Bubbles!

Having realized that children who can whistle can probably also blow bubbles, I taught Rebecca how to use a bubble wand and blow bubbles. She does quite well with it, though she tends to get the wand too close to her lips and ends up with soap on or in her mouth. It doesn't seem to stop her though, and I figure eventually she'll figure out how to make bubbles without touching her lips.

We got her a little no-spill bubble bucket, so that I didn't have to hold the bottle all the time. I was a little concerned about whether she'd be able to fit the wands into the slots, but she did it just fine. Those buckets are a wonderful investment for anyone with little people-- Rebecca literally turned it upside down and shook it and nothing (except the wands) came out!

She really gets a kick out of being able to make bubbles herself. :)

Spring Party

Rebecca has taken a liking to stickers lately, and she just happened to find this sheet of coloured dots sitting in our front yard one afternoon last week. :)



Justin's work had a Spring Party for the kids, so we took Rebecca to it. She completely fell in love with glitter. I'm not planning on getting any for at least another year or two! What a mess!! She figured out how to pour it and if she could have figured out how to get glue out, I'm sure she would have been gluing and glittering all by herself!

I found the letters for her name, she stuck them on... hence the fact her name is apparently Rebceca instead of Rebecca. :) She followed instructions on order until we got to the C's... :)

Glitter on her hands!

Juice break

A basket hat...? Interesting use for a basket!

Visiting with the Spring Bunny. She was convinced to go to him using the little frog in her left hand, and when she sat with him, they gave her her own little bunny to take home... the only thing was, she wanted to take the frog home and leave them with the bunny! It took a few minutes to convince her to leave the frog behind!

And then everyone headed out for an egg hunt. :) It was quite successful, and they had made a separate hunting area for the 0-3 year olds, so they got the chance to pick up their own eggs. It was quite a successful practice/learning run for Rebecca, as she did a hunt this afternoon as well, and needed no prompting to pick up the eggs and place them in the basket. :)

Signing Time!

No, we don't use the Signing Time DVD's, but we do spend time doing ASL practise every day. Rebecca has a nice little vocabulary of signs, and I was told by the instructor of the ASL class I attend that she is doing extremely well with signing, both for her age in general and more especially for a hearing child of her age. She told me to keep up the good work, and said that it doesn't matter if she doesn't sign things properly, because just like with a spoken language where there are easy and hard words, ASL has easy and hard signs. Just keep signing the correct way to her, and eventually she'll change her 'baby' sign for the correct ones.

So... I thought I would show you all some of Rebecca's signs. :)



In addition to the ones on this video she also knows: more, hat, shoes, ball, banana, bath, bed (which she refuses to do because she doesn't like going to bed, lol), and a whole pile of others that currently escape my mind!

Rain, rain, and more rain!

Virginia has two rainy seasons, and two (relatively) dry seasons. The spring and fall seasons tend to be very wet, while winter and summer are relatively dry. What 'dry' means is usually that it rains only once a week instead of all but one day a week! My sister sent a pair of rainboots for Rebecca to be able to play outside in the rain and puddles, and so I took advantage of a rainy day between showers, and got some pictures of Rebecca playing in her new boots! She just loves to go splashing in the puddles, and I'm sure she would spend her days doing so if I would let her!

This is the neighbour's bridge across the ditch, not our house.

She wants to be like Daddy...

It seems no matter what Justin is working on lately, Rebecca thinks she should be assisting him! He rotated his tires at the end of February, and she toddled along after him trying to help every chance she got.


She helped with the jacks...


and thought she should help with the lug wrench as well. :)

Justin will get up with Rebecca to let her play for a little while in the morning while I get a little more sleep. This is usually because she wakes me up at least once through the night still, but lately because I have a cough that occasionally wakes me through the night as well, so I'm definitely not well rested by the time Rebecca gets up at 6 or so in the morning!





Justin tells me that she was pretending to eat something out of his hand. She loves to play pretend games, and does it regularly with both of us through the day. :)


I've decided we must be making use of screwdrivers just a little too much lately. She decided her dolly needed an operation that only a screwdriver could care for!




And... when the dolly was finished, the operating table apparently needed some work as well! :)

Random pictures

These pictures are spanning mostly February, I believe. I don't recall exactly, and don't feel like looking it up at the moment, lol! They're getting much closer to being 'current' pictures though. :)

Rebecca is a rock collector. When we go outside, she always picks up rocks she likes and will bring them to me to hold on to. I'm just waiting for her to figure out how to use her pockets, and then I'll have to remember to check her pockets every time I do laundry!

Rebecca also likes to throw rocks into puddles to see them make splashes.


This is a picture of ice. It's what happens when my garden is wet and then things freeze quickly enough that the ice makes the dirt 'grow' right out of the ground! It's kinda neat to see. :)


Putting shoes on. She's actually becoming quite successful, though she generally puts the wrong shoe on each foot. Just happens she's got the right shoe for the foot in this picture!


She did a bit of a face plant into a patch of mud. She wasn't too happy about it, but she did put on a little smile for me anyway. We had a very early bath that day!





She likes to lie on that shelf (we don't encourage this!) and play with her puzzles!



I can't remember if I've shown a picture of this before or not. Rebecca believes the place to be when she 'reads' to herself is in the book bin... good thing they're all board books in there!!

And... I just thought this was a sweet picture... notice the little tear in her eye...? :)