Joshiah's 2nd Birthday

When organizing pictures, I realized I forgot to post these. We went over to Pasco for Josiah's 2nd birthday on April 9th. Callie had fun hanging out with her cousins.

Julian and Callie in the wagon. I think Callie was impressed with his incredible mohawk.

Callie and Josiah in the wagon (and yes, Callie really enjoyed the wagon).

Just relaxing with Dad.

Discovering the joy of sidewalk chalk.

An Evening at Commencment Bay

It was such a beautiful day so we decided to go down to Commencement Bay this evening. We took sandwiches and Callie got to play with the rocks. There are two different beach areas, one that is sandy and one that is rocky. There was no question over which one to go to-the rocky one. Callie loves picking up and feeling rocks. She had a blast, and didn't even cry when she dropped a rock on her head.

Just starting to discover all the rocks.

Throwing rocks is so much fun!

That smile says it all!

Apparently, you can throw rocks really well when you lean sideways like this. The next picture is from right after this, and she is proud of herself.

She is working on learning that if you don't want to hold Mom or Dad's hand (which is 90% of the time) then you have to walk with us. It is not okay to take off in another direction. This lesson resulted in a few puddle melts onto the boardwalk when we told her "No" and grabbed her hand. And then 30 seconds later she would be walking holding both our hands and let us know she wanted to go "weee," otherwise known as us swinging her.

Sliding

She did it...another new skill. And this one in BIG in Callie's world...she can go up the ladder to the slide, and sit down all on her own. She is pretty proud of herself. I wasn't fast enough to record it to see her clapping for herself once she sat down, but she is still pretty excited. She has been climbing up the ladder for a while, but couldn't figure out how to get her legs up there.
You can watch her here.
And, she starting "talking" on the phone. Or at least making some noises into the phone if you talk to her. I did get "Hi Mom" followed by her shaking her head no. Not sure what the no meant, but it is cute.

New Skills

Sorry, no pictures at this time...but I promise there will be some soon. After all, Easter is this weekend and there just might be some cute ones from all those adventures.
But, Callie is up to lots of new things.

• Grandma now has a name. I take much delight in it. She is "Eggna," which is almost Edna. We have no idea how she came up with this, but she did.


• Callie is still obsessed with all things that fly in the sky. All birds are "ducks" and she has said "air plane" a few times.


• She is getting VERY good at signing all done, and will literally do this as soon as she takes her last bite off the spoon. As I was gettign her breakfast ready the other day, she opened the drawer, took a bib out, and handed it to me. I think she was hungry.


• Callie wants to spend every minute outside, and if you don't pick her coat up and put it where she cannot reach it, she will bring it to you, hold it out and say "out" over and over agian. And if you tell her we can't go out now, there will be tears. She is trying very hard to figure out how to opent he door as well. She reaches up for the door know, but can'y quite turn it.


• Outside, she loves the swing. And the faster and higher you push her, the louder the squeals. And once, Bear walked in the way and she kicked him, and she tought that was really funny.


• As far as indoor entertainment, she loves books. We found out the hard way at stroller fitness that she does NOT want to share her books. Lots of tears and she would not forgive the poor little girl who took her book. Balls and cars come in a close second. At the toy store the other day, she was not interested in anything besides balls and cars. She is trying to catch the bigger ball when you bounce it to her, but her coordination is a little lacking. At least she laughs when it hits her in the head. As she pushes her cars around, she says "vroom, vroom."


• She is also very cautious of her abilities. She wants to be independent, but won't try something if she doesn't think she can do it. But yet, she won't take more help that she things she needs.


• Grandpa made her an adarondack chair and she loves it. When Grandpa arrived with it, she almost ran to him. He was all excited because he thought she wanted to see him. Wrong, she only wanted the chair.

I think that just about covers all the "new" developments in her life, but as soon as I post this, she will learn something else.

Spring

We took Callie down to the duck pond at Point Defiance today and she was in bird overload. She didn't know where to point or where to look, there were birds everywhere! And then we had to get some pictures with the daffodils because they were so pretty.