Helping Dig the Garden

Hey what's this?


It seems pretty fun

This is it?

Oh my this is great!

Who is this guy on my tarp?

He's not so bad after all.

I love helping daddy in the garden.

A Visit from Snow White

Today we had a visit from Snow White! Isn't she adorable?

We also went to our first library time today. It is for birth-4 years. Helen was the youngest one there but she did great. It was 30 minutes and she looked out the window and at the book. I helped her do the motions to the songs and at the end of the song when everyone clapped she was quite certain they were all clapping for her. And I must say that she did an excellent job so I can see where the confusion came from. She did start to get a little antsy towards the end of the 30 minutes when we were all choosing books to look at. She kept crawling over to the people next to us trying to take their books. I'm pretty sure she thought they were hers. She even got a teddy bear stamp on her hand when we left. I thought she would have fun with it trying to get it off and figure out what it was. She never noticed it. It's gone now. After the story time we went and checked out a book and 2 CDs. She has enjoyed the CDs but we haven't' read the story yet so I can't say how she feels about it.

Helen has started puckering out her lips making the duck lips again. I think it's rather cute.

Behind Bars

Put In

Every since Helen figured out how to get toys out I have continually showed her how to "put in." I know this skill would not come for quite some time but I wanted to get a jump start on it. Up to this point I have reaped no reward for my effort. But today she did it! While playing with her Busy Ball Popper I was showing her how to put the balls back in when they popped out. And then it happened...she did it! Not only did she do it once, she did it three times!

After her nap she was in her play area playing and I was making supper in the kitchen. I looked over at her and she was playing nicely with her books and then I looked at the Busy Ball Popper and this is what I saw



To make in even better Carson took the monkeys out and helped her put the balls in and she hit the button and one of her toys popped out with the balls. I guess now she needs to figure out that not everything goes in the Busy Ball Popper.

New Pastime

Carson has had to shovel our driveway two times so far this year. Which isn't to bad if you ask me. The first time it wasn't to deep at all. Then Thursday night we had a snow storm. This is not be be confused with Lake Effect Snow. Apparently a snow storm entails high winds that make visibility very difficult. I was not awake to see the wind because it was windy in the middle of the night. The next day, however, we had a nice amount of snow and Helen had a new favorite thing to do, sit at the window and watch Daddy shovel.

Eggs

Helen loves scrambled egg yolks. She does not love her baby food anymore. We are trying to be sneaky and get the baby food in when we can. So for breakfast we were putting a scoop of baby food fruit on the spoon and then a piece of egg on top of that so Helen would open her mouth for the spoon. This worked very well for about a week and then Helen got smart. She opens her mouth nice and wide for the spoon, we start to move the spoon closer to her mouth, she shuts her mouth slightly so that all that will go in is the egg.

I did not have a picture to go with this blog post. I know usually I put up a random picture of Helen but this time I am putting up a picture of the icicles that are outside of our garage.

MMMM...Water

For the longest time Helen has refused to drink water or juice from her sippy cup. We have tried and tried but she just doesn't seem to like it. Even though we decided that we weren't going to put either of those in her bottle because her bottle is for milk, we even tried that at one point but there was no luck. Yesterday we finally figure it out! I was in the bathroom using mouthwash and Helen was in the floor playing with her bath toys. I heard a strange noise and being the curious mom that I am I looked down at Helen to see that she had put the head of her squirty turtle in her mouth and was sucking out the water that was still in it from the last night's bath. I found this rather disgusting, though I have read that it is okay for the to drink small amounts of bathwater. I told her it was good that she was drinking water but to let me put some fresh water in it, so I did and she drank it all.