Her cousin Maddy, from Utah, taught her how to say "cheese" when you take a picture. She closes her eyes when she says it, too cute! This is her saying "cheese" to the camera.
We've been busy this last week and have had to be gone from the house a lot. Guess she was going through toy withdrawals. She was so excited to stay home and play with her all things today.
And in playing with her toys... that now means climbing on everything, that's not meant to be climbed on... but whatever... She's standing on the second floor of the doll house. I know this because, she fell after I took the picture.

We had a special family night on Friday, pizza for dinner, ice cream and watched "cloudy with a chance of meatballs" (we had never gotten around to watching it). Ally used to only eat the home made pizza that I cooked and only off her daddy's plate, while sitting in his lap (spoiled much?), but now she's discovered the joy of eating her own pizza, in her own chair. I love her fat kid happy face in these pictures. She picked out her own slice and everything.
She has also stopped referring to herself as "baby" and as moved on to calling herself "me". So all day long our conversation goes something like this: "Me go", "Me, Me, Me!" "Me love dad" "me see george" (curious george), "me, book" etc.

She has also discovered the sprinkler! We will have to get pictures of that soon. She's picked out a swim suit at the store and as soon as I have 8 dollars, I'm going to buy it for her to run in the sprinkler.

She loves to say prayers. She can fold her arms and close her eyes with no help and will stay that way till we end the prayer with amen. But, one prayer is not good enough for my Ally. We have to say several extra prayers every day. Usually sometime each morning, she will decide that it's time to pray and we pray for all her cousins, all her friends, her and her daddy. She is super sweet and I am so glad that she loves to pray.