haha. This is a scenario of what goes down.

Me: *sitting watching blues clues
Liyah : mom
Me: yes honey
Liyah: what you doin
Me: watching blues clues
Liyah :ohh. Otayotay

Liyah: mom what you doin? Me still watching blue Liyah : ohh otay Everything I do is questioned. Makes me scared. I know when she learns more words, more questions will start to pop up

Stung by a bee

 

You know when you tell your child to not to do something, and you see them not listening to you so you think " I guess they will just have to learn for themselves." Well that happened today. Jaliyah got stung by a Bee for the first, and most likely, not the last time in her life.

 It might not seem like that big of a deal being stung by a bee, but for me it was. Two reasons 1) I am a mom and i thought she was going to die 2) My mom and my siblings(me included) have never been stung by a bee so i didn't know how to take care of the 

sting.

That is as bad as it got.

 

 Liyah loves animals and bugs. She doesn't have any fears, actually, she is a huge dare devil. Well we were doing a photo shoot today( My brother got a awesome new camera) My brother is trying to build his portfolio and used Liyah and my sister as models. Jaliyah, being curious as she is, found a bush that bees kept coming out of. I told her to leave it alone but she was so excited that she found out where they were going she just couldn't help herself. 

Crying her little eyes out

 

 All I hear is her screaming. She comes running saying "Bee" "Neck". At least I know what happened. I was worried she might be allergic, thankfully she wasn't. She cried for about 10 minutes and then we everything was ok again. 

She is saying "Stop"

 My brother got some pretty good shots. Jaliyah didn't really want to be an awesome model today, but he still made it work. :)

Not wanting to take a picture

Still not taking the picture

Finished product :)

Bumping up and down in my little red wagon

 Well, actually its a blue-ish green-ish color, not red. My sister babysits a couple times a week and the lady she works for was kind enough to give Liyah this wagon. I have been wanting to get her one so its really cool that she has one that i didn't have to pay for.

 The youngest kid is about 8, so the wagon is kind of old. Not too bad though. My step dad had to fix one of the wheels. You can't fix something with out having an assistant, luckily for him Liyah was kind of enough to lend a hand.

After grandpa fixed the wagon we decided to take a walk around the neighborhood. I don't know why i thought this would be fun. Well, Liyah liked it. I on the other hand have a really buff arm from this trip. Good exercise if you want to look at the positives.

 No trip is complete for this little girl with out making stops to pick flowers or point out everything we pass. Trees, plants, flowers,cars,house.. you name it, liyah will tell you about it. It was nice to get her out the house even though the weather was sort of gloomy. She loves this wagon. I can tell she has a lot of plans for it for this coming summer.

Look at the happy baby

Loves picking flowers

Can't drive with open doors

Showing me the "leaves". That is what she was saying

 Side note. My parents just bought her a multi purpose table that she can color on and also use to eat dinner and pretty much anything else you can think of. Very nice table from Ikea. Erase most of the crayon marks and is very sturdy. Liyah Loves it.