Sunday, April 24, 2011

Easter 2011

She loved her Easter care package from Grandma Terry & Grandpa Jim.!
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And she enjoyed her Easter card from Rebecca and Steve.

On Saturday we went to evening church services,
and she got to wear her new dress from Grandpa Tom.

 On Sunday morning, we volunteered in the children's nursery at church,
and she got to wear her new dress and hat from Grandma Terry & Grandpa Jim.

The Easter bunny brought her a new coloring book, chocolate,
her own set of pink gardening tools, and a bunny.

Happy Easter, everyone!!

March/April

She and Elmo are pretty close these days.
She loves to put him in her highchair so that she feed him, give him a drink,
and sometimes share her afternoon snack.  

 Whenever she goes out to the garage with she wants to sit on "Da-ee bike".
 It's lots of fun to push the "buttons".
 She's not too sure yet about the sound of it when it's running though.

A few weeks ago we went to a birthday party at Monkey Business,
a play gym here in town, and she had a blast.
 And so did her Dad! 
They really liked going down the big slide together! 
Slide video: 

Just being silly...
Last weekend we went to Ella's 2nd birthday party. 
She had fun playing with the sidewalk chalk.
 ...and helping Ella enjoy her birthday presents.

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

A favorite new pic

I don't know what it is about it, but I just LOVE this picture. 
I took it last week with my phone's camera, which doesn't usually take the best pics,
but this one turned out pretty adorable. 
She had found her Dad's hat that morning after he left for school, put it on saying "Da-eee, Haa"
(her words for Daddy's Hat), and wore it for the rest of the morning.

 She had also found some Burt's Bee's chapstick and had fun putting that on -
her lips, her chin, her cheeks, the table.... :)








Friday, April 8, 2011

Grace Feb/March 2011

With her cousin Byron in February.
With her cousin Carter - he always calls her "Baby Grace."  :)
Fun with Q-tips - fun to dump out, put in the box, dump out...
She likes to get the Swiffer out (hey, who am I to stop her??),
so we shortened the handle down to her size one day and she loved it.
Emma supervising the housework. 
She recently became really good at shapes and sorting them - this is a toy where each egg has a different shape on the bottom and you have to match them to their shape in the tray.  She's knows each shape by name, and even picks up the right egg the first time if we ask her to find a specific shape. 

In her chair from Grandpa Tom playing with her laptop toy from Grandma Terry & Grandpa Jim. 
...A tense moment in coloring for our little artist. 
This is HER chair and she does not like to share it with Daddy or anyone!
I gave her fruit snacks for the first time about a week ago, while she was seated in her high chair.  She didn't seem to be eating any, but I could only find a couple of them on the floor and a couple next to her in the high chair.  I was a little confused as to where the rest of them had gone - til she ran over to her chair to lay down.

Breakfast at the Capri last Saturday morning.

In the last two weeks, she has really started to like drawing and coloring.