Back to regular life

Not much has happened since I returned to New Mexico.  I have been going to day care every day and playing with my dogs.  I miss my cousins and point out their pictures whenever I see them.  We had my 6 month parent/teacher conference yesterday at school.  They said I am doing great with physical skills and helping around the class, I am good with colors and love to sit and read books.  Things I need to work on for the next 6 months are dressing myself, potty training and talking more.  My vocab is fairly limited compared to other 2 year olds - I understand what your saying but I can't say it back yet.  They said if it doesn't pick up they could recommend me to a speech therapist but today a speech therapist watched me in class for a while and said I was trying to say things it just didn't sound like things we could understand and to just keep encouraging me to talk more and if I don't improve over the next 6 months we can evaluate me again. 

Last day in Ohio

Here are some photos from my final day in Ohio.  It was such a great 2 weeks spending time with my cousins and Aunt Heather and Uncle Jeff!  I cant wait to visit them again sometime next year. 

T-ball

Tball is cool.  (really anything my older cousin Cole does is cool).  I have been to two practices and two games now and today after practice I even ran the bases with all the older kids.  At home I have practiced hitting the ball off the tee and I like to wear the batting helmet around the house and outside, although I like to wear it backwards. 

Perhaps I can start playing sports in another year or two!

Parks & Playgrounds

 

 
 It seems that everyday we have gone to a different park.  I like running around in the grass, playing on the playgrounds and having picnic lunches.  Here is a video of me and my cousins playing.

COSI and Cousins

Today my cousins from Medina came down to spend the day with me. We went to the COSI science center and then hung around the house.

Luke (2), Cole (4), Grace (5), Jason (3), Dexter (2), Genna (1)

 

Cole, Luke and I walking into the center from the car

Here I am in the water section of the science center

Everyone having lunch.  The 6 kids plus 5 adults. 

If only daddy was here we could have had one adult for every kid!

Farm life

Today we went to another metro park, this time instead of just a playground (which they also had) there was a historic farm.  I got to meet farmers, go in an old farm house and go inside a barn. I saw cows, horses, pigs, chickens, roosters, turkeys and sheep.  I touched a baby cow, but a more daring Cole also touched a pig and a sheep.  

It was tons of fun!

World of Bounce

Today I went to World of Bounce.  It is a large warehouse with several large bouncy houses and slides inside. It took me just a couple minutes to figure out what to do and then I played for 3 hours straight.  Bouncing, Sliding, Climbing, Running - all very fun. 

Baseball and Grandfather

I have now been to Cole's T-ball game and practices.  I think I know how to wear the batting helmet and I know for sure that I want to play when I get bigger as well.  It looks like fun!

 

Today was my last day with my Grandfather - it sure was nice having him on my vacation.  He pushed me in the swing and went on walks with me. 

Nature Park

Today the whole family went to the nature park to look at butterflies, ducks, turtles and any bug we could find.  It was tons of fun to run around in the park. Can't wait to see what fun happens next.

Max's Birthday Party

 Dexter eating 1/4 of the watermelon

 Dexter(2), Luke(2), Cole(4) and Max(5) having Spiderman birthday cake

 Baby Corwin (1) enjoying a puzzle game.

Today I went to my cousin Max's 5th birthday party up in Oberlin, Ohio.  It was fun to eat the watermelon and cake.  I also played outside a little with light sabers and sprinklers.  Most of my time was spent inside making sure all the doors were closed and playing with two dogs.  (My obsession with brooms shifted a few months ago to doors)  There was also a fun bubble machine outside that I liked playing with as well.  Lucky for me the trip takes 2 hours so I finally got a nap today- it is very hard for me to nap on vacation, there is far to much going on and I am not in my own room so the long car trip was nice for sleep.

Water play

Today we played in the pool.  Well they all did and I stayed outside of the pool.  But I did have fun shooting the water gun. 

Dexter & Luke

I love my cousin Luke.  He is really good at sharing food and books and movies.  It is nice to have someone to play with at all times that is your size.

Cousins!

Dexter, Cole and Luke out for a ride.  I love my vacation!

Broken Hand

I have no picture of this thankfully but today at school Dexter closed a door on a little girl's hand!  She was one of the newer members of the class so she must have just turned 2 years old.  Dexter is fairly obsessed with having doors closed all the time and I can easily see how he would have shut the door without looking.  So sad, I hope it is not broken but the staff seemed to think it was!  We leave tomorrow for Ohio but Dan is going to check up on the situation this week to see how the little girl, Aspen, is doing. 

All better

Fever is gone.  I am feeling better.  Just in time for my airplane ride on Wednesday.

Now if the stock market could stop falling so my college savings stops dropping my stomach will feel better. 

fever

Mommy and I are sick.  We have 4 days to get better before we fly to Ohio.  I am pretty sure sleeping on the couch watching my favorite movies will get me better in time.

Mischief

Crawling under a car, getting my own chocolate milk. 

I like that I can do whatever I want.

Night Night

I used to sleep with George and just put my night time book on the shelf next to my bed.  

Now I sleep with George and my Toy Story books.  

Night night all my blog followers!