Christmas Presents areStill Here

Callie has been working on opening her last Christmas present for several days. It is a car seat, and we just haven't gotten to installing it in the car yet, or even unwrapping it. So Callie has decided to help us out. Now that Christmas is over, she is showing an interesting in opening presents. A little more paper is taken off every day. I think I am going to give in and take the rest off today so I can install it as the old car seat it getting a little difficult to buckle.

Balls, balls and more balls!

Callie LOVES balls of all sizes. So we bought her 250 ball pit balls for Christmas. Tonight was the first time she was able to play with more than about 5 of them at a time. When they were first poured out, her eyes opened wide. After that, as is the usual Callie fashion, she had to move the balls from where they were to a new place. When they were on the floor, she just threw them, but as we started putting them in the basket, she helped empty the basket.
Here is the link the the video of her playing with all her balls.

Fun Times

We have recently discovered the Tacoma Children's Museum. Although Callie is too little more most of the stuff, it is a pretty cool place. And free is you check out the pass from the library :)
On one of our recent visits, Callie fell in love with the baby in the mirror.

Hello there!

Just who are you?

I think I will kiss you!

Crazy things happen when Dad is in charge of bath time. As in we go through the soap much faster. Dad's philosophy is the more bubbles the better. And Callie doesn't seem to mind at all.

All things Christmas

Not that Callie is old enough tell us, but I think she would descide December as her favorite time of the year. All because there are these amazing things called Christmas Lights. And yes, we have found just about every set of lights in close distance to take her to, and have a few more planned. It started with the Tree Lighting Ceremony at the Piazza in Renton. We were going to try and see Santa there, but while waiting in line, she quickly went from happy to exhausted, as is often the case. There is no warning that she is about to become seriously cranky because she needs to go to sleep, it just happens. Usually it is around bedtime, but sometimes she mixes it up and crashes way earlier. None the less, she had a great time at her first Christmas light experience.

Just smiling at all the lights.
Callie loved that ball thing. She starred and starred at it.
The three of us.

"Helping" put the candy canes on the tree. She has not shown any interest in our tree, but loves taking the ornaments off Grandma and Grandpa's tree. I think this is because she rarely plays in our living room.

Zoolights was also a success. Not only were there lights, but there were also all the cool animals in the aquarium to see. Her octopus friend, which is her favorite animal in the aquarium as far as we can tell, was even out and moving.

Candy Cane Lane was the most successful so far. Could also be that it was the last one we have done. But she was pointing at all the lights and saying "Ha dat" over and over.

She also loves the lights on our house. When we come home, she stares at them. As we walk up onto the front porch, she keeps looking up and eventually is laying backwards trying to look behind her. It is pretty funny looking. She doesn't quite realize that it might be easier to turn her head around rather than keep leaning backwards.
We still have a few more Christmas Light trips in mind. We plan to go to Clam Lights at Coulon, and just might have to take Lindsay to Zoolights when she is here.

Screaming!

The other day on the car ride home, Callie discovered that she could scream. So she continued to happily test out her new found screaming skills the rest of the way to swimming lessons. I got to enjoy her screams from Federal Way all the way to the Y on Pearl (which is off of Highway 16), and traffic was bad, so there was a lot of screaming. It took us a few days to be able to catch a scream on video. We swear she knows what the camera is and will stop doing what ever it is we want to catch on video as soon as the thing comes out.




Her other new skills include fake coughing and nodding her head yes. The coughing started out in imitation to someone else, and for about a month now she has continued to fake cough on her own. She also started nodding her head about a month ago, and at that time we didn't think it meant anything. Now we think it means something along the lines of "Yes" and "Yes, I want more!" When she is in the high chair, if the food doesn't come fast enough, there is some very violent head nodding until she gets the first bite. The other day, Grandpa would tell her "no" as she started towards the Christmas tree. She would stop long enough to look at him, nod her head yes, and then proceed directly to the tree to grab ornaments. When I came to pick her up, he said "She was stubborn today."