Playtime Fun

Delphia is really good about entertaining herself but sometimes she just needs me to do things with her. Today she wanted me to watch her rock with her animals and to put monkey back on everytime he fell off.

After she tired of rocking we did puzzles. Let me just begin by saying that she a puzzle master. Just after she turned 2 she was really into a 12 piece puzzle that Grandma Cook had. She did this puzzle over and over and finally she could do it no problem and she was pretty fast at it. Then y mom got a 24 piece puzzle and after maybe 15 times doing it she was a master at putting it together. Around the first part of December they bought 3 more 12 piece puzzles at she could put them together by herself the first time. She still loves to put them together. For Christmas we got her a set of 4 48 piece puzzles. If we sit down with her she can pretty much put them together by herself with hardly any help. The only problem is, she gets bored before she get them finished. I wish they had 36 piece puzzles. I am amazed at how good she is at puzzling! She takes fter me I guess because I love puzzles

After w did a puzzle we read every single Dora library book that we had wwhich we had just gotten last night. After that we checked the mail and visited with Pat and Judy (the mail lady). We then came n and had a lunch of eggs and toast for Delphia and an Egg McMuffin for me. She watched a Dora episode and played picnic and then went for a nap.

She has been fighting naps lately but I am not quite ready to give in. She lays in her bed and plays and sings and then starts to cry. I finally go in to get her to sleep and she tells me she wants out. I tuck her back in and pat her tummy and she is asleep in under 5 minutes and will then sleep for about 90 minutes or so.

Wanna Trade?

As I have said before Delphia loves popsicles! She always thinks we have to watch a movie while we eat them though. On Sunday she wanted to watch a movie and eat popsicles so we got her a rootbeer popsicle and Shane and I had Cookies and Cream Weight Watcher popsicles. She had a couple licks of Shane's but when his was gone she wanted mine. I told her that would trade her which is what she wanted. About 3 licks into eating my popsicle she looked like she had a mustache and a beard. I told Shane to go get the camera, but by the time he made it back with the camera she had touched her hand to her mouth and smeared the moustache masterpiece!

Picnic

Delphia loves to have picnics. She loves to grab her blanket and have a picnic with ALL her stuffed animals. The other night she brought them into the computer room and had a pillow to sit them around. One by one she brought them in and they all got a chance to eat at the picnic. She would then roll the blanket up and move it somewhere else. She kept telling me she was rolling it up like a pizza?!? She always wants me to get down on the floor and participate and I always tell her that it isn't comfortable for me to sit on the floor. How's that for a mean mommy!
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Happy Birthday to Who?

Delphia is really into pretending right now and the most normal thing become totally different in her imagination. Se has a stick pony from the dollar store and it amazes me the things she thinks of to use it for besides riding it like a horse. Riding it is actually the thing she does the least of. Sometimes she uses it as a bat with her dustpan as her mitt. Other times she uses for a "hangbrella" (umbrella) to keep the rain from getting her wet even though we are in the house or the car. She can say umbrella but calls it a "hangbrella," go figure! Sometimes it is her fishing pole and she winds it up" to catch her fish.

So, it didn't surprise me when she decided that her drum lid was a birthday cake. She was blowing out the candles and pretending to at it. At one point she had what she refers to as her "birthday hat" on her head. Her birthday hat is actually a white wicker basket turned upside down on her head with the handle under her chin. I never know what she will come up with next!

A New Valentine Decoration

I saw a cute banner on a blog last week and decided I needed a banner for Valentines. I had a Cricut Cartridge of my mom so I set to work. I finally inished in on Monday and was excited to get it hung up even though it's only February. I love the extra holiday feeling it gives the mirror!

Homemade Slippers

My mom and I went to Pine Needles earlier in the month and saw some slippers they had made and loved them but they were out of the pattern. About a week later I called and they had the pattern in and put it on hold for me. My mom and I made these last Thursday. They were really easy to sew but time consuming to cut out because you had to cut 3 tops and 8 bottoms and the soles. They turned out cute if I say so myself and I love to wear them around the house. Phia wants a pair as she is constantly wearing mine around the house so I will have to make her a pair after the first ones I made were way too small for her chubby feet!

Dora, Lionel and Peppermint Patties Oh My!

Delphia is my chocolate girl or "cloclate" as she says it. She wants to go to the "cloclate" library, she wants "cloclate" ice cream and "cloclate" cereal. Whenever we are at my mom's she wants treats and if you ask her what she wants it is usually chocolate. Just yesterday she wanted a Tootsie Pop and I told my mom she could have any flavor but chocolate. My mom brought down the box and what did she choose, choclate! During the beginning of January my mom had Peppermint Patties which Phia loves. Delphia asked for a mint and Grandma gave her one and this is where I found her enjoying he mint under the chair in the kitchen with Lionel

She also loves Dora anything so when we found this Dora shirt at Target we got it for her.

Christmas 2009

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Review of 2009!

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