The Past Couple of Weeks

We've been up to quite a bit, and here is the evidence.

First, Jill went to dinner with Great Grandma and Aunt Millie, who was visiting from Fresno. 

Last Year

This Year

Then, Jill wore her helmet ("ha") around the house while she did various things like eat toast, push her stroller, and drink milk.

After that, she made some of the messiest mess we've ever seen while eating dinner.  She also played with her new favorite toy (a Starbucks straw), and had a good game of peekaboo.

the best pic ever

Where's Jill?

straws are for BLOWING

Anyone want a bite?  It's peanut butter and jelly...

Then she did one of the funniest things I've ever heard:

We went back to the swings at Westcrest too!

The next morning she showed off her walking skills and demonstrated a new word, "Oops!"

Next, Jill and I walked to our neighborhood park for snack time.

playing with the camera case

time for water

her new favorite: Kashi Tasty Little Cereal Bars

The next day we visited Steve at work.

That weekend we went to Olympia to look at 2 houses, and Jill had a messy snack (another cereal bar) and demonstrated her "ooh" skills a second time.  Upon getting home she showed off some of the animal sounds that she knows.

On Monday we took her to Nordstrom for her first "real" (non-Robeez) pair of shoes.  She thinks the shoes and balloon are equally tasty, but likes the balloon best of all.  It was really funny to watch her walk in the shoes because she picks her feet up high and falls a lot.  We are practicing everyday.

She popped the balloon from Nordstrom, so we gave her another one.  Anyone care to guess how she popped it?

Finally, she has taken to eating a bowl of cereal for breakfast, but only in the big bowl, with the big spoon, like Daddy.  I gave her a Jill sized bowl and a Jill sized spoon, and though it looks like she's using them correctly here, she really dumped the cereal on the tray and put the bowl on her head, then used it as a drum with the spoon as her drumstick.  Creative but not correct, technically.