I was playing with blocks with Lea last night and I said "We have to build it from scratch." She ran around me and began to scratch my back! It was so cute. Then she'd stand in front of me in a "I scratch your back, you scratch mine" scenario. She did that a few times, but when she'd stand infront of me she didn't always have her back to me, so I said "turn around." She then proceeded to twirl in a cirlce. I found myself in an adorable trap of symantics.
Also yesterday while riding in the truck with Dan and waiting for a train to pass Lea was singing to herself, not unusual. But Dan realized she was singing a whole song on her own. She sang:
Bah Bah
Sheep
...Wool
YES SIR!
... Ffffull
Master
Dame
LllllANE!
The last word is the most sing songy.
This morning she was singing Bah Bah black sheep again. Its a first... and just when I feel like I'm running out of firsts, here comes a pleasantly surprising one.
We've seen her try to do the itsy bitsy sprider on her own and she says "itsy bitsy" and does her hands in a very cute little spider like move, where she puts her two pinched fingers back and forth against each other. She knows all the last words and will sing along, but she doesn't sing the spider words by herself... or maybe just not that we've heard!
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Making up for lost time. Snapshots of March...
I did this backwards! The oldest photos are on the top right now and the newest are 3 posts down.
But here's a glimpse of our March.
One day that I had Lea all to myself while Dan was visiting his dad in the hospital (he is well on the mend now after a ruptured appendix and 3 weeks in the hospital). But while we had a girls day out I did Lea's hair. Our first sucessful ponytail attempt.
Then we had a great weekend of St. Patricks day. We went to the parade with some friends, including Wilder (3 month's younger than Lea) They were so adorable. Wilder wore his clan's tartan kilt. Very handsome! Lea on the other hand wore beads, a belly shirt (unintentional, she just kept showing her belly) and some styling glasses. Lea enjoyed much of the parade, but this first photo shows that she was a bit overwhelmed when we got there and the first thing that passed us was a fire truck with sirens at full blast. She did however get into the spirit with lots of beads and hands outstretched for more more more!
March then brought some sad days for us. I lost my Uncle Bud... to many Uncle Don, but to me Uncle Rat Fink. He was a fabulous and fun man. While he had been sick and through a lot for a long long time, he seemed invincible and continued to overcome all that afflicted him. So losing him was hard. Mom, Dan, Lea and I drove to Minnesota and for a funeral trip, we still had a nice visit with Dave, Marie & Joe. Lea would say Joooooooe! He became Lea's battle cry. We had a very nice dinner at Nye's Polonaise... a Polish steak house with gold sparkly booths and waitresses with seniority. Its got a beautiful 60s charm. What you might call "A real classy joint." You can see Lea liked it. It got a thumbs up from her!
On another weekend, we dressed up to go to the park one day. Not mom's brightest idea, wearing a dress to the park, but Lea made due. Its a great park with pea gravel that Lea loves to pour from one cup to another. Its also got lots of alcoves and wooden structures to hide and climb. This dress was bought for $1.50 at a consignment sale. It is so cute and retro 70s. I'm sure I had a dress just like it. I guess she should have worn it to Nye's to fit in with waitresses!
Is this not the absolute best photo! Like Mom, how do you work this thing? She has a digital camera that blew its circuit board or something, so she get to pretend to take pictures. She'll even say "click" But what a face!
And finally a recent photo (be sure to keep looking below because I've posted 3 posts today!) But this is at a birthday party for a 3 year old named Anna Harris. We had ice cream and got to tie dye shirts. Lea got messier eating cake than she did with the dye! Her tongue was blue all day from frosting! What a grin!
But here's a glimpse of our March.
One day that I had Lea all to myself while Dan was visiting his dad in the hospital (he is well on the mend now after a ruptured appendix and 3 weeks in the hospital). But while we had a girls day out I did Lea's hair. Our first sucessful ponytail attempt.
Then we had a great weekend of St. Patricks day. We went to the parade with some friends, including Wilder (3 month's younger than Lea) They were so adorable. Wilder wore his clan's tartan kilt. Very handsome! Lea on the other hand wore beads, a belly shirt (unintentional, she just kept showing her belly) and some styling glasses. Lea enjoyed much of the parade, but this first photo shows that she was a bit overwhelmed when we got there and the first thing that passed us was a fire truck with sirens at full blast. She did however get into the spirit with lots of beads and hands outstretched for more more more!
March then brought some sad days for us. I lost my Uncle Bud... to many Uncle Don, but to me Uncle Rat Fink. He was a fabulous and fun man. While he had been sick and through a lot for a long long time, he seemed invincible and continued to overcome all that afflicted him. So losing him was hard. Mom, Dan, Lea and I drove to Minnesota and for a funeral trip, we still had a nice visit with Dave, Marie & Joe. Lea would say Joooooooe! He became Lea's battle cry. We had a very nice dinner at Nye's Polonaise... a Polish steak house with gold sparkly booths and waitresses with seniority. Its got a beautiful 60s charm. What you might call "A real classy joint." You can see Lea liked it. It got a thumbs up from her!
On another weekend, we dressed up to go to the park one day. Not mom's brightest idea, wearing a dress to the park, but Lea made due. Its a great park with pea gravel that Lea loves to pour from one cup to another. Its also got lots of alcoves and wooden structures to hide and climb. This dress was bought for $1.50 at a consignment sale. It is so cute and retro 70s. I'm sure I had a dress just like it. I guess she should have worn it to Nye's to fit in with waitresses!
Is this not the absolute best photo! Like Mom, how do you work this thing? She has a digital camera that blew its circuit board or something, so she get to pretend to take pictures. She'll even say "click" But what a face!
And finally a recent photo (be sure to keep looking below because I've posted 3 posts today!) But this is at a birthday party for a 3 year old named Anna Harris. We had ice cream and got to tie dye shirts. Lea got messier eating cake than she did with the dye! Her tongue was blue all day from frosting! What a grin!
Easter... a little late
We had a very nice Easter. The weather turned on us a bit, including snow on Saturday before Easter, but it didn't keep the bunny away. We woke to Easter baskets for the whole family! Lea got some new bubble wands that make giant great bubbles and chocolate. She also got ju ju fish candy that she loved. She asks for fish, which used to mean goldfish crackers and now "fish" seems to mean candy fish please.
Lea said "Bunny" after dinnner pretty regularly for about a week as we finished off the cholate bunny. She was very cute eating the bunny.
When finding the Easter eggs that the Easter bunny so deftly "hid" in our back yard, Lea would squeal with surprise every time she found one. They were filled with cheerios, goldfish crackers and stickers! I think she would have been more thrilled with them if she hadn't had a big breakfast of bunny cakes (pancakes shapped like bunny heads) and candy. Oh so much candy!
We also decorated some eggs on Saturday. Lea enjoyed putting them in the "dip" and had to hit every color so she ended up with some pretty black eggs and green hands so she looked like the Hulk! She broke a few eggs, but what's Easter without a few broken eggs.
Lea said "Bunny" after dinnner pretty regularly for about a week as we finished off the cholate bunny. She was very cute eating the bunny.
When finding the Easter eggs that the Easter bunny so deftly "hid" in our back yard, Lea would squeal with surprise every time she found one. They were filled with cheerios, goldfish crackers and stickers! I think she would have been more thrilled with them if she hadn't had a big breakfast of bunny cakes (pancakes shapped like bunny heads) and candy. Oh so much candy!
We also decorated some eggs on Saturday. Lea enjoyed putting them in the "dip" and had to hit every color so she ended up with some pretty black eggs and green hands so she looked like the Hulk! She broke a few eggs, but what's Easter without a few broken eggs.
Sunday, April 22, 2007
Fishing at Tawakoni
Well there is much I've missed on this blog. I've got many pics and videos to catch up on. But for now we're spending a weekend at Grandma's in Emory and I only have access to this weekends pics. We went out to the state park, and while due to the low water levels it wasn't quite what we expected, we ended up finding a small pond where the fish wouldn't bother us and we had a great day.
Lea loved throwing rocks in the water and playing with bubbles. We had a really nice day. I appologize for the wind noise.
And a brilliant little girl gives her best shot at the alphabet. She misses a few, but gets them all in the right order! Oh and then is distracted by the ball bobber, but gives a big finish!
Lea enjoyed ... well there's not much better of a word than torture for what we did to that worm, but Lea enjoyed it and worm lived and we set him free in the marsh. He lucked out better than the worms that hit the hooks. No fish, but the worms didn't come back either. It was a great day for us, but a bad day to be a worm! hee hee The worm was in one of the tubs of water and she would pour it from one to the other. I would get the worm out of the water a couple times so she could see him move and the worm headed for cover under the bowl. We left him to rest there for a bit and then Lea would pick up the bowl and say "peek" I think the worm was thrilled to play peek a boo. Then Lea would say "mommy" and point at the worm, which meant "mommy pick up the worm and put him in the water so I can send him back on the worm slalom ride!"
Lea also got her shoes muddy. She was ok with that until she got mud on her toe and then our prim little thing pointed at her toe and said "ouch" I tried to explain the mud didn't hurt, but she wasn't happy until I brushed the dried mud off her big toe. She's a real outdoorsie type! She did enjoy holding grandma's fishing pole, but mostly she liked dipping the tip in the pond.
Lea loved throwing rocks in the water and playing with bubbles. We had a really nice day. I appologize for the wind noise.
And a brilliant little girl gives her best shot at the alphabet. She misses a few, but gets them all in the right order! Oh and then is distracted by the ball bobber, but gives a big finish!
Lea enjoyed ... well there's not much better of a word than torture for what we did to that worm, but Lea enjoyed it and worm lived and we set him free in the marsh. He lucked out better than the worms that hit the hooks. No fish, but the worms didn't come back either. It was a great day for us, but a bad day to be a worm! hee hee The worm was in one of the tubs of water and she would pour it from one to the other. I would get the worm out of the water a couple times so she could see him move and the worm headed for cover under the bowl. We left him to rest there for a bit and then Lea would pick up the bowl and say "peek" I think the worm was thrilled to play peek a boo. Then Lea would say "mommy" and point at the worm, which meant "mommy pick up the worm and put him in the water so I can send him back on the worm slalom ride!"
Lea also got her shoes muddy. She was ok with that until she got mud on her toe and then our prim little thing pointed at her toe and said "ouch" I tried to explain the mud didn't hurt, but she wasn't happy until I brushed the dried mud off her big toe. She's a real outdoorsie type! She did enjoy holding grandma's fishing pole, but mostly she liked dipping the tip in the pond.
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