Halloween Hoohah

Here are our puckins.

Here is our minnie mouse.

We are not halloween people.

Apple technology

Daddy's phone from Apple

Anna's phone from an apple.

(she is literally saying "hewwo? Gamma?")

Gerbies

Ben came home from the grocery store with these today. Red Gerbera Daisies, "gerbies". My wedding bouquet was red gerbies. We tried in vain to keep a plant alive in our earlier apartments though blossoms were few and far between, eventually we put it out of its misery. Hopefully this one will at least make it through the winter so we can feel perpetually in spring.

Recipes That Don't Work - Flour special

This isn't so much about a failed cooking attempt, sorry to mislead. But since it was cooking related, I thought it might fly (and get some of my readership back).

How To Discover Flour in 9 easy steps.
When Anna saw me making pancake mix, I knew it was only a matter of time before I had to introduce her to flour. So on pizza night, I gave her a small pile of flour next to where I was kneading and let her figure it out.

1st - she just clawed around in it (I love her little finger prints/claw marks)
2nd - she threw it up into the air
3rd - she looked at me funny when I couldn't get the camera to take the picture I wanted.
4th - she started drawing in it, and drawing and drawing. (She did it with this kind of intensity) 5th - she wiped away her drawing to see what else she could get flour on.
6th - I asked to see her pretty face.
7th - she showed it to me.
8th - she got up on the table so her pants could play in the flour
9th - daddy came home and made us clean it up

I hope you all learned something very valuable. Anna learned about flour and what pizza dough tastes like (her favorite part was trying to pinch off pieces to eat)
Thank you,
Goodnight.

Monday again

I told Ben last night, "I don't know what we're going to do tomorrow, but I will try to make it blog worthy."

So here we are. We didn't really do anything blogworthy I'm afraid, Anna was napping for most of the day. Literally like 3.5 hours. But then we ate some good ol' mac and cheese and went to the Library and park. Anna was pretty nervous about going to a new park, especially while there were some bigger kids running around, but in reality we were pretty lucky to encounter so few people at one of the busier parks in the city. Now we are chilling, she's getting some good playtime in with some toys (learning about the intricacies of snap beads).

We went to some halloween parties this weekend which necessitated our first babysitting adventures (outside the family, meaning money exchanged hands) it was pretty nerve wracking for me. Anna didn't seem to mind as long as she could watch Ice Age every night of her life.



So this is a video we took today to fill time and...

this is a video from her awkward early toddler days when she had a bad haircut and a very goofy toothed smile.

Field Trip

Today is Monday and it totally snuck up on me. I had no plans, no errands, no chores (probably). So I decided to take Anna on a field trip up to Payson Lakes. I had dreams of finding beautiful golden aspens lining the road, but we were about a month late for that. It was still beautiful, especially a little lower on the mountain, but we went straight for the lakes and walked around a bit then had a picnic dinner with the chipmunks. We saw a lot of deer, a few on our walk, most on the drive down - some were hanging out at the campground looking at us like - "hey we got here first, this is our spot."

there's a deer at the end of the path

So happy to throw rocks

Why my toddler is the cutest

Admittedly, she has some bad habits. Like waking up too early, screaming for fun and throwing food on the ground. But we are working on it. For instance, I got pretty tired of wiping up the floor around her high chair after every meal, so I told her that it was on her now to clean it up and throw the food in the garbage. And she did it. And she continues to do it. Tonight was pretty bad, there was rice involved. I didn't think she would bother with the rice, just get the naan in the garbage and run off, but she patiently went back and forth between the garbage and her high chair, one grain at a time. Ben and I were tickled.

Furthermore, as halftime and bedtime approached simultaneously tonight, I asked her to clean up some of her toys. (a very generic request with little to no actual direction) She walked over to a Lambie that hadn't been moved or played with, nudged it, then went back to sliding down daddy's legs. Thanks Anna!

And that is why my toddler is the cutest.