What a night!

This has been a busy week for Callie. She started "dance" class on Monday with Grandma and Grandpa Krisel, and restarted swimming lessons tonight. She thought dance class was really cool until the other kids showed up and then she was more into watching than doing.
Tonight was our first time with swimming lessons at Lindbergh. I went to change and Callie was on the deck (totally child proofed and fenced in). I come back 2 minutes later and can't find her. I then see she is sitting in the middle of the dinning room table playing with my pop can. We will have to work a little harder and keeping her from climbing. We then walked to swimming lesson, which was far more exciting than the lesson. Callie was not so fond of the cold pool. She started out happy, and then progressively got grumpier and colder. She was shivering and covered in goose bumps before class was over. She was also extremely clingy and any time I said "Are you ready..." she started violently shaking her head no. We will be looking for a way to keep her warmer!
Callie also got to eat whole strawberries for the first time tonight. She hasn't liked cut up strawberries, but really enjoyed them whole. Here is she eating them.

Callie got a tricycle!

We had been thinking about getting Callie a tricycle for a while, and we did. It took her a little while to warm up to the idea of a helmet (okay, a lot of us setting the helmet on our heads was needed), but now she asks to ride all the time.

Ridding a trike is such serious business.

Daddy pushing me down the street for my first outside ride.

Posing with my brand new tricycle.

Tricycles are also good for pushing rocks around.

A Busy Weekend

As usual, we packed a lot into this weekend. Saturday Callie helped Mike and Grandpa finish getting the gate installed on the deck (that is now completely Callie safe, as long as we remember to close the gate so she can play out there to her hearts content). Callie really liked the tools, screws, and spare boards.
Then it was off to Kirk's for Phoenix and Christie's graduation party. There Callie met her cousin Grace who is four and visiting from Montana. Callie had an instant best friend whom she adored. Sunday was a trip down to Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium for a Baby Friends get together, lunch, a nap in the car, then to Coulon Park to meet up with Grandma, Grandpa, Josiah, and Julian.

Daddy's little helper. She was really proud of her self when she got the screw to stick in a hole. And she had been watching Daddy use the drill because she grabbed it, and put the tip into the wood. Also notice the mallet right by her...I am sensing a fascination.

Callie loved feeding the budgies, even if she wasn't always so sure about them.

Cousins enjoying the water.

Discovery Park

We decided to take advantage of the first warm weekend and went to Discovery Park. Callie loved hiking around in the backpack carrier. And then we got to the beach and her eyes lit up. She found a clam shell and spent a good deal of time investigating it. Opening it, closing it, filling it with sand and packing it in, and dumping it out. Over and over again. The tidepools were also a hit. So much so that she sat down in one. And refused to stand back up. She was already wet and sandy at this point, so we decided to just let her have fun.