Bubbles!

There is very little that will put Danica in a better mood than bubbles! She can be entertained by them for a loooong time. I have discovered that blowing bubbles can be very therapeutic. You definitely can't do it when you are mad or upset about something because it just doesn't work when you blow too hard! The bubble we used this particular day were ones from Gymboree. They are a gel based bubble that doesn't get your carpet all soapy but does give Danica that appearance of dandriff when all is said and done. They also blow a ton of bubbles that last forever and have awesome "hang" time.

She is such a ham with the camera! She has been tilting her head to the side and giving cheesy grins and after you take the picture she has to see it. She will then go back and pose for another.
She reaches so high on her tiptoes trying to reach the bubbles. This is her trying to poke each bubble very carefully. At one point she was popping them between her two pointer fingers. Very good hand-eye coordination. Of course I had already put the camera away before she did that.
She loves to step on the bubbles. Big time foot stomping going on until they are all popped.
Bubbles!!!

First time in snow!

A couple of weeks ago Jason took Danica to see snow for the first time. It was a beautiful Saturday and after they went to swim class they took off to Opal Creek. Where was I you ask? At home sleeping of course. Nice weather always occurs on my weekend to work. According to Jason, Danica wasn't quite sure what to make of this white stuff. She apparently got very upset when it got on her shoes! And even though there was snow, it was quite warm so she wasn't freezing when she didn't have a coat on.


Poking at the snow with her shoes, hanging on for dear life to her nalgene bottle!

Picture taken by Daddy with Danica in the backpack. I guess she spent quite a but of time rubbing the back of his head.
Jason said that there were butterflies everwhere.
Sitting in the back of the car having lunch!

I believe this was the snack from after the hike! Lunch was before it.
She loves the backpack! She can see so much from it.
Did I mention that there was a little bit of snow up there? I can't remember if Jason said this was as tall as he is or not. Anyway it's alot of snow. Ever since going Danica has been obsessed with anything with a picture of snow on it. There are a couple of Backyardigan episodes with snow involved and they are her favorite.

Big helper!

Danica so wanted to help fold laundry the other day and everyone knows how 2 year olds fold laundry is that they just unfold what you spent 15 minutes folding. So I let her help me put away the socks that had been folded. We got her little basket from her kitchen and she put the socks in it. She of course put too many in so they kept falling out but she picked them right back up.
She then very carefully carried them down the hall and helped put them away. It took several trips and she was upset when we were done because she wanted to do more! Hopefully this wanting to help continues. I'm not holding my breath though. :)

Hat time!

Occasionally Danica will get obsessed with her hats for two days and then ignore them for weeks. She came out of her room a few days ago with her hats on just like this.
She also loves shoes. Particularly Mommy and Daddy's shoes that are left around. She will put them on and start clomping around in them. She hasn't tripped yet (that I am aware of!) and thinks she is just so silly for doing it.

Huummm

Danica now does this almost whenever you say "huumm" I'm sure that I am spelling that wrong but if there is a right way to spell it let me know and I will fix it! She also will clap both hands over her mouth when you make the surprised intake of air sound. I hope that discription is clear enough. The one finger huumm has been observed when she is looking in the cupboard for her fruit snacks.

But I wanna!

I had to share this picture! I was trying to get Danica out of the house to go over to her friend Larissa's house for a play date and she is allowed one doll with her. Not the 4 she was trying to take with. (the green is actually the feet of her christmas "Tree" doll.) We did make it out of the house with just one but there was definitely not a happy Danica that day!

Happy Easter!

I know she doesn't look very happy in this first picture but it's because she wanted to see the picture on the camera. She just doesn't have the patience to take a picture first. I loved this dress when I saw it in the store. Mainly because it has no pink on it!

All dresses up and ready to go to church!
Of course she smiled as soon as I picked her up!
She discovered she could swish her dress back and forth. And then of course she started twirling.

She understood the concept of finding the Easter eggs pretty quickly. Danica got very excited whenever she would find another one. We used plastic ones because knowing Dusty she would have tried to eat them.

And she put them in her basket. Of course Dusty had to try to get in on the action. It was so much fun to watch her running around carrying eggs wearing Dora slippers. She loves her slippers and would never take them off if she could. I'm sure that she will want to "find" more eggs over the next few days until Jason and I get tired of hiding them and and the eggs "disappear". All in all it was a pretty good Easter.