May happenings

I officially have a finger sucker.  He usually just does this when he's in his crib with his lovey, but occasionally I catch him in the act elsewhere.  Too cute.

Ponytail!
Also, those are Arthur's shorts.  Size 12 months.

Blowing bubbles

We did a little nature walk in our yard during Arthur's nap one day.  I colored lots of different colors in an egg carton and we tried to find something for each color.

Black dirt

We found everything but both shades of blue.  Eleanor said she needed a ladder to climb up and pick the sky.

I had fun taking some pictures of my new flowers

Drawing in shaving cream

Arthur wasn't really supposed to get involved...

This didn't last long.  Eleanor filled the pool with leaves and it was all I could do to keep Arthur from eating them.

Shucking corn - she actually did an entire ear by herself.  She has also learned how to put away things that go on the bottom shelf in the pantry, how to put stuff out in the recycling bins in the garage, and how to water the plants on the porch.  I love that she can REALLY help with some stuff now!

Arthur pretty much refuses to be fed with a spoon, so I have to find things he can feed himself.  He can't really get tiny things to his mouth yet, but I've learned that soft food cut in a french fry shape works well.  Here he has pear slices, avocado slices, and pita bread with hummus.  He used to gag on food a lot but now he does a GREAT job feeding himself...except for making a huge mess.  :)  Other favorites are strawberries, papaya (MAJOR favorite!), steamed carrots, baked sweet potato fries, squash, ground beef, scrambled eggs (sometimes), and banana.

Mmmm, hummus!

One of Eleanor's friends invited us to go to this place that has skating, video games, laser tag, etc.  Eleanor was a little overwhelmed, but she enjoyed the bowling.

First time in "skates"!  She loved it!

She has gotten really into dinosaurs lately.  Here the dinosaurs are singing Ring Around the Rosie...but they don't like to fall down.  (She gets pretty upset if they do.)

Here's the second part of that video.  The dinosaurs are singing her current favorite song from our music class.  It doesn't really have words, but she makes up some new ones.  When we sing it at class we play bells with it, and I think she's pretending that the dinosaurs are playing bells.