Lazy Days at Home

It took us a little while to figure out what Caroline was doing here. She started saying "daddy's car," and we realized this was her car and she is driving her animals around. She drives different animals or baby dolls around - I guess it depends on where she is going that day.

She's enjoying a favorite snack - mott's country berry applesauce. She has to do everything herself. We hear "I do it," "I got it," etc. all the time.

Daddy and Caroline dancing in the destroyed living room. Since we have a playroom upstairs, I naively thought our downstairs would be fairly toy free, but Caroline had other plans. She wants to stay downstairs a lot - I think it's because downstairs she can run circles and circles and circles...

Caroline is planning her escape. I put the drinks there to take out to the garage. I guess we're going to have to put the door knob covers on our outside doors, so she really doesn't escape.

She especially enjoyed playing with the dead bolt - it makes more noise than the knob lock.

Cooking with Caroline

Caroline is cooking one of her favorite meals - scrambled eggs. Look at the eggs go! After a couple of minutes she started making a mess, so we had to take the whisk from her which didn't go well. The next time we fixed eggs I gave her a plastic container with water and a smaller whisk so she could get as messy as she wanted. It was a hit!

Outdoor Fun

Caroline is fascinated by lawn mowers so I decided she needed her own. It is supposed to blow bubbles - that part doesn't work quite right - but she doesn't seem to mind. She starts it up and off she goes.

She needed to work on it. As you can see, the bubble solution spills out every time you look under the "hood."

We finally got a chance to swim at my parent's pool since it was put back together after the tornado. We thought Caroline's reactions to sunscreen application were particularly cute.

Here she's cruising around with grandpa.

We were enjoying a really nice evening outside with daddy, grammie and ger. We're not sure what she was doing here.

Caroline was standing on the sidewalk saying, "three, one, two, blastoff!" She'd stand up and squat down while she was counting, then when she got to blastoff she would run and hug my legs. She did this over and over. It's amazing how much energy she has.

I was swinging her between my legs until she started holding her legs out to the side - and then she didn't fit so well.