Thea jumps!

Thea is getting really stable at sitting, so we’re on to the next thing ~ jumping! I’ve put her in the johnny-jump-up a few times and she really seems to enjoy it. I have to make sure I do it when Thad is involved in other things, though, as he thinks it is a swing and that he ought to push her in it—which she doesn’t appreciate very much.

 

 

Thad's cockpit

A couple of weeks ago, Thad sat astride his small chair, backwards, making noises and telling that me he was flying! So, I thought that maybe I could give him a little more fodder for his imagination. I found an old box that we were throwing away, and cut it up the right size to fit over the back of his chair. I found some brads in our office drawer and dug up some CDs that we don’t use anymore, cut a few egg circles off an empty carton, and found a spice lid that I wasn’t using. I was wondering what I could use for switches, and I thought to tape some binder clips backwards, so that the flip part can have maximum flip! I bent an old wire hangar and taped around it a bit to make the yoke for steering. Then I stuck them all on to the box, colored on them with a pen a little bit, and voila ~ some imagination fodder!



Look at his little cheeks puffing out - making all the proper airplane noises!



more fun with Thea's hair

Thea has such fun curls on the top! It's just irresistable to comb them in some funny way after a bath!

Thea's "curl-hawk"

misc fun

eatin' carrots

Well, we’ve finally gotten into it and pureed some vegetables for Thea to eat. She enjoys eating while we are eating and sometimes really goes after the spoon! She always eyes the cookies when we break them out for dessert—how does she know already that that’s the good stuff??

eatin' carrots

 

would you like some grass on your hamburger?

A few weeks ago, as we were eating our hamburgers, Thad told us that he would like some “grass on” his hamburger. We then noticed that he was pointing to the lettuce that we had put on the edge of his plate rather than on his burger, thinking that he’d be more likely to eat it that way. Guess we were wrong—grass is better ON the burger!

 

at the playground

There is a community playground about a 7 minute walk from out house. We have gone there a few times, partly for the walk, and partly because Thad loves the swing that is there. Thea is learning to enjoy it too! We’ll have to move Thad up to the big-boy swing soon so that we don’t have to take turns!