Bubble beard

Maggie got a bubble beard while taking a bath the other day and Molly said "Awe Maggie!  You look like Uncle Chris!"  So then she wanted to join in the bubble beard fun.  Here they are with their bubble beards.  The resemblance to Uncle Chris is uncanny!

Never quite figured out what to do with those things.  Things she has figured out:  Walking a little bit while holding onto things, clapping, waving, and she's a peek-a-boo master.  She also very skilled at finding any tiny piece of paper on the ground and then holding it in her mouth indefinitely, turning it into a little spit wad.

Let's hope this doesn't mean she's a budding Dexter.  She had these not exactly Barbie dolls, one was a "Mom" and the other was the "Baby".  A while back she took the heads off and switched them...fantastic.  Then today she took the Mom head/Baby body combo and completely dissembled it. Then she wanted us to fix it...but wait...no...SHE wanted to fix it.  All by herself.  Then she needed tape.  How much?  8 pieces...no...wait...9!  Nine pieces it is!  She actually did a pretty good job "fixing" it, considering what she was working with.

She loves to help water the plants.  Sometimes she gets a little a carried away.  Today she was hanging  the water wand on the fig tree and making it rain.

Here she is before

This is her after.

This could be a picture of Sasquatch.  Or it could be of the little hummingbird who kept trying to come down and get a drink of the rain.

I told her to stand back and let it come down and get a sip, but instead she wanted to go the instructional route and show the hummingbird what it should do.  It made a few attempts to get close, but in the end 3 year olds are terrifying.

As I'm sure I've mentioned before, she's really into smelling flowers.  Jonny planted these sunflowers in the front and they're kind of fun to have around.  This one is called the little Becca, so of course it's my favorite. Shortly after this, she tore off every petal of the little Becca.  I think it's a terrible omen.  Not really, but I wish she'd just leave them alone.

There are all these funny stories that I have of all the funny things that Molly says, but right now the only one I can remember is this one:  I had just set Molly's sandwich down on the ottoman, and Riley just casually walked by and snatched it up, like I'd put it down for her. I said "Man Riley!  Got some pretty big balls there!".  Thankfully Molly was there to set me straight "Mama!  That's silly!  Balls don't have dogs!"  (She mixes things up sometimes).  She's always coming up with gems like that one. I could watch my mouth...but then I would miss out on her witty replies.

Sleepover

We took a quick trip to California this past weekend, but I should probably start with Easter, since I didn't ever post those pictures.  We still had to coach her a little, but she did pretty good this year finding her eggs.  She was really into it. We had about 30 items for her to find, but it wasn't enough, when we finished, she wanted to start all over.  My Dad indulged her and did hide stuff again for her to find.

Maggie even found one!

Molly and Maggie with Granny

On Friday we took a last minute trip to California to visit some family.  We also had a chance to take Molly to Legoland for her first time.  She was really into it, and had a great time making Jonny go on all the rides.

 

This was my favorite ride.  3-5 year olds driving cars. For me, the 3 year olds make this ride awesome, but for the 5 year olds, they're completely ruining it by crashing all of the time.  They told her to turn her wheel, which she did...left, right, left right (in quick succession). I think she thought it was like her plasma car.  The looks of confusion on her and this other kid's face crack me up.

 I'm guessing that this is the worst job at Legoland: redirecting all the junior "drivers".

This is how she ended her race.  The truth is, she never even completed a lap.  Maybe next time.

Somebody creeping on Molly and I on our boat ride.

Found the creep!

There's also a nifty aquarium there.  Molly in a bubble.

While on the trip, Molly was fascinated with idea of sleeping at the hotel.  She called it the sleepover and asked if we were going to live there now.  She made Jonny sleep in her bed with her and he said that she wouldn't sleep unless her feet were somewhere on him.  Even though Maggie didn't let me get too much rest, I'm kind of glad I didn't have to share with little miss bed hog.
Maggie wasn't too happy about being in her car seat.  I'm not sure how she knew this trip was going to be different from our regular trips around town, but as soon as I would set her in her seat, she would scream.  Kind of a bummer since I was sort of hoping we could leave town as often as possible this summer.  Hopefully we can work something out.

The Great Outdoors

Actually, I'm going to start with the indoors.  About a month ago, we had some 6 month/3year pictures taken by Bill Butler. I thought it was interesting how much Maggie reminded me of Molly at the same age.  Or maybe it was just the white background/same white dress/6 month old baby combo. 

Here we are outside.  Since for now, the weather is still pretty nice, we like to hang out in the yard and even eat our dinners outside.  This will be coming to an end soon enough, so may as well take advantage while we can.

Maggie is a skilled crawler now.  I told Molly that we should enter her in a baby race and she came up with this long story about how really we should get her a little car so she can go really fast and also we're going to need to build a racetrack.

She also does a lot of this business.  Trying to walk away.

Hanging out in front of Papa and Gran's

Molly's really into the idea of camping, so we're probably going to have to take her on a "real" camping trip eventually, but for now she's pretty happy with s'mores cooked over the smokey joe.

She's not to be trusted with the marshmallow bag.

I've been trying to capture that "Popeye" face that Molly also did around this age.  This one reminds me the most of Molly's face

 

 But I think this one might take the Popeye cake,