Snack Time

Hide and Seek

Who knew playing hide-and-seek in a box could be so much fun?!

Boxes

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17 months!

Little Dean is 17 months old today! One more month until he moves out of the baby room at daycare, for which he is SUPER excited! He gets SO mad when he can't go play with the big kids!
At 17 months he:

• Wears sizes 18 months, 24 months and 2T
• Wears size 6 shoes and size 4 diapers
• Runs all the time!
• LOVES to climb up on anything, but is afraid to step off the wii fit without help.
• Calls dad "dad" and me "da" (how annoying is that!)
• Says "ball, owl, bye, eye, hi"
• Can identify all the parts of his face (particularly nose)
• Can sort of use a spoon and fork, but always goes back to fingers.
• Loves to slurp up noodles
• If you say bumble bee he says "bumble bee" and waves his finger around to get you to sing the bumble bee song. (It's really very cute!)
• "Sings" along with the radio
• Dances to any song he hears
• Is trying to figure out jumping, but hasn't quite got it yet.
• Loves any kind of buttons.
• Understands lots of commands, and is starting to figure out "NO"

Storybook Land

This Friday was the final day of the Christmas Storybook land, and since our attempts to go last weekend were foiled by a little ice, we had to go then. We met Grandma & Grandpa at the fairgrounds at about 6:15 (not knowing that it didn't actually open until 6:30) which was a good thing, because there was already a line!

There are Christmas trees with lights making a path through the building, and scenes from various story books set up to look at, they also have a big section with teddy bears doing all kinds of things, and some huge model train sets, and a victorian doll house version of town. My personal favorite part is the smell of all the Christmas trees!

At the entrance to the path there were 2 life sized toy soldiers, and I thought that that would be the end of our trip. Dean saw them and started to freak out, but I whisked him past, and we skillfully avoided any other life sized characters.

It took him a few minutes to relax after the scary statues, but once we got to the Frosty the Snowman station, he started to point and laugh and "What's That?" to everything again. He loved watching the trains and the teddy bears and pointed at everything.

We decided not to risk a trip to Santa, plus it was getting late and the line was long, and we were still going to go eat (Dean also had his first public meltdown, Grandma & Grandpa were shocked!).

Wordless Wednesday