Halfway thru CFD

Halfway through CFD (Cheyenne Frontier Days) and wishing we were done now. I'm posting this from Volk's computer in Cheyenne where I've been the last couple of days and am here until Sunday. The week has gone really good but being pregnant and chasing after an 18 month old in the 90 some-odd degree heat gets to be a bit much by the end of the day. Laney got a new rope at CFD that she loves to capture Charlie Horse with. She doesn't quite hold it or throw it correctly yet but she loves catching stuff, she says "ha" and laughs in a growly bear kind of voice...it's pretty funny. She also had a mini (turned out to be not so necessary) trip to the ER Saturday night. She was running around Volk's living room on the balls of her feet barefoot, and her ankle just gave out. She tried walking on it several times and would just sit and cry holding her ankle. So we took her in to have it checked out. Turns out that she sprained it...they just gave her some ibuprofen and told us to keep her from running...yeah right!! But she seems to be doing lots better. She was quite the ham bone with the ER staff though. They asked her where it hurt and she pointed to her ankle each time. But while she was sitting there she just was making adorable faces and saying funny things that had the staff in stitches! No pun intended there really. Laney is now saying "boo boo" for her owies, "POPpy" for the potty, and "toe". She also is saying the letter "V" very well.

18 months!!!

18 months already, seriously the time just flys by so fast! We are right in the middle of Cheyenne Frontier Days...we are supplying the calf roping cattle, and Laney is head cowgirl. She even makes notes in her book during the runs. She did however, get bucked off Newt and gave herself a little scrape on her lip...all Newt did was stand up, poor bunkin. During Cheyenne Frontier Days, there are air national guard planes that fly really low overhead all the time because the grounds sits across the street from the guard. The planes are seriously loud and Laney doesn't really like them. Whatever she is doing she just stops and starts running towards me looking worried. But one morning I pointed to the C-130 flying over and said that Uncle Volk was flying it...she kind of frowned at me and thought about that. When the next C-130 flew over she just looked upwards and pointed then waved. She is now saying "my" in front of lots of things..."my dadda" "my mommy" "my puppy", and also saying "joey" although it's more like "yoey". She has a baby animal book that she loves to read (among many books) and there is a baby kangaroo in there and it talks about the joey. The other morning she picked up that book, and sat down to read it by herself. She makes a bunny sign and says "hop, pop, pop, yummy yummy" for the bunnies eating lettuce, turns the page and makes the splash water sign for the ducklings swimming. Then she says "meow" and signs milk for the little kitten drinking milk, and growls for the polar bear cubs. Then she turns the page and says "yoey". I stopped and looked and she said it again "yoey" for the page with the joey hiding in his moms pouch. Her little voice is seriously sooo cute! She really loves to tell me that she is hungry, then when I ask her what she wants she points to her wolf toy...so I ask her if wolf puppy is hungry and she laughs and nods. She eats with wolf puppy a lot :) Oh yes, and one last thing...Laney is going to have a little sister :) We had our ultrasound last week and it looks like another little girl. We are so excited!! Here is a video of Laney last night...we came home from Cheyenne and she was needing some cut loose time so she had a run through the sprinklers...I know...she is seriously chaos in a can.