Where a Kid Can Be a Kid

We went to Chuck E Cheese the other night. Piper had been there before with her daddy, but I had not been with her before. She really liked the carousel and the climbing tunnels with the slide. Erick even took her into the big tunnels. We have lots of tokens left over and a receipt for 500 tickets. Someday we'll cash them in for a decent prize when she's bigger. She doesn't know what she's missing now.

Winter Photos

It finally snowed and stuck to the ground. Piper is fascinated by this white stuff, and can't quite figure out what it is. She even got to try out her new snow boots. She hated them when I first put them on, but she thinks the zipper is fun to play with.

Christmas Crafts

I'm trying to come up with some craft ideas for Piper to do this Christmas. Yesterday we worked on tissue paper art. She put the paper on the contact paper, then I cut it out. They turned out okay, and she had fun making a big mess.

New Playthings

Piper got a new table and chairs from one of my friends, along with a bunch of other stuff. We are saving the kitchen playset and grocery cart for Christmas from Santa...shhh! Some of the other items I put back until she gets a little older- like the tricycle and puppet theater. The table is a little big for her, but she can manage to climb up on the chair. Imagine that! :) I've moved all of her art supplies into her room for now. They were on the dining room table, but I'm tired of it being covered with clutter. Hopefully she'll get an easel for Christmas too.

We need a bigger place for all of her new stuff!

Making Cookies

Last night we made chocolate chip cookies, and Piper got to help. Even standing on her step stool, she is too short to reach the counter. So she sat on the counter and helped add ingredients to the bowl. She even helped stir the chocolate chips in at the end.

She wasn't too sure about licking the beaters at first, but tried it out before finally throwing it on the floor. I think she liked eating the cookies the best of all.

Daredevil

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Boy does this child like to climb. So much that she scares me to death at times. Like tonight, she was using her book basket to climb into the chair. And, she was rocking the chair by herself. Then she figures out that she can climb from the chair over the table to the couch. Yes, I was right there, you can see the camera jerk when I thought she was going to fall out of the chair once. You seriously have to watch her every second!

Body Parts

Here is a sample of some of the body parts Piper knows. She has to really be in the mood to show off for me and let me videotape it at the same time.

Friday Flashback

Here's a photo from last spring. She was probably 5-6 months old. Erick made her this swing/bouncer. I promise it was safer than it looks!

Happy Thanksgiving

The Ball Problem

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Here is my funky munky figuring out how to get the ball out of the water bottle. I had to help her a little with the lid since she had trouble unscrewing such a large lid. She's good with smaller ones, but this was too much. I thought it was interesting to watch how she learned she couldn't just pull the ball out with her hand. It was too big to fit through the hole.

Bye Bye Bottle

We officially got rid of Piper's final bottle last week. She was still taking one at bedtime a lot of nights even though we are still nursing. So now she gets a sippy cup if she needs it at night. She has also been doing a lot better about sleeping all night. I can't even remember the last time she woke up at night. The one time she did cry recently, I just brought her to bed with me without nursing her, and she fell back asleep right away. I'm hoping this new trend continues, since I'm getting much more sleep lately.

Ball Drop Explanation

I posted this again because the first video I posted is not working for me. It's taking forever to load. That video is a combination of three clips mixed together. The video labeled Ball Drop is just one of the clips. Basically it shows how she figured out where to put the balls and how she knows to track them as they roll down the different ramps. She also knows to get the ball from the exit at the bottom. However this particular clip doesn't show everything obviously. I didn't want to import all three videos separately.

FYI: I hate that Photobucket will nto let me add comments when I import my video to Blogger.

Ball Drop

I Thought I Taw a Putty Tat

We went bowling last night. I wasn't too sure I wanted to go since I wasn't sure about how loud it would be. Turns out it was fairly quiet until the very end. We bowled a couple of games. My first games sucked, I think I bowled a 100 even. Second game was better at 164. Candice took Piper to the arcade during our second game and won her a Tweety Bird stuffed animal. Just what she needs...more stuffed animals! :) This thing is bigger than she is too!

Halfway through our game the family across from us asked me what my name was because I looked familiar. It turned out to be a former student from five years ago. She had a friend with her from the same class. I had thought the parents seemed vaguely familiar, but didn't even think about it. The girls, Beth and Olivia, were so grown up. I can't believe it has been that long since they were in first grade.

Piggy Bank

I showed Piper how to put pennies in her piggy bank last night. She had fun putting them all in there, and even figured out that there was a plug on the bottom to get them back out. Maybe she'll be a better saver than Mommy and Daddy are.

New Painting

This was the first time we tried painting with a paintbrush. She definitely prefers using her fingers still. I had a hard time convincing her not to taste the paint too, since we used tempera this time instead of finger paint. The picture was painted on canvas and turned out really well. Afterwards her hands were stained even though the paint was washable. She soaked and played in the tub and soon was squeaky clean.

Helping with Laundry

Usually she's a much better helper. Today she thought she'd inspect the dryer for Daddy. He says she climbed in there all by herself. Now I'm really going to have to watch her!

Shape Puzzle

I got her a shape puzzle because the other ones she had were too hard with too many corners to fit in the spot. She can do the circle, square, and triangle pretty well now. Sometimes she'll do the rectangle. Everything else is still kinda hard to figure out where they go. If she takes out one piece at a time though, she always knows how to fit it back in the board. I don't think it will be too long before she can do it all. This video is really short. I had to film it on a different camera and I didn't have much memory left.

Reading

Here is my sweetie reading her number book. I found these cute tights for Piper at Macy's. They are from LittleMissMatched.