New year, new layout

Maybe this will become more of a quarterly blog. Ha. I am offically going to quit adding a paragraph each infrequent post to apologize for my tardiness. From now on, consider any post one more than there was before. Maybe one day I will report the little things that make me laugh each day. Maybe...

So, as you all (if anyone even reads this?!) know, Holland has now been 2 for a full month! Crazy how the time flies. Her vocabulary is exploding more and more daily. She says the funniest things. A new thing she has started is every single time she falls down, runs into something, etc., the first thing out of her mouth is "Mo Mo did it!" (Mo Mo of course being Modoc, our dog...) Often times Modoc is not even in the same room, but I think she has learned that it is nice to have a scapgoat sometimes.

Another fun Holland-ism is her love for pretend chocolate. She will pick a specific spot and pick "chocolate" from it and then ask Joe and I (and Modoc...) if we would like some "tok-let". This will go on for a very long time often, but it makes me smile. I find it more funny because I honestly do not even believe we have ever had chocolate (minus some cocoa graham crackers, or something of the sort...)

Holland sadly got her first black eye a little over a week ago. She was dancing and spinning so fast in the living room, lost her balance and hit the table. She hit it just right, so that not only did it smack her eye, but her forehead as well. Poor girl looked like she lost a bad fight. There is still a trace of a bruise under her eye, but I think that the frequent doeses of arnica minimized the bruising and swelling.

Holland has developed quite the love for speed! Everything, everywhere she insists to "GO FAST!" She will run around in our living room, yelling "run fast" and then to mix it up will start to "run sssllllooooooow". She gets a kick out of the slow motion movements.

All right. I know that my attention span when reading other blogs stops after a few paragraphs, so better time to call it a day. I be right back to add a recent video of Holland helping me read one of her favorite books. Usually she does this with even more animation, but of course, everything changes with a camera in your face...