Tiny Talk Tuesday

All this 23-month-old has to talk about this week:

"Cousins! Couuuuusins! Cousins? Cousiiiiins? Cousins GONE!"

A couple more cousin photos for you...

Makeup sessions:
Chalk on the driveway:
Cartwheels on the beach:
Dressup:
The first of the birthday presents:

Gratitude

As part of our year of gratitude, we're posting our thankful list at the end of each month. In no specific order, here is March's list:

1. Cousins
2. Aunts
3. The beach
4. Sand
5. Rubber boots
6. Science museums
7. Drinking fountains
8. Escalators
9. 75% off toy sales
10. Bounces - and Tiggers
11. Wheels on wagons
12. Ink
13. Pizza
14. Sleep - finally
15. Spots of blue in the sky
16. Tulips to put in vases
17. Cooking time - and measuring spoons
18. Yellow!
19. Snow falling - big snowflakes
20. Book about BIG snowman
21. Gloves on feet
22. Markers to color Os
23. Garden Vegetable Wheat Thins
24. Friends to run around with
25. Rice
26. Crackers
27. A comfortable bed
28. Stickers
29. Chocolate soymilk
30. Carob chips
31. Curious George
32. Cats that sleep on their backs with their bellies showing
33. Curtains
34. Letter Cs that look like rainbows
35. Copy machines
36. Warm winds
37. Violets
38. Rainbow shapes
39. Dust pans
40. Long baths and pruny feet
41. Sleeping in
42. Cameras
43. Water
44. Gravity
45. Ketchup!

Thursday 13 - Things To Do With Cousins

Still busy with my cousins here in Portland! Here are 13 things you can do with cousins...

#1 - Jump on the trampoline!
#2 - Be a cat!
#3 - Be a cat with a big ball!
#4 - Ride Carl, a trusty steed!!
#5 - Eat waffles at Tiger's Cafe!

#6 - Zap my cousin with my handy saber! #7 - Play the xylophone! #8 - Drink hot chocolate and get a chocolate mustache.

#9 - Try on lots of shoes!

#10 - Be in a fashion show with all those shoes!

#11 - Act out the Statue of Liberty!

#12 - Put on a lion mane and growl!

#13 - Put a foam letter on your head and practice your dance moves!

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More Thursday 13 participants can be found here.
Thanks to Samulli for the Thursday 13 header.

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Wordful Wednesday - OMSI

We went to OMSI yesterday - me and my cousins. There is some awesome stuff there! I could play there all day for days, I'm sure!

So let's see... First we invented some ball boggling ideas in the ball room.

Then we experienced an earthquake in the earthquake house.
Then we floated sailboats using a wind machine.And we played in a sand area with all kinds of cool toys. But I got in trouble for throwing sand at another girl. I don't understand why.
After that I put on a smock and rubber boots and we played in the water pool.
And we saw lots of pretend animals and I gathered acorns and stored them away for winter and went into hibernation in this cave.And my cousins showed me how to drink from a drinking fountain.And then we sat around FOREVER and waited for the boys to join us for lunch.Later that day we saw a movie in the Omnimax. It was about mummies! There was a great big screen, and it felt like we were right there in Egypt! At first I kept saying, "Wow! Woah!" I watched the WHOLE thing and only had one little fright when it seemed like the sand was caving in on us. Here we are after the show.

After some good quality time in the gift shop, we went back home. I love spending time with my cousins, but boy am I tired!

Wordless Wednesday - Cousins!

No time to blog - I'm visitin' with my cousins, and we are much too busy! Mommy and I drove to Portland Monday to see them.

But we've got hundreds of photos, so I'm gonna share some with you. Here are the faces...

Not Me! Monday

Well, let's see. There are lots of things I haven't been doing lately. Like not insisting on wearing my monkey mask everywhere, even while I eat!

And I certainly am not acting like a monkey while I wear my monkey mask!

After all, monkeys eat bananas. Wanna know my secret peanut butter banana toast recipe? Well, first you toast a piece of bread. Then you spread peanut butter on it. Then you put sliced bananas on it. Then you top it all with whipped cream.

And you definitely don't eat just the whipped cream and ask for refills of whipped cream. No, a monkey would never do that. They would eat the whole thing. Uh oh, I think I'm getting myself in a quandary with all this "Not Me!" stuff...

A couple of other things - I would never ask for ketchup on my ice cream and then happily eat it that way! That sounds gross, right?

I would NEVER NEVER NEVER draw on the wall with my dry erase marker. I don't like leaving permanent evidence of my mischief lying around.

I wouldn't play in the bath so long that my feet get pruny. Not when I have such cute BIG toes and TINY toes.

And I am definitely not bright enough to figure out how to get the straw into the little hole on my juice pak that I snuck out of my diaper bag while in the car. After all, I'm not even 2 yet. And if I did get the straw in, I would never spill that juice all over myself in the car seat.

Happy Monday, folks!