Painting

We planned to go to the Star Wars exhibit at the Science Center, but when we arrived at noon, there were not any tickets available unto 5:00, so we went to the Seattle Children's Museum instead. Callie loved it. There is far mroe for her to do than at the Tacoma Children's Museum. She loved climbing up and down some foam stairs as well as a toddler sized set of steps. You can see her walk up the steps here. We ended the trip with painting. She did really well dipping the brushes in the pain and then painting on the paper (mostly). Things were going really well and I was amazed at how clean she was staying until she decided to put both hands (with paintbrushes in them) on top of her head. And she was getting hungry and tired, so she really didn't want to get cleaned up, and since we were in a public place, we just left with paint in her hair because we didn't want to subject everyone else to her screaming and I wasn't sure how I was going to get it out without a bath. She did get lots of smiles and comments as we were walking back to the car :)

Painting...as you can see her hands have already been on her head once. Hence the beautiful shade of red on the top of her head, and the eyebrow paint as well. But the picture is pretty.

And this is how all the paint ended up in her hair. Now she has a nice blue spot on the back of her head as well. This is when we decided we were done.

Just relaxing as she drives the Metro Bus. I can only imagine what she will look like in about 15 more years when she is really driving.

Children's Museum

Today we met up with our Baby Friends Group at the Tacoma Children's Museum. Callie had a blast (of course), and so did Mike and I. She really enjoyed the paintbrush in the "construction area" and played with it more than anything else. A good chunk of the time elsewhere was spent standing still and staring at everyone else.

Not so sure about the hard hat (it was WAY to big)

Loving the paint brush.

Callie's new favorite thing to do is to "sneak" up on us. She always does this from the back, and reaches out with both hands to "scare" us. But usually she is giggling so loud that there is no sneaking involved. And if we don't respond accordingly, she will just reach out for us again. Then she laughs once we are scared by her. You can watch it here.

Look out world...

I kept saying "It will be so much easier once Callie is walking," and everyone looked at me like I was a crazy person. I still insisted that it would be easier because she doesn't like to be held or confined for long (or even medium) lengths of time. How much easier will it be once she can walk around at the park or the store rather than be held. I still stick with this argument, but did not really get a chance to test it out. I knew climbing would come after walking, but didn't think it would be so soon. Callie really started walking on Tuesday. She went from taking a maximum of 5-10 steps to walking long distances (the whole hallway, so long I know) and loosing her balance, touching the ground, and standing back up to walk rather than crawl. And then came Wednesday. And with Wednesday came climbing. She pulled Grandma's step stool over the the fridge, and climbed up both steps to be able to reach the magnets to her fridge farm that were up higher. She also figured out that if she pulled the box off the bookshelf, she could use the box to then climb up onto the shelf. So much for my dreams of a easy phase of just walking. Every time I say something, she goes and proves me wrong. Someday I will learn to keep my mouth shut, it might be easier.