The Tornado

My little Tornado. There are going to be a lot of pictures in this one! Cap was a little younger when I did this same first painting activity with him. He was a little sick at the time and the experience was 95% miserable for him. My clean boy did not want the paint on him. This girl of mine however, I just knew would be different. Cap didn't hardly touch his 1st birthday treat, my Tuoly will clabber hers this Saturday!

And we start

bbc (baby butt crack)

Started with one color first, green

She wanted to show me

Then we added some yellow 

She was loving the paint in her fingers

She was off to find the yellow paint bottle 

Mean while, Cap was painting some letters

C, A, P 

While taking pictures of brother she found the red

Her first "intentional" paint on the canvas

then the foot got in it

At some point she got it on her lips...pretty cute!

she now realized she could see herself

crawled over 

checking it all out

looking at the mess

high fiving herself for the mess

decided to get more messy

we then went on to eating it

We decided we were about done at this point. All this took place in about 6-7 minutes!

It was incredibly chaotic, but fun! No tears either! The key to doing stuff like this with little ones, is to plan it ALL out. Have it ready before hand and think about clean up. We had a bucket of water ready to go when it was over with a wash rag.

Enjoy

11 months

She is going to be 1 by the time I finally post this! Written at 11 months but just now putting it up.

- your newest nickname is Tornado. your destruction still amazes me!
- you like to pass things back and forth
- you seem to really like music or things that make noise
- if a guitar is on the floor you crawl immediately to play on it, you even use it as a walker because it slides so nice on the carpet floor
- you will eat pureed food, but prefer what is on our plate
- you love to eat dirt and you once ate an entire dandelion, you were too quick for me to catch!
- persistent, persistent, persistent...it will serve you well one day if it is harnessed in the right way
- you sometimes cry at night for a week straight. It can last for 2 hours or just off and on all night long. I have no idea why you do this. The only thing I come back to is you are overly tired and it makes it hard to sleep at night. Then you are back to sleeping fine the next week. Doesn't make much sense. We are way past going in your room at night, but still you cry on!
- you have really thinned out now that you are moving around so much, though you are just as heavy!
- you had Roseola this month. you were more miserable with it than you were with the flu back in February
- you can unzip things, which amazes me! you are very good with your fingers. you even unclip your bullet leash as soon as I put it on you.
- you try to attack the toilet paper when you go to the bathroom. sometimes you win.
- i am convinced you are trying to say a lot of different words.
- you copy lots of sounds and faces we make
- Cap STILL makes you laugh the loudest and hardest. you two are so silly together!

I love you and I think you are awesome.

Pics from February

I have been working on several different post for weeks now. I am giving up today and posting some pictures instead! This first set is from our visit in Texas this past February. Taking pictures of your own two kids is not easy! Cap has always been so easy and has loved the camera, but get the two of them together and it just gets goofy!

Love all these rolls! Glad I captured this before the thin out!

Tuolumne has always had such expressive eyebrows.

What hands! Hard to imagine what these hands will do 

and where they will go.

Enjoy,

spesh

10 months

10 months seems like a big one because I know how big the change can be this next month. We have really enjoyed the last couple of weeks and how Tuolumne is becoming more of an active member of this family. We are slowly but surely leaving the baby stage and moving on up in our exploration of life! Here are a few thing we jotted down last week when she turned 10 months.

- Started to crawl at 9 months and 3 weeks old

- Gives high fives

- Signs more and a version of all done but only at times

- Says momma, bubba, dadda (not sure or not if you are saying actual words or just sounds)

- Started trying to pull up on things before you crawled

- You also could go from all fours to sitting before you could crawl

- Crawling exploded your world! Your mind is turning and going on high speed. I love it!

- You do this gymnast type move where you try to go from sitting to standing without holding onto anything. One day it will work and your persistence and hard wok will pay off. 

- Your top 4 teeth are showing pretty good now:) 

- This month you have decided that 5 is the new 7am. We do not like this and ask you to please stop. We leave you in bed talking away till about 6 or until your almost past your happy place. 

- You had some RSV this month and you were miserable for a couple weeks

- I took your socks off one night and noticed you had a pretty good sock tan going on from just being outside a couple of times. You are going to have a dark complexion

- Your nickname this month is destroyer. I don't mean this in a bad way because I love your desire to conquer and rid the "fill in the blank" of all of its belongings. :)
- You do a great job riding whether it is in a stroller, car, ergo or hiking backpack. You are okay just hanging out when we are on the move.
- We added some egg yoke and peanut butter to your food this month along with a little of this and that on our plate. Arriving to the peanut butter age makes me one happy mom!

Keep up the good work Tuolumne. I love you!

took these the morning we left for our camping trip in Utah

the girl doesn't do well when she knows change is about to happen!

wanted this month pics to be in pampers because her first week being 10 months

was spent in these! 

Had to have a toothy smile!