November already?!

~ Ashley Jane Johnson ~

Here we are over at Grandma and Grandpa J's. We've spent a lot of weekends over there lately while our realtors show the house.

In the woods behind Grandma & Grandpa J's. The colors were beautiful.

My big girl!

Here we are at our annual pumpkin patch outing. Matt, Ashley and I rode on Grandpa Randy's 4-wheeler all the way from their house to the pumpkin patch. Ashley's wearing the little bumble bee fleece coat we bought her for $6. The hood has little eyes and antennas.

Friday was Halloween and although Ashley doesn't eat candy, we did take her to see Grandpa & Grandma J. We dressed her up as a clown. This picture is just before we put the outfit on.

Ashley the clown. She didn't care for the outfit at all. It pretty much came off as soon as we got to Grandpa & Grandma's. Grandpa & Grandma kept her overnight on Halloween. Matt and I went out for a couple hours. It was fun to see the costumes.

Ashley on her little hot wheel at G&G J's.

Ashley in her car seat on the way home from my cousin Riley's 5th birthday party. She was sure happy even though she was hungry and it was 6:30pm and we had just left the cities!

Riley donated her favorite Elmo chair to Ashley. We are so thankful for all of the wonderful hand me downs. Ashley is in love with her new chair. It's light enough that she can carry it from room to room.

Evidently our kitty loves Ashley's new Elmo chair too! I think she slept there all night.

I took this picture this morning. All my girls looking out the window waiting for daddy to come out of the garage.

Here is a video of Ashley hopping around the kitchen. She is saying "hop, hop, hop"!

Here is a video of Ashley helping Daddy build the Cobra. She loves to spend time in the garage with her Daddy.

19 Months Old!

Ashley Jane...

Here's my little peanut getting up from her nap. She's just getting SO big. On Sept 14th, Matt and I also celebrated our 6 year anniversary.

On of Ashley's favorite things to do is lay down on a big pile of blankets. As of Friday 10/10 Ashley can now say blankey. She still says kee for her small blanket but all other blankets and blankeys.

Here's Ashley getting ready to go for a walk up to the park. We like to walk to the park because the park has side by side slides that Ashley and I can go down together.

Here's Ashley with Maddy. Maddy loves to squeal as loud as she can. As you can also see, Ashley now carries her kee and ducky. In fact, she is obsessed with ducks. If she hears the geese on the lake, she squeals with excitement and begs for you to take her outside or hold her up in the window to see the ducks. She then tucks her arms into her armpits and flaps her arms like the ducks. It's adorable.

Maddy and Ashley having a thumb sucking contest. Their both the "best at that".

My little sweetheart! I left the ponies out for the day and she looked like a completely different kid. In this picture she was sitting at the breakfast bar eating doritos. She's a big girl!

Here she is enjoying her slide and the nice fall weather.

Yesterday for Ashley's 19 month birthday, we went to visit Violet and Henry for a cookie decorating/halloween party. Here is Ashley and Violet posing with Drama and Vince the goats. Maddy and Allie were there too...just not pictured above. It was a lot of fun. The kids loved decorating...and eating the cookies...so did us mommas.

Here Ashley and daddy sit down by the lake taking in the nice morning while searching for ducks.


What else is new this month? Well, Ashley now has 14 teeth...the last two were miserable. She was up every 2 hours or so crying oweeee, mommeee, oweeeee. Strange moment- she can now tell me when things hurt and she also decided she didn't want to take any medicine. The days of being able to simply squeeze tylenol into her mouth are over... What else? Oh, she went poopie in the potty at daycare! This only happened once, but none the less, it was exciting! Ashley can now repeat just about anything I ask her to say. This morning my favorite was how she said waffles.

Our house is officially on the market. We've had open houses all weekend and let me tell you what a chore it is to keep the house showcase clean with a 1 1/2 year old and a husband. If we all survive this transition it will be a miracle. I start my new job on 10/20.

18 Months Old...A YEAR and a HALF!!!

Ashley Jane- 17 Months Old

Here Ashley and Grandma stare into the lake...my guess is that they were talking about the big bass I was about to catch. Yep, I won the contest and caught the first and the biggest fish of the night. See the big raft in the background? Grandpa Randy bought that for the weekend...it has a mesh bottom, sits 4 and comes equipped with a floating cooler. Ashley enjoyed every moment in the raft and bounced from Grandma to Grandpa to Momma to Daddy.

Here Ashley enjoys her very first DQ cone in a cup. She of course LOVED it.

We took Ashley to the Ki Chi Saga celebration a few weekends ago. The festivities included an old farmer who packs all kinds of farm animals and household pets into the smallest trailer you've ever seen. Ashley enjoyed following the animals around and playing with the bunnies.

Here's Ashley scootin' around the house in her ducky slippers.

See all of her beautiful teeth? She's got 12 teeth now!

Ashley had to bring a family photo into daycare to put into the daycare photo album. I searched high and low for a recent picture of the three of us and couldn't find one. We have tons of pictures of Ashley, a few of her with either Matt or I but none of the three of us. Anyhooooo, that prompted us to take a quick family photo while we enjoyed a beautiful day at Ashley's friend Elsa's, 2nd birthday party.

Here's Ashley on her 18 month birthday.

What else has happened this month? Ashley continues to learn a handful of words a day. When she gets fussy, I try to distract her by asking her if she can say, red, purple, daddy, school, Molly, Elsa, Grandpa, Grandma etc. We play this game till Momma can't think of another word to test her on. On our refrigerator we have a picture of Ashley with her Mommy, Grandpa and cousin Jessica. I point to the people in the picture and say their names and Ashley will repeat their names. She thinks this is really fun and made sure to point out that I forgot to mention the most important thing in the picture...her beloved KEE (her blankey)! It made me laugh so hard. Tonight while she paged through one of her books, she pointed to the bunnies on the page and said, "bunny". I didn't prompt her or anything. Bunny isn't even one of the animals that we regularly practice. So COOL! Her favorite indoor activity is to run and fall into a pile of blankets. She rolls around and just loves all blankets. She's picked up a few new dance moves...in addition to the Frankenstein dance, she now spins around slowly and she has started to try to jump. It's adorable.