Toddler fun and a pregnancy update

Rose's imagination and language have been growing with leaps and bounds over the past few months.  She is playing with her toys in new ways and enjoying longer books.  It's a kick in the pants to drive her home from daycare as there is a running commentary in the backseat on what she did during the day, food she wants to eat, and conversations with people who aren't there (she does both side of the conversation).  Her sense of humor is expanding as well and she loves to tell 'jokes' and do silly things for a laugh.

Here's some pictures of what she's been up too.

Reading books with Nana.

Wearing pretty dresses.

Painting with water colors.

Playing ''Daddy Slide'.

Her language is getting better and better although I still don't understand if half the time unless I can see the context in which she is talking.  In the video above I know that she is asking where 'something' went but I have no idea what.  :)   Tigger?  Turtle?  Table?  Who knows.

And now for the pregnancy update.  I'm 17 weeks along now and thank goodness, the ickyness is finally gone.  It was worse than with Rose and for a longer period of time.  Blech!

My tummy popped out right at 14 weeks.   Seriously it was like I woke up one day and poof!  I did the whole 'rubber band to modify the nonpregnancy pants' thing for a two weeks but then got a few maternity pants from a friend.  Sweet relief!  Then I received a full load of maternity pants from the friend that I borrowed from last time.  Oh my.  Lets just say that from the time I had Rose the number of clothes increased by a weee bit.  I now have more maternity clothes in my closet then I had regular clothes.  Yay for borrowing from nice friends!  I spend the better part of Sunday sorting and washing and hanging.  Phew!
 

The first half.

A whole huge box to go!

On another pregnancy front, other pregnancy systems have started to set in.  The aches and pains of the lessening tendons and stretching belly are here in force.  I'm hungry all.the.time.  And it looks like 'pregnancy brain' is a true phenomenon.  I looked at my feet at 10 minutes to 5pm on Friday and saw this. 

Yep, two different shoes.  Two different colors.  At least they were both flats. :)  Then on Saturday I had locked the door and was halfway to my car to run errands when I realized I didn't have shoes on at all.  My friend pointed out that I don't even have the excuse that I can't see my feet anymore.  Imagine me at 9 months!

How I spent my New Years Eve....

Being chased by Dragons....

and Bubble Vacuums.  I wouldn't change a thing.

Wordless Wednesday: The best part of baking.

Wordless Wednesday: 9 weeks 4 days

The snow is here! The snow is here!

I've said it before and I'll say it again.   We live in a wonderful location.  We are 2 hours from the beach and 45 minutes to the mountains.  We are high enough to have seasons but not high enough to have to deal with snow all winter.  This means that when the first snows of winter come we can take a short drive and enjoy all the benefits of the cold white stuff without having to live in it.

I wasn't sure if Rose would remember snow as she was only 1.5 years old when she saw it last but she lite up like a light bulb when we mentioned where we were going.  "SNOW!  SNOW! SNOW!" was all she wanted to talk about.  As soon as we drove by the first few half melted tufts of it as we headed up the mountain she immediately demanded to be let out of the car so she could go play.   Luckily we are able to convince her to stay in her car seat until we made it to the cabin.  There was so much fun to be had.

There was snow to eat.

 And snow to dump into a canoe.

 And of course, snow to cause Daddy to get his exercise by pulling his daughter around in circles.

 

Pumpkin Patching on a Beautiful Fall Day

We met up with some friends the past weekend and headed over to the Poppy Lane Pumpkin Patch.  Since Steve was going to miss Halloween this year, we dressed up Rose in her Halloween costume, a fairy princess.  It made for really cute pictures although by the time we left she was down to just the onesie.  To say that Rose had fun would be a bit of an understatement.  

There were hay mazes to crawl through.....

And horses to ride....

Slides to slide down.....

And bounces houses to bounce in.

The bounce houses, oh the bounce houses.  Rose L.O.V.E.S bounce houses.  They had one that was a giant tube that they bounce and crawl through.  I wasn't sure if we were going to be able to get her to leave that one.


And as further proof of my daughters daredevil tendencies, she more than happily climbed up into one of those inflatable slides that is about 2 stories tall and flew down it at about 50 miles an hour.  Three times.  I would have posted a picture of it but she went so fast the camera couldn't keep up.


When it was time to go she was practically in tears over the prospect of no more fun although she was slightly mollified by the prospect of a Taco Tree lunch.

Reason #635 that Grandpas are awesome

They know the BEST places to play hide and seek.