Bath time and ponytails

Mina loves to take baths. If you just mention the word, bath, she runs upstairs to the bathroom and tries to get in the tub. Whether it's a bath by herself with the tub filled with water, or a shower with mom or dad, she is all over it. She really likes to take bubble baths because she loves bubbles, and Elmo is on the bubble bottle. The only thing she doesn't like too much about bathing is rinsing her hair out. She tries to climb up the side of the tub to get away from us. Haha.

When Mina is brushing her teeth, I like to play with her hair. I've tried putting it into a single ponytail in the back lately. Most of it is long enough, but I still have to pin the front of her hair back with a clip or bow. I think it looks super cute and it makes her look less like a baby which is kind of sad. I really can't believe how much she has grown. She really isn't a baby anymore. She's starting to form small sentences and copies everything Dru and I do. She's a whiz on our ipods. She knows how to turn them on and scroll through to find her games or videos and she knows how to play the games! It's amazing how fast she picks things up. She's so smart. I just love her so much!

One more cute story about Mina. She has three stuffed animals she sleeps with every night. 2 bears and a puppy. For the longest time, she wouldn't get out of her crib unless she had all 3 animals with her. She would bring them downstairs and just throw them on the floor until it was time to go to bed again. She'd gather them up and take them to bed with her again. Well, Dru and I got kind of tired of hauling them up and down, especially because she would never play with them. So, one morning, Dru decided that the animals needed to stay in the crib to go night night. He and Mina laid them each down on the pillow and put her blanket over them so they could go to sleep. She was totally okay with it. Now when she wakes up, she lays them each on her pillow and covers them with the blanket and says, "night, night, bear and bear and puppah!" It's so cute.