Preparing for fiesta - and my new dress

 Did you all know that I am going to be in a parade?! It's a Fiesta Parade for children.

Granny made me a special dress to wear in the parade.

It's a great dress for dancing. Thank you Granny!

Here's the frame for the float - it's going to be a boat!

I checked to make sure it was sturdy.

We're painting it to look like it's made of wood.

bench

No no I don't need any help getting up on this bench. I can do it myself.

Oh yeah. I did it. Standing on the bench.

July 11

Spinning on the papasan chair

Fried maraca

Signing "more" while spinning

my own obstacle course

July 9

I noticed that Vivi tried to draw inside shapes I drew on her chalkboard, so I drew some balloons. Sure enough, she colored them in.

Chips and guacamole!

Even tortellini (on my finger) is good with guacamole.

Eeee eeee

eee eeee eeee

Vivi found some of Mommy's old toys (a space shuttle and airplane that carries the shuttle) on a shelf and have been "flying" them around the house saying "eeee eeee."

Monkey at the zoo

There's a monkey loose at the zoo!

A monkey watching the monkey (gibbon - just above Vivi's head swinging from a rope).

I think that tortoise is watching me.

July 7

I chased this shadow all over and finally caught it!

Look where I went! A water park!

Big girl bed

I have been working hard on learning to climb out of my crib and finally was able to get my foot up to the top rail. Mommy and Daddy were so impressed with my climbing that they graduated me to a big girl bed. Yay me! Now I can get in and out (and in and out and in and out and in and out) of my bed all by myself.

4th of July

Happy 4th of July

We saw my friend from pre-school. Aren't we festive?

Ring-a-round the rosies

Dancing to the music

Happy July.

Making cookies

Butterflies

I love this bridge. I ran across it 5 times!

Things to do with chalk

Apparently our understanding of how to play with toys is very limited. We see blocks and think "build a tower" and chalk and think "draw a picture." To Vivi, however, objects don't have a history yet (see previous post on things to do with blocks). Today, Vivi explains things to do with chalk.

We will skip "draw on chalkboard" (too obvious a use).

Put them in Mommy's shoes. (Too bad the shoes aren't Sketchers brand - that would have been funny.)

Chalkhenge.

(the building of Chalkenge)

Put them under the door.

Crayola cargo

Not pictured -  rolling the chalks on the floor, eating the chalk, and dumping the chalk out on the floor and putting them back in the bucket.

Painting and goats

Happy Saturday.

I worked on some masterpieces.

Then I visited the flamingos at the zoo.

I even fed the goats. I was a little afraid at first...

...But I got brave.

Then I came home and painted again. This time, I painted my tummy.

movies

Sunglasses thief

Swings!

Butterflies

Butterflies at the museum

One landed right on me.

And I got to dig for dinosaur bones.

Messy

Mom and Dad thought putting my paint in an ice cube tray would be less messy...