A couple of times Taylyn hits me I tell her that it is not nice to hit people. Well she has caught on and Cody was teasing her the only day and she took his face in her hands and told him "that not nice Daddy!" with a serious look on her face. At least I know she is understanding what I am telling her. She also told Tony that he was not nice because he was throwing her Mickey guys. She gave him a look that could kill and informed him that he was not being nice to throw her guys!
Taylyn started out saying prayers so good when she first started. We have since then moved through a few stages of learning about prayers. At first she would repeat everything we said and keep her arms folded the entire time. Then she moved to it being almost a battle to get her to say them or fold her arms. She is slowly getting better if we ask her what we do during prayers before we start, but lately she will say half the prayers with us and then goes off on her own blessing the tiger in her belly to be healthy and strong and to sleep good. Cody and I try so hard to keep a straight face but she continues to say it waiting for one of us to crack. Then they other day at church was did a great job at folding her arms during the opening prayer and sacrament prayer. Cody and I praised her and she noticed that I still had my arms folded, she said not so quietly, "mommy unfold u arms, prayer all done." At this point she looks over and realizes that Maile, Linda and Rich still had their arms folded and loudly told each of them to unfold their arms. She can't quite figure out that talking quiet at home and talking quiet at church is the same thing. She will not whisper when we are at church and she is so loud.
She has really taken to singing. She loves to sing and knows quite a few songs to sing. Sometimes she will ask us to sing with her and other times she asks us to stop the she will do it herself. She loves to sing, The Wheels on the Bus, Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, The Ensey Wensy Spider, I Am A Child of God, Old McDonalds, ABC's, Head Shoulders Knees and Toes (really fast), Once Their Was a Snowman, Bubble Gum! We put her in bed the other night about 8:30 and around 9:00 we could hear her singing all sorts of songs and talking to her Mickey Mouse guys. She sang for over an hour before finally falling asleep and not once did she call for us to come in. We just sat and listened and laugh at her. She sounded so cute.
Cody set up the fish tank and then she got to feed them, which was just as exciting to her. However, less than 24 hours later, her room and the hall stunk so bad that Cody had to flush one of the fish to see if we could save the other three. They lasted about 12 days and then I found one of them dead and the other was looking quite sick. I flushed the dead one and later that night Cody flushed the others because they looked so sick. Taylyn was telling everyone, "my fishies go in my bathroom to heaven!" I guess it is good she is still little enough to think it is that simple. 
We were just going to wait to get her some new fish but she kept telling us that Nana and Maile were going to take her to the Dollar Store to buy more fishes. Little does she know it wasn't the dollar store and they were not $1. So we took her to Walmart and she was in heaven again. She was loving the fish and wanted them all. We settled on a blue and pink fish and then a sucker fish to help clean the tank. The blue is Daddy, pink is Taylyn and I am the sucker fish. I see where I rank on her list. These fish seemed to be doing much better because there is only three of them and they are a lot smaller than the last set. Hopefully we can keep them alive. Taylyn is really good to remember to feed them before her nap and it is a good thing because I would have forgotten to do it many days if she hadn't reminded me. She checks on them frequently and tells us that, "they good just still swimmen!"
Taylyn has not had bangs for a couple of months because whenever I have tried to cut them she tells me, "no Mommy, my Bonnie do it." I finally made an appointment to get mine cut so her Bonnie cut her bangs. She did get a little nervous and wanted to hold my hand. I still haven't cut the rest of her hair because I am scared she will loose her curls if we do. 
Taesi came to play the other day. I think Taylyn was so excited to have someone besides grownups to play with. They played and played and then sat together to watch Dora and have a snack. This was the only time they stayed in one place for longer than 5 minutes, but they sure had fun.
Cody has to do exercises at home to help build up the strength in his leg. Taylyn has decided she need to exercise with him as well every morning. She watches him to see what he is doing and then tries to do exactly what he is doing. It is so funny to watch. She loves to be just like her Daddy!
Still trying to be like her Daddy!
I set Taylyn up a place on the ground to watch TV while I showered. She decided to have a little tea party with Mickey! 
and watch Dora of course!
Taylyn loves my niece Brittney. She made her sit by her and watch
We had Brittney watch her the other night so we could go to a dinner where Cody's parents were being honored. As soon as Brittney walked in she grabbed her hand and took her right downstairs to her playhouse. When we got home Cody asked her what she did with Brittney and she told him,"we go see boys!" She said it like it was nothing and moved on to something else. We laughed so hard. Brittney had taken her to a Inter mural Basketball game to see one of her friends play. Cody didn't know how he felt about the fact that his 2 year old daughter we going out to check out the boys, but she sure had fun and keeps asking for "her Brittie to come back and play!" She sure loves her. 
