A little about Mamie:
She loves her food and cooking toys. Her nursery leaders told me that the first toys she usually heads for in nursery is the kitchen stuff. I'm not sure if she was doing that before or starting doing it after I bought her some play food and pots and pans from a yard sale, but she LOVES them. It is definitely her favorite thing to play with at our house. I guess she likes to cook like her daddy. :-) She likes to put the play food in the little play pots and pans and stir them around. She likes to hand me and Wade food and then have us hand it back to her. She could literally do that for 20 minutes.
She loves to sing, some of her favorites are "I am a Child of God", "I Love to see the Temple", "Families can be together forever", "if your happy and you know it" and "abc's" and "B-I-N-G-O" although we often make it M-A-M-I-E (as in "There was a mommy who had a girl and Mamie was her name") . Sometimes she likes to mix together "I am a child of god" and "abc's". She usually starts crying in the bath when I make her lay down her head to wash her hair but as soon as I start singing, she is okay. She also has really been enjoying the "Sound of Music" songs. Especially do-re-mi. She always says, "ti" along with me when I sing and gets other parts now and then.
She also loves to talk on the phone. She pretends that anything and everything is a phone and puts it to her ear and says, "heh-o? hi!"
She has learned to say, "catheter" and often says it when we change her diaper. :-) It sounds more like, "categer".
She does not like the grass and wont' move around much when we put her on it. She also doesn't seem to like stickers. It bothers her that they stick to her hand. Haha Once I tried to hand one to her and when it stuck to her she promptly tried to shake it off.
She loves beans and green beans. She likes to get food on her hands and rub them together like I do when I wash her hair. And then of course she pretends to wash her hair, and gets the food all in her hair. Sigh. She also likes to watch mommy get ready and likes to pretend to put lotion on herself.
She loves to say hi to everyone but a lot of the time just says, "Hi, Mamie!" to them. Everywhere we go she makes friends. I never go anywhere without people telling me how cute and friendly she is. Long before her actual birthday, we practiced with her asking, "How old are you gonna be?" and got her to say, "Two!" Now whenever we ask her how old she is, she also holds up two fingers, sometimes two sets of two fingers.
If she had it her way, she would probably sit in my lap all day long, drawing pictures all over my papers and "organizing" my desk. :-) She'll scoot over to Wade or me when we're at our desks, as close as she can get, and then look up at us with outstretched hands. Very hard to resist. :-)
She is such a sweetheart and I love being her mommy!
Mamie opening her present from Meme and Papa, a toy milk truck!
About to blow out her candles.....
Um, what am I supposed to do here???
And this is all where Mamie's American Idol career began. :-) We gave her both the Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music soundtracks. She especially loves the Sound of Music. Now she does a killer, "DoReMi" and is also getting really good at "Edelweiss". Between Wade's side of the families good voices and my singing to her a lot, she's destined for greatness! ;-)
Mamie and Daddy on Fathers Day
