I decided to get myself organized, and clean my house from end to end (not top to bottom, because I'm not in the mood to climb into a 120+ degree attic right now, lol). So, I've spent the last week getting many things organized. I may have to make another trip to the dollar store, to get more containers to organize into (they had some wonderful cloth fold-up baskets there!).
Anyway, I got Rebecca's toys all sorted into three containers and put onto a shelf of a book case we picked up from the trash. The thing was missing one shelf, but that's perfect, because the bottom shelf holds all her toys in their baskets perfectly, and then the top shelf will have a purpose in about 6-9 months beyond just holding books/toys. Of course, I'm guessing that we're going to end up with more books and toys in a few months for her birthday and Christmas, so maybe that shelf won't serve the purpose I'm planning for it! The three baskets of toys were because I wanted to be able to limit the number of toys she has to play with so she doesn't get bored with all of them at once. So right now we're on basket number one, which has a book of pictures, a rattle thing, her drum and drumstick, the ONLY battery operated little toy we have (a butterfly), and a pull 'n' play musical dog thing. We also have a ball wandering around the house at the moment, which will be shelved along with those five items. The next basket has cloth blocks, plastic links, and a few other things, and we'll get her Fisher Price books back out with those. The final basket has a cloth book, a rattle bear thingy, a few other things, and we'll get the alphabet blocks out again with that one. It's really helped to cut down on the amount of mess she is able to make, and she plays with one item much longer than she was when they were all available to her!
Rebecca has recently started doing a lot more standing on her own. I was actually sitting on the floor with her a couple of days ago, and she stood up holding on to me, and then all of a sudden I realized she'd let go and was still standing there beside me! What a proud look she had on her face! She got all excited when I got excited though, and sat down since she lost her balance, lol. :-) She's done it at least a few times since then as well, so I'm just waiting for her to figure out how to take that first step. She doesn't like to walk holding on to anyone's hands, so I suspect she's going to be a rather independent little one. She prefers to be held or carried if you're going to touch her, but if she's going places she's constantly on her feet, stretching "just one more inch" to reach that next sturdy piece of furniture.
We have thus far gotten two pumpkins off our pumpkin plant that decided to grow out of the compost. The vine is nearly half the length of our fence and is still growing and flowering!! There is at least one more pumpkin almost ready to come off it, and I don't know if there are going to be anymore, as Justin and I haven't checked recently! I'll have to make a pumpkin pie... or maybe just mash the pumpkin and we'll eat it like squash. :-) Rebecca's been thoroughly enjoying a large variety of new foods in the last few weeks, her favourites being watermelon and cucumber. I normally don't peel food for her, but I think the cucumber skins are just a little too thick and stiff for her to do much with. Anyway, she's also tried broccoli (which she loves, so long as it is whole, not mashed up!), chicken, oatmeal, and peaches. I have still yet to find something she really will not eat, though she wasn't too thrilled by the idea of actually eating green beans... she seemed to think they were more interesting to squeeze and make the little beans pop out of the pods!
We've been having a lot of thunderstorms here lately, Justin says it's approximately every other day (though it's a lot more often than that this week) we've been having them! We lost power to one last week for about 1/2 an hour in all... and I'm currently listening to the rain and thunder of another one. *sigh* It wouldn't be so bad if the storms would just kind of skirt around us, so all we got was the thunder and rain, but most times it's right over top of us, and going out in that is not particularly safe at all. Of course, I suppose I should find Rebecca a rain suit of some sort before taking her out in the rain as well, but I figure we have enough clothing that we can always change her when we get back home! :-)
And, I believe that's about all that's happening. It's been a rather quiet couple of weeks. :-)
