Feels Like Summer

Yesterday it was over 80 degrees here, se we let the girls get their swimsuits on and play outside with the water a little bit. We lathered on the sunscreen, put the hose (just a small drip, really) on the trampoline, and they had a great time getting wet and jumping a little bit. Allison was pretty funny because although she is not walking yet, she will stand up on the trampoline and try to jump. It's just that forward motion that's holding her back, I guess.

Of course we had to have otter pops, too. Allison did pretty well eating hers, I just had to push it up a little bit every once in awhile but she would bite it off and hold it just fine. Emily of course is an otter pop pro by now.

This is a photo of Allison's teeth. You can kind of see them...her two front teeth are like two little round blobs sticking out of her gums, and her bottom teeth are all crooked. But at least she has some (8 I think now). Three months ago she had none!

Emily's preschool is having a recycling contest for the month of March. If they brought in a big bag of cans/bottles they could pick a prize from the treasure chest. We saved up all our cans and bottles for three weeks (trying to use a few more than usual, of course) and she got to take in her bags and pick her prize. She picked a little set of sidewalk chalk. As luck would have it, Daddy was coming home from three days away that evening, so we decided to put her new prize to good use and make him a sign on the driveway. Emily told me what to write:

Emily worked especially hard on the "fence" at the top and coloring in many of the letters and our family drawing. Allison helped by crawling through it a few times and smearing the chalk all over herself. She also tried to eat it, as she does anything she can get her chubby hands on.

Another of Allison's latest achievements is learning to eat with a fork and spoon. Well, the spoon is still coming along, but she did really well stabbing her mac 'n' cheese and getting it into her mouth. She ate almost her whole plate with the fork.
And this other picture I just thought was kind of cute. I am just now realizing she's pouting in this photo (probably this was the day of the sidewalk chalk, after she got stuck in the stroller to keep her out of the chalk), but her chubby cheeks and hair hanging down in her eyes...it's just typical Allison right now.