We found some tinkerbell skirts at the dollar store and they are her new favorite dress up. She posed for the picture, because she had been jumping and flying and I couldn't quite capture that on camera, and it was a rather fearsome fairy pose. If she was a fairy, I think she would be a feisty one.
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| J flew off to Sioux Falls for a week to train in his new position as Special Programs Unit Supervisor. What do they do? Supervise Special Programs as a unit. Yep. But it means he has actual hours on the clock and off, PTO, and only has to work 5 days a week. It is so dreamy. I still sometimes wander around just wishing everyone was so lucky to have a with vacation and where you get off of work and don't have to still work from home. |
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| J had a friend thing. It was really really nice to get reacquainted with some of his best, longest friends. |
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| I finally gave in and let K paint her nails all by herself multiple times. I even gave her her own polish. And provided a large towel for under the event, and bought nail polish remover to remove polish - no not from her, it tickles her too much - but from random parts of my arms and the bathroom. |
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| These are some of Korrali's best friends. She tells everyone about them. "I have friends! They are: Bwaydun, Earthquake, Chevy, Kimberly." The last one is a dog. The other names really do sound kind of like how she says them. But her way makes me happier. She played with them almost every single day. They came to collect her when she wasn't outside and invaded our house, much to our joy (seriously, we loved it). They adored K and even moreso C. |
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| They still love each other. Most of the time. People tell us all the time how much they look alike. I guess it's true kind of, but their personalities are so different it's hard to feel like they resemble each other. Where K was a passionate mover, C is content with what she knows she can do. K preferred to be climbing and experimenting with new toys and on to the next thing, C is fascinated toys that light up and can sit in one place for a long time eating them. Also, people cooed at K, and they touch C. Even random strangers. It doesn't bother me much because I figure the more germ exposure she gets while with me, the better, but it does weird me out a little when I turn around and find a stranger touching her hair... |
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| L was awesome holding C. |
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| Not to mention adorable. |
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| We arrived. It's up in the mountains. |
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| This one went in fast circles. |
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| Sky ride. Much needed after the circley one. |
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| Santa. |
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| Train ride |
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| C fell right to sleep |
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| K was still jazzed to be there |
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| And loving the carousel |
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| Ferris wheel for kids only |
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| A ride that kind of drops you, kind of bounces you. |
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| Can you feel the sass? I think L is one of her favorite playmates, since she was 18 mo and met him for the first time. |
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| The pole is icy! |
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| And Santa's slide. Its 2 stories tall. Sweet ride. |
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| She cried when it was time to leave. And tried to trick us into staying. Five minutes in to the ride home she was out. |
Strawberries were not her first solid food, but are her most favorite. We started a week or so shy of her 6 mo date, and she was really into the spoons and bowls. Food is another story. I can trick her into eating cereal, she tolerates avocado, thinks banana is a funny game, and thinks peaches are blah. Strawberries though, if give her a giant, soft and juicy one don't dare take it away or she will cry like her heart is being shattered.
