Monday, September 28, 2009

September 28, 2009

Sharing blocks.


Looking up at the cleaners on the stairs.

Trying to shut the door.

Warily eyeing the cleaners -- she is so curious and so cautious.

Drawing a pillow.

Playing with the always enchanting tubing.




Drawing a...

...duck!

Together on the stairs.


Making a house for Tyrone.

Cuddling Kate.


Putting together her puzzle.

We played a game with the rhyming puzzle cards today -- Suki would choose the first card.

And as quickly as she could Grace would find its rhyming match! It was great to find a game that they could play together.

I thought Kate was just having fun in this blocks box but a minute or so later I realized she was stuck, too stuck to get herself out. Of course, it only took a few minutes before she sat herself right back down in it.

We've known Kate had the skills to get down the stairs by herself but were still working up the courage for ourselves to let her do it. If we put her on her belly, feet down the steps at the top she'll slide herself down but she won't flop down and do it that way herself. If I stand a few steps down she assumes I'm going to catch her and just walks off the top step all devil may care like. Today I caught her just sitting on the top step. She carefully scooted herself down and that's when I grabbed the camera:

Sunday, September 27, 2009

September 27, 2009

Playing together before breakfast.

Suki decided this was No Pants Sunday.


Looking for birds.



Sweet Grace.



Kate's getting so proficient at getting the rings on and off this grippy stand.

Reading with Suki.



This chasing game involves a girl holding each end of the nebulizer cord and running through the house, with the third girl in hot pursuit.


Looking at the yard on a wet day.



Trying to share the house didn't work...

...so I got Kate a barn.

Then I thought I was going to get a sharing picture but instead got one of an outraged Suki when Kate came encroaching on her house again.

Washing off the paint Grace missed.





Sharing apples in the kitchen.




Suki practices her mad face.

Grace shows off hers.

Even Kate seems to try.

Angry faces aside, we had lots of fun painting and playing Ring Around the Rosie, too.