Thursday, April 19, 2012

Professional Cruiser

Here is a little update on Camille at 11 months:

Camille loves to push things around. She is not walking on her own yet.


She is a snuggler. I love it! Camille's first word was "Hi," said in varying pitches. She starts low and goes really high so that her voice squeaks and then the pitch lowers at the end again.


She is a good eater and not picky. Hallelujah!


She is a professional cruiser.


Here are the kids helping with laundry. Camille is really good at emptying the baskets and pulling clothes out of the dryer. And boys will be boys.

St Patrick's Day

We set a trap for those sneaky leprechauns. The kids had such a good time! Here is a link to how we made the trap.
http://www.notmartha.org/archives/2011/03/16/leprechaun-trap-cake/


But that clever leprechaun got out of our trap by eating his way out of the cake and taking the coins with him. He tracked frosting all over the dining room, the little beastie.


That afternoon we went hiking as a family. What better way to spend St Patrick's Day than be surrounded by green.


Camille's a good hiker. In fact, all of our kids are good hikers. It is one of our favorite things to do as a family.


The boys found water. Big surprise! They thought it was cool to throw chunks of snow in and watch it melt as it floated away.


It was a pretty area. Sad thing is the weekend after we were there a wildfire swept through the place we were hiking.

Littleton Museum

We went to a local museum that lets kids do many things hands-on. There is an old homestead with a farm. They milk cows and everything. There is a section that is designed for imagination play and the kids could have played there all day.


The kids are playing in the barn waiting to milk the cow.


Camille had a good time playing with the pretend food.


Caleb has a fabulous imagination and he loves pretending to cook. This kitchen was heavenly for him. I wanted to get Camille a play kitchen for her birthday, but I couldn't justify it because Camille is still a little young for it, but Caleb would get a lot of use out of it. Maybe for Christmas, or maybe for Caleb's birthday. Is that weird to get your little boy a kitchen?


Having a pretend picnic complete with a butter churn.