January pictures and such

It's hard to believe it is already almost the middle of February! We've been rather busy this last month too... which is probably obvious considering the lack of posting on here!

Rebecca is starting to say a lot more words, though she still doesn't tend to use them to actually tell us what she wants. Perhaps she'll actually talk to us by the time she is two?! She comes out with sentences on occasion, and almost always made of words we've never heard her use before, which makes us think she will just start conversing with us in full sentence form one of these days, and then never stop talking.

I spent this morning making 'baby cookies' using various recipes my mum and I found online, because we're thinking perhaps Rebecca's daily meltdowns are due to a low blood sugar issue, since it is pretty consistently the same time of day every day. She loves the ones I've let her have, so I guess they're a success. I don't prefer them-- I like my cookies a little sweeter! I also made a 'chewy granola bar' recipe, which, while it tastes quite nice, isn't quite what I'm looking for still. I don't want it to have a cakey or cookie-ish texture, I want it to be fairly similar to the quaker chewy granola bars.

Rebecca has taken to playing with some much more grown up items than she used to... she really enjoys playing with things such as the paper animals pictured above, and the tea set pictured below.


We're honestly not quite sure where Rebecca learned to 'make tea', but she will use the teapot and pretend to pour tea into a cup, and then gets a spoon and stirs her cup of tea. :) Perhaps from watching my dad? Anyway, this is a super cool tea set, made by Green Toys, Inc., which is an entirely recycled plastics company! They use recycled milk cartons to make their toys, and they're really nice quality... and best of all, no batteries, and can work with water/juice in them. :)

I gave her a piece of paper with some glue on it, and a whole bunch of scraps of paper to play with. She spent about half an hour sticking the pieces on the paper and pulling them back off again.


Supposedly, toddlers like to play in Cool Whip, or whipped cream, or whatever is similar. Well... apparently my toddler is an exception to this, as all she did was literally sit there and eat the whole blob!

This is as 'played with' as it got!!

See? she demolished it!

The really big news of the last month is that we got a puppy. It is suspected that he is a full blooded beagle, as he has a number of birth... anomalies, shall we say? that would indicate some pretty severe inbreeding. He has five toes on his front paws, and six on the back... normally a dog would have only four on each! He also has a very cute little over bite. :) Rebecca really enjoys feeding him, and likes to carry him around every chance she gets as well. It's rather amusing, though we are really trying not to encourage her to be picking him up! At least he is quite small-- probably close to 3lbs right now. He was found under a dumpster at perhaps a week of age, in a pile of rotting junk, maggots, and roaches. Gross... but at least he's doing well now!

So... meet "Uh-Oh", the newest member of our household! :)