Yesterday, Natalie decided that her and Baby Natalie (her doll) were going to make me a chocolate-birthday cake (no, it's not my birthday). Here's her recipe:
- One small plastic cup filled with (imaginary) sunscreen
- Water from the faucet in her kitchen
- One purple pom-pom
- One white pom-pom
- One red ball-pit-ball
- One yellow ball-pit-ball
Put the first four ingredients on a blue plastic plate. Put the ball-pit-balls in a colander and a serving dish from her kitchen. Bake it in her dishwasher. Put it in the kitchen cabinet above her fridge to cool it down. Then top with green frosting (a green ball-pit-ball).
Let me tell you, it was very, very yummy!
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Sunday, May 10, 2009
A Happy Mother's Day
This morning, Natalie and I shared a great time over breakfast. We talked about all the things outside the window and all the fun things we wanted to do today, and we watched Sesame Street together.
We played around in the basement, just running around being all goofy and silly. We played music and danced around. We ran around the little half-glass-wall in the middle of the room, playing peek-a-boo and making silly faces.
We made necklaces, both out of yarn and pasta and of the more edible variety.
We made cupcakes, and we put frosting on them and as many different kinds of sprinkles as we could find in the house.
We played around in the basement, just running around being all goofy and silly. We played music and danced around. We ran around the little half-glass-wall in the middle of the room, playing peek-a-boo and making silly faces.
We made necklaces, both out of yarn and pasta and of the more edible variety.
We made cupcakes, and we put frosting on them and as many different kinds of sprinkles as we could find in the house.
Natalie and I watched her favorite "movie" about the Fisher Price "Little People".
Right now Natalie is napping, and I get a chance to blog about my beautiful little girl.
I can't imagine a better way to spend Mother's Day.
Friday, May 1, 2009
Natalie and Baby
Natalie's best friend Aubriella has a new baby brother. Last weekend, Aubriella came over for a playdate, and she brought her baby brother (and her parents, too of course). And of course, we all had a great time.
Natalie was so proud that she got to hold Baby Brayden. She was very careful and gentle, and she even sang the ABC song to him:
Friday, April 24, 2009
Reflections
Lately, I've been seeing a lot of my own words and actions reflected in Natalie. It is sometimes quite eerie, how she copies my behaviors.
Mostly, it's little sayings I didn't even know I used until I hear them repeated. The other day, I was insisting that she wore socks and then shoes, not shoes and then socks, and she was mad at me. All why crying very loudly, she kept saying "No, Mommy, No. That is not acceptable!" I was trying not to smile too much, because 1) it sounded really cute, especially how she pronounced ap-cip-table, and 2) she was trying to show independence, and 3) at least she wasn't repeating any swear-words...
Other sayings she's quite fond of include "We will see", which I recently realized I use when I don't quite want to promise her something but there is a good chance it will happen (like when she's telling me on the way home in the car that she wants chocolate milk for dinner).
She also likes "That could be", which is one of my standard responses when she tells me something important, like where the airplane we just saw in the sky was flying to (sidebar: It usually flies to Grandma's).
Then, there are things I just hope she's copying me on, like when she says ""thank you" and "you're welcome", etc. And the other night, she told me that her "baby" (doll) was scared, and she put her blankies on her shoulder and held the baby tight, cuddling it on her shoulder and saying "shh, shh". I was so proud of her, and her compassion and ability to comfort. I hope just a tiny bit of that is a reflection of me, too.
Mostly, it's little sayings I didn't even know I used until I hear them repeated. The other day, I was insisting that she wore socks and then shoes, not shoes and then socks, and she was mad at me. All why crying very loudly, she kept saying "No, Mommy, No. That is not acceptable!" I was trying not to smile too much, because 1) it sounded really cute, especially how she pronounced ap-cip-table, and 2) she was trying to show independence, and 3) at least she wasn't repeating any swear-words...
Other sayings she's quite fond of include "We will see", which I recently realized I use when I don't quite want to promise her something but there is a good chance it will happen (like when she's telling me on the way home in the car that she wants chocolate milk for dinner).
She also likes "That could be", which is one of my standard responses when she tells me something important, like where the airplane we just saw in the sky was flying to (sidebar: It usually flies to Grandma's).
Then, there are things I just hope she's copying me on, like when she says ""thank you" and "you're welcome", etc. And the other night, she told me that her "baby" (doll) was scared, and she put her blankies on her shoulder and held the baby tight, cuddling it on her shoulder and saying "shh, shh". I was so proud of her, and her compassion and ability to comfort. I hope just a tiny bit of that is a reflection of me, too.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Slushy
The other morning, the weather was really ucky around here. On the way to daycare, Karsten was telling Natalie that it wasn't quite rain and it wasn't quite snow, it was kinda slush. Natalie apparently had a hard time with that word. So when they got to daycare and got out of the car, she told Karsten "It's raining snow!"
What a perfect explanation!
What a perfect explanation!
Monday, April 20, 2009
Snack time
The other day when we came home from daycare Natalie was really hungry. She really wanted the bananapuffs she saw on the kitchen counter. I gave her the box and went to take my jacket off, etc., planning to get her situated in her chair with the snack as soon as I had my hands free. When I came back in the kitchen, here's what I found:
Natalie sitting so nicely, eating like such a big girl.
And the box even came with a built in plate (the lid)!
Natalie sitting so nicely, eating like such a big girl.
And the box even came with a built in plate (the lid)!Sunday, April 19, 2009
Behold the mighty Baby-Daddy
Natalie has three dolls and since the are small like babies she has named them Baby-Mommy, Baby-Natalie and Baby-Daddy.
One evening she was dressing up Baby-Daddy. For some reason he needed to use Natalie's clothes: a shiny belt, socks and Natalie's new shoes, which were big enough to hold him standing upright.
On this picture it looks like he is ready to take over the world one footprint at a time.
One evening she was dressing up Baby-Daddy. For some reason he needed to use Natalie's clothes: a shiny belt, socks and Natalie's new shoes, which were big enough to hold him standing upright.
On this picture it looks like he is ready to take over the world one footprint at a time.
Behold my mighty (stinky) feet.
Although with the shiny belt maybe he is a pop-star.
Although with the shiny belt maybe he is a pop-star.
Jacko is retiring - behold the next big icon - Baby-Daddy
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