Artist at Work

Mom got me my first set of watercolor and I've enjoyed them almost everyday since! We have masterpieces all over the house and we're going through paper like crazy. Mom, Dad, and my Papa have even gotten in on the fun.

Wonderscope

Yesterday, mom took me to one of the Children's Museums in Kansas City, Wonderscope. On the way there I sang, "Wonderscope, Telescope" which mom thought was very cute, even though our ride was 40 minutes. They had so many fun things to explore there. Here are a few of my favorites.

My favorite room by far was the raceways room. It had all sort of ramps to roll golf balls down. It was like a roller coaster room for golf balls. I really enjoyed watching the ball roll go round and round.

I loved getting the golf balls out of the big, blue bucket and getting to walk around with my own small bucket.



Here I am at the round and round station. Mom helped me with the ramp. I really got the hang of this one!




Here's the art room. We didn't stay here long. WHo wants to sit when there is so much to explore!



The garden room was a hit as well. I liked the gardening part and planting fake flowers. But I really loved checking out the real, live turtle they had. I love animals, all kinds!

Easter

Mom had a wide array of activities planned for me the weekend of Easter. We colored eggs, we made Easter theme cookies, and then of course we had the Easter basket hunt before church on Easter morning. We all hope that you had a blessed and joyous Easter!

Ooh. Listen, I here something fizzing.



The colors are so pretty!



I even got to "fish" the eggs into and out of the water.






Flour from head to toe!



Literally, check out that cute foot.



I love to roll dough, so mom's been making cookie dough and bread dough a lot for me. I'm becoming a real expert.



I love pushing the cookie cutters into the dough. But my favorite thing is to eat the scraps. Mom has to regulate my cookie dough intake, this was her favorite thing as a kid too.



Mom and I had so much fun.

Spent!

After a hard day at the playground, I came home and finally laid down to rest. I was so tired, mom had to wake me up to go to Good Friday service.

Mr. Mitts and March Madness

Gone are the days of old-fashioned bubbles, I guess. We found Mr. Mitts deeply discounted and mom thought we would give it a try since I have a tendency to get old-fashioned bubbles as much on my lips as I do in the air. (I am getting better though, and my bubble blowing efforts sure bring a smile to mom's face.) But when all else fails, Mr. Mitts helps me out and I love him!



After blowing all of those bubbles, thousands....I was excited to spend some time with dad watching basketball. I love saying "I play basketball." So here we are watching the first round of March Madness together. Mom thought this was a very sweet moment.

World's Greatest Hobby

Today we went to the largest train show in the midwest. It's a touring train show called, The World's Greatest Hobby on Tour." Mom and dad both came and we had so much fun watching all of the model trains go round and round.

While we were there, I learned how to blow a whistle. I have a small yellow plastic whistle led to a real wooden train whistle and I've been choo-chooing ever since with both.





I also got to ride a miniature train with dad. We had so much fun waving to mom and chugging along with the conductor.

New Friend

Yesterday, I went on a play date to my new friend Kennedi's house. She has a great play set out back, a yellow lab named Abby, and a ton of toys I had never seen before. The weather was a balmy 70 and I had so much fun. Here are a few pictures of me and my new friend!

Here we are waiting for some bubbles. There was a bit of a breeze in the air and we had a lot of fun chasing after those floating spheres.



"I'm running, I'm running." I've turned into quite the athlete and love running. Mom is hoping I have some interest in marathons like she does.



Here we are taking turns blowing bubbles on our own. I'm not quite sure if either of us really mastered this skill yet. Oh well, we have all summer.



Here I am with Abby. I wasn't to sure at first, she's a licker. But we definitely warmed up to each other by the end of the morning.



We ended the day with lunch together.

Grow a Duck?

Well, our rubber ducky that indicates if the water is hot is broken. Ainsley reminds us of this at each "bath tub party" not only with the broken duck line but also by saying the water is "too hot", even when we know it is not. So, in an effort to get her a new duck (not with the same functional purpose), I found this grow a duck toy. When purchasing this toy, I did not take into account the patience level it would require nor the fact that Ainsley would enjoy playing in her man-made duck pond more than anything.



Has it grown yet? Watching the duck grow, very slowly - 10 days, for a 2 year old is definitely a stretch. So, we play in the duck pond and take the duck to the bath tub even though it is not full grown.



Regardless, we have had some fun with it. Even better, we can do it over and over again if we just let the duck dry out. Hopefully, he'll always have a pond. I wonder just how big this duck can get.

Say Cheese

Yes, it's finally happened. When mom says "Say Cheese" I'm truly a cheese. Getting a true smile on camera now a days has been somewhat of a challenge. We'll keep working on it though.

Here I am with play-doh. A not so favorite past-time of my Gigi's but mom still let's me play with it anyway. I make trains and dog's with the moldable clay. Mom always says it's a masterpiece, even if she doesn't quite see it.



And here I am reading with my Papa. My favorite books right now are Dr. Suess books. I have quite a few and like them all. Right now, my favorite books are Mr. Brown can Moo can You? and Green Eggs and Ham.