30 questions with a 3 year old.

1. What is your name? Ila Vieu Becker.  My name is Ila Vieu Becker
2. How old are you? holds up 3 fingers
3. What is your favorite color? red
4. What is your favorite toy? "aminal"
5. What is your favorite fruit? grapes
6. What is your favorite movie? i want grapes movie!
7. What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch? Shrimp and noodles
8. What is your favorite outfit? dresses
9. What is your favorite game? I want to play church!
10. What is your favorite snack? cookies 
11. What is your favorite animal? dog
12. What is your favorite song? Jesus loves me
13. What is your favorite book? The Bible 
14. Who is your best friend? Grace, her name is Grace
15. What is your favorite cereal? Kixs

Here she is, a week before her birthday, but cute as can be!

16. What is your favorite thing to do outside? swing 
17. What is your favorite drink? apple juice
18. What is your favorite holiday? we're home!
19. What do you like to take to bed with you at night? sleep with the babies
20. What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast? i want to eat snacks. Bite!
21. What do you want for dinner on your birthday? happy birthday with the cake!
22. Where do you want to work? I want to work with Daddy!
23. Where does daddy work? Daddy's work in the truck!
24. Where does Mommy work? mommy work in the van.
25. When you dream at night, what do you dream about?  pinecones
26. What do you like to cook?  Corn
27. What is your favorite chore?  I work in the dryer (moving clothes to the dryer with mommy)
28. Can you tell me a secret? whispers in my ear: "you are goofball!"
29. What is your favorite thing to do at school? ride bikes and I want to sing the bye bye song.
30. What makes you happy? happy time.

6 months! by Nicole

My little lady, Chessidy Light, is 6 months old today!  I can hardly believe it's been 6 months since you were brought into this world.  You were one BIG baby, and that hasn't changed!

Here you are on your first day in the world.

At 6 months old, you are wearing 9-12 month clothes.  I haven't weighed you yet today, but I'm guessing you are about 19 pounds.

Here you are today, at 6 months old.  All smiles.

You smile, smile, smile!  You love people and smile at them if they make eye contact with you.  You LOVE your big sister.  You ALWAYS smile at her and look for her when you hear her voice.  You don't mind when she squeezes your cheeks too hard, lays on you, pushes you down or takes your toys (yet).  You just smile at her while she does this, and I'm pretty sure you like it!  And I can't forget to mention your dimples!  You have the sweetest dimples ever!  One on each cheek and a third on yous upper lip (on the left side). They add so much character to your smiles!

You and your big sister, playing with each other!

You LOVE baths and showers.  You are a water baby through and through.  You love splashing and you even think it's funny when you splash your face!  You like it when Marma gives you a bath the most though, I'm certain of it!

Here you are after a bath, with a sweet hairdo.  Thanks Marma!

You are hard to get a laugh out of.  You will smile SO BIG and it seems like you are about to burst with laughter, but you just keep on smiling.  The first time you laughed was about a month ago.  Ila was playing with you and laughing in your face and you laughed back.  Then Ila laughed again, and you laughed again!  It went on for a few minutes and my heart about burst out of my chest I was so filled with joy!  You are laughing a little bit more these days, but it takes a lot of work to get that silly laugh out of you!

You babble, babble, babble!  "Ahbah" is the most common expression.  You love to play with your toes and babble, babble, babble.

yep, here you are chewing on your toes, and you were babbaling away!

You LOVE eating food.  We've only had rice cereal and oatmeal so far, but I think we're going to start exploring the world of squash in another week or so.  You still love nursing, but you seem to get excited/jealous when you see us eating at the table!

nom nom nom

You can finally roll over from your back to your front!  What a big girl you are.  You finally mastered it just the other day!  I'm thankful that you only do it  when prompted right now, but gone are the days of napping on mommy and daddy's bed!  It's also almost time to move you to your crib.  You sit up so well now, and you roll over.  It's only a matter of time before you can get into the sitting up position on your own, and then the bassinet will have to go away.  I will miss you sleeping right next to me!

You are such a sweet baby and you bring us so much joy!  The Lord was right on when He gave us the idea for your name.  You are a delight, and you are a constant reminder of His lovingkindness!  We love you Chessidy, don't grow up too fast, I don't want to miss it!