Summing Up The Smiths: Smart Sue

My sweet baby Suzy is growing up entirely too quickly. She learns new things daily and shocks me by her vocabulary/actions constantly. In my eyes, she is a genius! She will be two on January 7, 2014. Seems like I was planning her first birthday just yesterday.

Some Amazing Facts about Ella Suzanne Smith:

1. She knows every single character's name on Mickey Mouse Club House. She still watches it nonstop when we are at home, but has recently started to watch Max and Ruby when we are in the car. My favorite characters to hear her talk about are: "Goooopy and Daaaazy" (Goofy and Daisey).

Sue Baby with her WoWo, fountain Sprite, and necklaces.

2. She knows all her numbers, but doesn't get them in the correct order 99% of the time. She usually says: 1,4,7,9,10 and leaves 2, 3,5,6,8 out. She only really uses those numbers when she is going up or down stairs. When counting objects she completely leaves them out. Her favorite number seems to be 7. She says it a lot.

She was soooo good in Wal Mart one day that she got all kinds of new hair bows and popcorn :)

Seven seems to be her favorite number. She repeats it more than the others. She pronounces it, "seben".

3. Her favorite colors seem to be purple and orange. When she sees those colors she immediately lets me know that she sees them. If I ask her what color a bus is she will tell me yellow, but she doesn't volunteer the information. She does know all her basic colors most of the time: red, green, yellow, orange, blue, purple, pink

Her favorite spot at our house... The kitchen counter.

4. She amazes me how she remembers people's names. We have a lot of people in our family and a lot of close friends, and she never disappoints them by calling them by the wrong name!

Suzy and her Aunt LOLO.

5. On most Thursdays and Fridays Suzy goes to Tattle Tales. Monday-Wednesdays she spends with Memaw. She can tell which location she is heading to immediately when we get on 740. If we go straight to 51 she knows we are going to Memaw's. If we get on 55 she knows we are going to Tattle Tales. Usually on those days she starts whining OR talking about her friends. There really is no telling if she is going to want to go to daycare or not. Some days she loves it. Some days she hates it.

Suzy and all her friends in Mrs. Amy's class!

6. When it is bedtime she wants her "banket" and her "WoWo" (baby). She gets those two items and has to have them perfectly positioned in her bed. She flips and flops, tosses and turns, and grunts and grumbles until she has everything perfectly arranged. As soon as it is the way she likes it she is quickly asleep.

That is a vibrating neck pillow for the bath tub. She is obsessed with it. If I would let her I think she would sleep just like that.

7. She got in my car one afternoon at Mimi's house while I was talking to Casey and Melissa in the driveway. I had taken the keys out of the ignition and rolled the driver side window down. She loves to play like she is driving, so she was pretending while we were chatting. She realized I had left my keys in the car after a few minutes. She grabbed my keys, picked my car key, put it in the ignition, and started trying to figure out what to do next. Really, how did she know which one was my actual car key? Was it just luck? I seriously don't think so!

It was so cold that we had to bring the Trike inside over Thanksgiving Break!

8. She knows that Suzy starts with an "S" and can identify which letter is an "S". She also knows that "S" says "ssssssssss".

Beautiful Hair!

We were shopping in Target. She needed to get a closer look at that barn. I think she put it on her Santa list.

And, I will leave you with a pretty funny yet embarrassing story.... If someone gets a laugh out of this, it was well worth publishing it.
When Scott and I got married some of my friends hosted a lingerie shower for me. At the shower I got loads of pretty stuff, but since then I have lost a substantial amount of weight as well as become a mom. Those two things left me without a choice...... I put all my pretties up in a box and stashed it in the extra bedroom closet. I put all the goodies in a pink Victoria's Secret box that doesn't have a very sturdy lid. One afternoon over Thanksgiving Break I decided that I needed to clean that closet out. I had the door open most of the afternoon taking stuff out and reorganizing. I apparently left the door open and the pink flashy box caught Suzy's eye while I was cooking supper....