Shoes

My little girl is developping her love for shoes at an early age. The only problem is that right now she'd rather chew them than wear them. She can spot them from across the room and takes off in her fastest crawl, squealing with glee. So of course David has made it his mission to keep all the shoes (hoos, as he says) away from her. Yesterday he worked so hard to put all the shoes he could find into a laundry basket. Shortly after he finished his project, Anna saw the basket and seemed to think it was the world's greatest treasure chest!

Another tooth!

Anna's second tooth poked through yesterday. Hopefully we will soon be getting more sleep!

Interior Design

David is redesigning our home. He told me yesterday that we should take down the living room wall that closes the room off from the entry way. He also wants to paint the fireplace yellow.

Imagination

David's imagination is taking off. For a while his favorite games were taking noses and puppies pooping. For taking noses he will come up to you and pretend to grab your nose, then proceed to hide it, throw it or eat it. It can go on for a long time with your nose ending up in the kitchen, behind the couch or even in the sandbox. (He actually used that as an argument to try to go outside to play - "mama nose in sandbox!") In puppies pooping, he would tell me that his puppies pooped in the living room and then he had to clean it up. I wonder if it's a boy thing!

Yesterday he recreated a scene from Bob the Builder. The puppies were trying to eat the sunflowers growing in the living room. First David had to be a scarecrow and try to scare the puppies away. When that didn't work he had to cut down the sunflowers and hide them under a table.

A new word that he says is "beebee." It means pretty. He talks about beebee flowers all the time.

First Tooth!

After torturing her for several weeks, Anna's first tooth poked through on Friday. It is her center bottom right tooth. It looks like the second should be in soon.

Food

David ate broccoli and mashed potatoes yesterday. Voluntarily!

His new independence in all things is both scary and fun. A couple days ago I was caught up changing Anna's diaper. He decided he was hungry. He went into the refrigerator, grabbed a Yoplait, went to the silverware drawer, grabbed a spoon, opened the yogurt and fed it all to himself before I was done with the diaper.

Anna has discovered how great Cheerios are. She loves gumming them down. She naturally has a drive for independence too and will push my hand away if I try to put them directly in her mouth. She wants to use her sticky little fingers to do it herself.

Her favorite foods right now are bananas, a Gerber apple/banana combo, banana flavored oatmeal, Edy's coconut fruit bars (I was eating one and she went crazy for it!) and a sweet potato/carrot soup from Martha's Everyday Food magazine. When I made the soup I joked that it looked like baby food and she likes it every bit as much as I do.

Easter Fun

We had a lovely Easter weekend. On Saturday we took the kids to an egg hunt at a community park. It only took David a few seconds to figure out that picking up eggs was great fun. Of course being David, he had to pick up green eggs first, then yellow... He got a big basket full and was a big boy and traded his egg collection in for a prize bag without any complaints.

The Bunny visited our home Saturday night and left a basket of goodies for each kiddo. He also left a lawn full of eggs for David to hunt on his own. He enjoyed it and only got frustrated when his basket was too small for all the eggs.

We finished off the day by sharing Easter dinner with our neighbors. After a fun couple hours of David plus 3 boys running through our house we were quite happy to have just 2 children of our own.