25 Random Things about Ashlyn

1. She stayed in her crib until she was almost 3. The only reason she went into a big girl bed is because we needed her crib for Brady.

2. She loved playing in her crib. She would climb in and out all during the day. She would ask someone to "cover me up with all animals".

3. She was and still is so independent. She would yell "I can do it" when you would try to help her with something...especially when she was buckling in to her car seat.

4. We had a hard time thinking of a girl's name when I was pregnant with her. We had a boy's name all picked out (Brady) but we knew we were having a girl. Her daddy came up with Ashlyn.

5. Her nick name is "Google Puff" which her daddy named her too when she was born.

6. Her middle name, Parker, is my mother's maiden name.

7. When she started to eat table food, she ate everything that I cooked and loved it. Now she is so picky...she eats macaroni and cheese at pretty much every meal.

8. She doesn't like peanut butter.

9. When she first started dancing, she would flap her right arm up and down like a chicken...it was so cute.

10. She fell down one step in our old house when she was 18 months old. She was carrying a sippy cup which she land on in her mouth. That is why she looks like she lost one of her front teeth. It is still there, but it stopped growing and is now disintegrating.

11. She calls her "little giraffe" blanket, Kiki, because that is how she first said blankie and it stuck.

12. She still has 2 of her Kiki's, one is so torn up it looks like it has gone through a shredder.

13. I think she still sucks her thumb at night...she has been working hard to stop.

14. She still loves to dress up in princess dresses and costumes.

15. She plays with matchbox cars just like her Mommy did.

16. She is a computer whiz...loves playing on the computer for hours.

17. Her two front bottom teeth are starting to wiggle.

18. We can't trust her with scissors because she cut through the electrical cord on her alarm clock (because she wanted to be able to get up at any time and not at 6, 7, or 8) and she also cut a big chunk of her hair off.

19. She loves making "houses" with all the couch pillows in the bonus room.

20. Her favorite color is purple...this year.

21. She can already add. She will come up with her own addition problems...like, three 3's and one 4 is...13.

22. She can remember words to songs after only hearing them a few times. She says that when she is 16 she is trying out for "American Idol"...I hope the show is still on the air 11 years from now.

23. She loves to take a shower in the morning with her daddy.

24. She will say, "don't look at me" then hide behind a couch and strip down to her underpants and run around the house.

25. She is a puzzle expert. She has been putting puzzles together since she was 2 that were meant for 3 year old children.