Celebrating Mama's Birthday

Andrea had lots of fun this past weekend, helping to celebrate Mama's Birthday (which was actually on Monday).

We went out for dinner on Saturday, and went to Gram and Grandpa G.'s for dinner on Sunday. Aunt Steph kindly manned the camera for us on Sunday, so we got a lot of great pictures. Of course, the little ones are hard to get to pose, so we have a lot of "candid" shots. :))

"No, Izzy . . . that's MY Daddy!"

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She's happy as long as she's got her Daddy, and some cheese

(albeit fake).

Great-Gram is cool.

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You mean I have to share my Great-Gram, too?!

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A temporary peace--they each have their own toy to chew on!

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Andrea Scissorhands (or Spring Fingers?)

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"I swear, I do NOT know these crazy people . . ."

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Pucker up for strawberries!

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"Hee, hee . . . I can sneak in while Mama's not looking!"

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Put on your Thinking Cap!

Cute Pictures

Last night, Daddy gave Andrea her bath. He called me in, saying, "Come and look at Andrea, Mama!" and this is what I saw:

Leave it to Daddy to give Andrea a rockin' bathtime hairdo. :)) Daddies certainly have their own ways of doing things!

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Andrea was kind of bored today. I found her old sunglasses in the kitchen, and gave them to her to play with. Anything "new" is amusing for a while. But I never thought we'd end up playing with them all day long! She'd also put them on and do a "Stevie Wonder," rolling her head from side to side. What a silly girl!

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Tonight, Daddy took us out to a restaurant as an early birthday treat for Mommy. Since we were a bit dressed up, I thought it would be a good opportunity to get a shot of us girls--and the belly, of course!--together (I'm usually behind the camera).

I wonder if Andrea knows who's in there? :))

Andrea's Latest Antics

It seems to be getting harder and harder to keep up with everything that Andrea's doing, but here are some of our latest items of interest.

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Andrea has discovered that there is a night-table in the spare room, with lots of "interesting" things in it. In general, this is a bad thing; but she did come out carrying this cute headband one day, and it's been a favourite toy of hers ever since!

Daddy and I are also required to take our turns wearing it, and shake our heads around to make it wiggle, whenever Andrea requests.

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We had two really nice days within the past week. Sunday was sunny, and about 60F, so we went for a walk down to the park (well, Andrea rode in her wagon). She got to go on the swings for the first time since the Fall--and she still loves them!

http://media.putfile.com/On-the-swings-25

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Andrea's newest song is one we can recognize quite clearly--"Twinkle Twinkle Little Star." She sings it really well when no one's watching (of course). But, if we prompt her, she'll sing a bit for us. I got some of it on video, but she was more interested in doing her own thing . . . as usual. :))

http://media.putfile.com/Twinkle-Twinkle-45

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Andrea has also become really interested in shapes recently. Her favourite is "circle," so she calls almost everything "circle" (even though she knows the real names). But my favourites are triangle and rectangle, which she makes even harder to say by adding a syllable or two: "tri-ri-ang-gug-ul" and "rect-tang-gag-gul." She also loves to do puzzles; her favourite, of course, is the shapes puzzle!

http://media.putfile.com/Shapes-Puzzle

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Yesterday, they had a "Green Day" at daycare, in honour of St. Patrick's Day. I swear to you, Andrea did not have a single green item in her entire wardrobe! So I went to the mall and bought her a green t-shirt for $4; then I went to the dollar store and found a bouncy headband for her. I knew she'd love it, because it was just like her star one she found in the spare room! Here's Andrea in her St. Patty's Day gear, before she headed off to daycare yesterday morning. Too cute!

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She also helped Mama mark essays today--in one case, literally! I had to laugh--she grabbed the red pen from my hand, and scribbled on one lady's sheet (oops!). When I turned her scribble sideways, it looked like a wiggly "A+"! Oddly enough, it was an A-level paper! I guess Andrea has some natural-born teacher in her. :)) The picture here is of afterwards, when I got out her own paper and markers, so she could keep me company while I marked.

Weekend Fun

Despite a bad cold, fever, and constantly runny nose, Andrea still managed to have some fun, and keep us entertained this weekend.

On Friday, she discovered a new food combination: Cheerios dipped in blueberry yogurt!
http://media.putfile.com/Cheerios-and-Yogurt

Starting on Friday, and continuing throughout the weekend, Andrea serenaded everyone with this funny little song, that we can't quite identify. I'm calling it "The Jee-was Song." I'm thinking it's a "Jesus" song, something she learned at her daycare, which is Christian. It's so funny, because she's so intent when she sings it, and she does the actions and everything! I'll have to ask the daycare staff about it this week. :))
http://media.putfile.com/The-Jee-was-song

On Saturday evening, Andrea went out to a restaurant with Gram and Grandpa G., and visited at their house, while Mommy and Daddy went to a tax-season party. I got her all dressed up in a new-to-us outfit, and she was SO cute, I just had to take pictures! I don't know if you can tell, but her hair is just long enough now that I could put two adorable little ponytails in the back of her hair. :))

This afternoon, we went to Aunt Stephanie and Uncle Tony's for dinner. Andrea had lots of fun playing with Izzy's toys. The girls are too little to really play together yet, but I was surprised to hear Andrea address Izzy by name, and say, "Hi, Izzy!" quite clearly.

Andrea also enjoyed cuddling with Aunt Stephanie, whom she calls "Sssssssss." Aunt Stephanie's cat, Ralphie, came out to visit with us. He is very friendly, and Andrea was amused by the fact that he let her play with his tail!