Little Miss Chloie Kae

Chloie is getting so BIG! She is such a little person now it's crazy.
I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE being home with her, she is one hilarious, curious, crazy, fun little girl!
Here's just a little bit of what we've been up to lately.
She loves to "help" me when I'm working on and she acts so interested in everything I do, I hear a lot of "whats that?" and "why?" and "o I see".
 She loves to help me cook, she has to have her own spoon, or spatula and she likes to help me measure and add ingredients (I love to cook so its fun to have her be so interested in it as well).
Every morning we have to same routine (for the most part) she wanders into my room, helps me make beds and then she gets in the tub (She gets so excited about baths, they are her FAVORITE!") Then we get her dressed and make breakfast together. When we don't do this it makes for one ornery Chloie.
She's been so good with washing her hair and putting away all her toys when she is ready to get out I've started folding and sorting laundry while she is in the tub (which I do in the hallway just outside her bathroom So I can keep an eye on her, I swear I'm not that neglectful) and the other day I was folding and stopped watching her for a split second and I hear "OH NO, MOM! OH NO!" then giggling, so I look up and this is what she was doing....

Scared me to death, at first. Then I had to grab the camera and get a pic of this little monkey. She thought she was pretty funny and kept trying to climb back up. So after telling her NO a few times and saying "that scares mom, don't do that." she says "no no, ma!" and touches the handle and screams like she is terrified of it. I haven't had any problems with her climbing on it since. :)
She is back to sleeping through the night in her own bed, HOORAY! She got 4 new teeth in all at once (we are a little behind getting teeth, she didn't get her first til she was a year so we are still dealing with the teething stuff) so she was a little grumpy the past week... But now she's back to being Chloie. :) Which makes me VERY happy! She's always been such a easy baby that it kinda throws me for a loop when she is more... difficult... then I'm used to.
She is very friendly with our oven lately... her reflection is her best friend it seems. We go from dancing and singing and reading books to the oven to screaming, yelling angrily, and (fake) crying to the oven. It's pretty entertaining.
She is FINALLY starting to be more verbal about things (the sign language has helped out a lot with chloie) She is starting to say the words as she signs them instead of signing and whining, and has started saying short sentences with out signing. (which is a big deal) She's always been rather quiet so for her to try to communicate is so nice!
She is also developing a bit of separation anxiety... but only with Ben, if I leave it's no big deal but when he leaves she has a melt down. The other day she stood at the garage door while he was trying to leave and screamed "NO DADDY! NO!!!!" and cried and hung from the door nob. So he tried to give her hugs and kisses and calm her down but that resulted in her hanging on to his neck for dear life! When we finally pried her off she SOBBED into my hair and said "Bye, dad, see you!" between dramatic sobs for about 20 minutes. She really LOVES her daddy. :)


Even though I have the occasional frustrating day with Chloie. She really is the easiest kid and I am lucky to be able to be with her 24/7! I wouldn't want to miss a minute of her craziness! :)