Miscellaneous Life

Here are some things we've been doing lately.

Painting at the new easel. So fun. So many masterpieces.

Fixing our hair. Sweet sweet Aunt Lyndi took Mer out for ice cream the other day, and then to Walgreens where she allowed Mer to pick a treat. After talking Mer out of baby bottles and bibs for baby sister (very sweet, but might have been a disappointment eventually), Meredith picked out a giant, tacky (Lyndi said so too) heart shaped plastic purse full of thousands of hair ties of all varieties. She loves them. She moves them from bag to bag, sorts them, dumps them out, picks them up, and puts as many as possible in her hair and announces that she's ready to go. See below.

Dancing, and dressing up. We wear our princess dress or our ballerina clothes every day. On this day, she also wanted to wear her dad's hat (that we all agree makes ANY wearer look kind of nuts) and her backpack. Homeless ballerina? Oh - and she's holding the hat that she wanted me to wear.

Cooking. With authority. She helps me almost everytime I cook, and the below pic was the first time she was willing to stir something on the hot stove. When you're learning how to cook, the most important things to remember are these: ALWAYS wait for directions, and ALWAYS ask permission before you do anything. Progress on both fronts is slow. In her defense, she modified our healthy muffin recipe the other day while I answered the phone, and darned if they weren't the best ever...it was something to do with baking powder.