Tapping into the inner artist

Leah has been exploring with markers, paints, crayons, and art! Here are a few of her Masterpieces....

Beautiful days in February

This past weekend was perfect weather to get outside. We played at the park, and fed the ducks.

Weekend in Yachats

Sarah, Kelly, and I went to the coast for the weekend. It was a beautiful weekend full of laughter and fun!

OMSI

On Saturday we went to OMSI. They have a great area for kids that are Leah's age. Leah was immediately drawn to the the balls. She became very possessive of them. She found a basket and filled it up, and walked around very proud of her balls. Soon, a sweet boy came up to Leah and tried to take one........I have never seen this side of my daughter before. She melted down. She screamed. She cried. She refused to share. Chris and I were at a loss for words. We looked at each other stunned, what should we do (besides go to Powell's and get more parenting books)? We quickly ditched the basket of balls, and removed Leah from the situation. Soon, she "cooled off", and we gave a little pep- talk about sharing. Before we had a chance to pull ourselves together, she had two more balls in her hands, that she held onto for the entire day.





Please notice her bare feet in the photos...while she was in the sand area, someone stole her socks, so she had to go without socks the rest of the day:)

Friday night at Papa's Pizza.

I now understand the attraction of places with play areas for kids.

Making up for neglecting the Blog...

I have been very lazy about keeping up with the blog these days. I found a new "time sucker" called Facebook. I have to learn to manage both of my online addictions.


We went to the mall a couple weeks ago. As we walked in a woman was leaving with her family, and gave us her mall stroller that was a fire truck. We were not sure how Leah would do, but she LOVED it. She loved driving us all over the mall, and sitting up higher.



Hanging out on a patio swing.




Another trip to the zoo.

Check out my new wagon!

Leah received a new wagon from Grandma Loudie, and John for Christmas. She absolutely LOVES it!