Bubbles

I got a chance to scrapbook the other day and I finished it tonight. I tried to stamp the letters and it didn't work, so I came up with these bubbles which I do like.

Too big clothes and a skinned up nose.

Megan has been fascinated by the Vista Windows t-shirts that Grandpa Gorrell got for our family bikeride. She likes the ball on the front. Today, she found one of them (he got 6 to send home with us) and she kept trying to put it over her head. I asked if she wanted it on and she said, "Yeah" (another new word).


As for the skinned nose, we had a little accident yesterday. We started to take a walk yesterday, but it was raining by the time we got to the corner and we turned back. Rather than go back, we sat on the porch swing for a little while and watched for buses to drive by (a new favorite pasttime). Megan got tired of sitting so she stood and watched. Well, she got a little too close to the edge of the step and tumbled down. She did quite a job of falling and scrapped up her nose. She was pretty tough about it and quit crying after I gave her an oreo cookie.

The Revised Living Room

We finally got around to painting the living room (2 times actually, 3 if you count primer). I'm not sure I love it, but I can't figure out what else to do, so for now it will stay this way.

Here is the room as decorated by the previous owner.

The previous owner's curtains.

We removed the chair rail. It was too ornate for the room. We would have removed the top moulding too, but it would have destroyed the ceiling, so we just painted it to blend in a little better.

We used the same lace curtains in the foyer and I think I'll also put them up in the dining room

The photo doesn't really do it justice.

Ready-Set-Go!!

Megan added the word go to her vocabulary. The video speaks for itself.

Animals revisited

Here is a somewhat more attentive Megan doing animal sounds.

Note- "Pablo" is her favorite character on the show Backyardigans. She has a stuffed Pablo toy and 2 sippy cups with Pablo on them. She talks about him regularly. On several of the episodes of Backyardigans, Pablo rides a horse, thus the conversation:
Mommy: "What does a horse say?"
Megan: "Pablo."

This is Megan not using her spoon. Last week, she started using a spoon. Before then, she always let me feed her, so I avoided the mess by not letting her use the spoon. This morning she ate about half of her yogurt with her spoon. While she slowly ate a cereal bar and more yogurt, I started unloading the dishwasher. At this point, she apparently decided she no longer needed the spoon and attempted to drink her yogurt. Lovely.

Walking-Talking-Sponge

I feel like Megan has suddenly started to express everything we've talked about over the last 15 months. She is regularly doing and saying things that I didn't realize she knew or remembered.

Animal sounds are an example. We have been looking at animal picture books for easily the last 9 months. Her favorite books are "Dear Zoo" and a cheap book with cartoon pictures of animals that I got in Target. I have been making animal sounds for months. Then, when we were on vacation she started saying, "moo, nee and do-do (elephant)." Just out of curiousity, I asked her sheep, chicken, cat, owl and wolf and she did them all. The first three animals (cow, horse, elephant) I would show her in a picture and then ask her, but the rest I asked her while playing outside. Anyway, this is just and example of the ways she has been surprising me lately.

Here is a video of her animal sounds, she was really distracted, but I'll try again soon.

She has also started nodding her head empatically. It's pretty funny and a fair amount of the time she will nod yes no matter what the question. Below is a video of her wanting candy (I tried to bribe her to pay attention to the animal sounds. It didn't work).

Scrapbooking again

I know everyone has been dying to see more scrapbooking...well, so that's not true. I haven't done much this summer. In June, I finished an album for my dad that I started 2 years ago.

July was mostly spent copying old home videos to DVD which is going to count toward my scrapbook goal for the year, b/c the goal was to preserve memories.

In August, I designed this simple project for a church event. We had a VBS follow up and in addition to some foot soaking, the ladies made a similar designed page with a take home plastic frame.



August and September flew by with home improvement and vacation. Monday I ordered all of our pictures since May (over 200) but I decided to scrapbook some old ones just to get back in the swing of things.