Stickers belly

Two sheets of heart stickers on a two-year-old's belly.

Another girl with fashion sense

This morning Alena tried on the swimsuit Grandma Dee bought for her a few weeks ago. I told her to go look in the mirror and when she got there I heard her give a satisfied "ooh!" Then she tried on her new pink dress and ran to the mirror with the same result. She even likes her pink sandals. She said "Thank you, Mama Dee," even though Grandma wasn't around to hear her. And she finally relented to putting on the purple night dress that Grandma Diane made for her. After she realized there was indeed some pink on it she thought it was very pretty. It is always good to have a second night dress around!

Cousin Lily needs to come over to play dress up soon!

Fun with a friend

Alena's friend Maren came over last week to play. It wasn't too warm, but we thought we could play outside for a little while because at least there was no snow. Yesterday it was finally nice in the evening, plus with daylight savings time (even though it makes for an exhausted morning) Alena and I had time to do a little gardening. She helped me take straw off of the strawberry plants. The neighbor was sitting on top of his camper and yelling at dogs. It was an entertaining night.

Alena has been working on making a toddler nest out of this bale of straw for awhile.

I put the girls to work scrubbing potatoes for lunch. They got a little wet.

Suppemental video

So Aunt Angela put pictures of the pizza making on her blog, so here is a supplemental video of the event. We also went to the zoo and the exciting Choo Choo Bobs, but we didn't manage to get any pictures with the monkeys or trains. We are glad we missed the next snow storm. There is way too much snow up there!