First Canoe Trip of the Season

Catch Up

It always seems that once I do a video I take a little time off for myself. So here's a few of my favorite pictures from the last couple of weeks.  They include last week's aquarium visit with Pop, Rebecca in her favorite hat, and our visit with little Jason and "Nana."

She's Walking!

As you know, Rebecca's been walking for some time, but *only* if someone will hold her hand.  Or, apparently, offer her a little bribe.  Rich pulled out a pack of fruit snacks Monday night, and  she was magically able to walk on her own.  She's been doing so ever since, too (even without the treats).  After a bit, I grabbed the camera, and here's the tail-end of the footage:

15 Months (and then some)

Height:  31"  (50-75%)

Weight:  23 lbs., 3 oz.  (50%)

Gimmie an A! Gimmie an M! Gimmie a Y!

What does that spell?  Becca's new favorite name to say!!!

Rebecca and I had our monthly dinner with Amy and Heather last night, and Amy made quite the impression on Becca.  She likes Heather, too (don't feel bad, Heather), but Amy walked her around the restaurant when she started to get a little antsy, and walked with us to the car and waved at her while I packed away the stroller, causing Becca to say her name over and over for the first half of the drive home.  The second half of the drive was Daddy, then deteriorated to Daaaaadddddddddyyyyyy, with more than a little sobbing--we should have left a little earlier, I think.  But as soon as she got home and Daddy cuddled her and filled her tummy with milk she was fine again.  

Anyway, first thing this morning I asked her about dinner, and here's what she said:

Our other, equally important, bit of news is that Becca has started walking five or six steps on her own (back and forth between Rich and me). We're very excited, and will try to catch a little snippet of it soon.

Pretty Crafty

Today Rebecca made her first foray into the Wonderful World of Crafts.  It went pretty much as expected.

Let me preface this by saying that most of the kids who were crafting that day were older than Miss Rebecca; had considerably more experience with crafts; and while they were cute, had nowhere near Rebecca's potential to skate through life on their looks alone.  So who cares if our crafting experience was a little different than most at the table, right?

Anyway, the crayons, my first choice, weren't dark enough to do much, but she aimed them at the pot, and I grew hopeful.  We tried the markers, which covered both the table and my arm nicely, but she had no interest in aiming them at the pot (just me and her mouth).  On to stickers, an obvious choice, but she screamed and tried to shake them off her fingers (I did put one on to show her how, but it was still a no-go).  She thought the glue stick was lip balm (which she *loves* to put on herself).  

We eventually settled in on Mommy holding Rebecca with one arm and putting the glue on the pot, placing a piece of paper over it, then having Becca tap it into place).  This worked until one stuck to Becca's hand and she tapped (flailed) so hard that the pot popped out of my hand and hit the floor (note the chips).  She then chose to try to peel off all our hard work, so I chose to get her a snack.

She did love patting the dirt into place, so all was well.  And even though my friend in charge felt so bad about our chipped pot she wanted to give us a new one, I wouldn't exchange ours for anyone else's.  And I wasn't about to start over, either.  So here it is.

Nose to Nose (and other photos)

Yeah, the title's pretty bad, I know. Live with it.

We went to the aquarium again last weekend, and when we asked Becca what she was going to see at the aquarium, her first answer was, "BABIES!!!" She followed it up with fishies, birds, and pppp (penguins), and remembered (or at least remembered her signs/words for) the hippos, sharks, and seals when Rich talked about them.  And she came as close as (I'm guessing) she'll ever get to the hippo.  

I hope it's as close as she ever gets--I was fortunate(?) enough to catch a show on the National Geographic channel recently about hippo attacks and haven't been the same since.  This one seemed happy enough to see us, however (at least for now).

The lighting is tricky with some of the exhibits, but here we are looking at the jelly fish, with flash, and then I took an extra one of the jellies, sans flash.

And here's a snippet  of the rest of the week (she does pretty well with her own 'nana these days):