Shouldn't quite make it...

Looking thru my pictures and videos on my camera, I came across a couple of things that really aren't quite blog-quality. But I like them so much that I'll post them anyway...

This video is really too short, but Natalie kept going for the camera... This brings new meaning to dancing the night away!

Here's another one I just had to post. The lighting may be bad, but it can't hide the light in her eyes!

Icecream - a very special treat!

The doll house

After Natalie was such a big helper with putting the baby toys away, we thought we'd take her shopping at the (used) toy store for a big-girl toy. She got a new doll house:

"Hmm, I wonder who lives in here..."

A few nights later, I told Natalie to go play with the new doll house while I was cleaning up after dinner. Pretty soon, she was calling me, in that tone that says that she's up to something and she wants to show me. When I came in to her play area, she was standing like this, laughing, and with her hands thru the windows of the top part of the doll house:
And she was saying "Mommy, lookit, mommy, I'm in the doll house!"

My Daddy!

Hi everyone,

Natalie here. I borrowed Mommy and Daddy's blogspace to tell you a little about my Daddy. I can tell my Daddy everything, like how big the train at the train museum is:

Look Daddy!

My Daddy holds me when I'm a little scared on the loud train ride.

My Daddy builds me things - and he let's me help him all the time!

And sometimes, we just hang out together. I really like that!

Happy Father's Day!

Natalie

Such a big girl

Last weekend, we finally put Natalie's last baby toys away, like her music table and her excersaucer. Though she did still play with them once in a while, she was really getting too big for them, and they were cluttering up the place a bit much.

Natalie did great with it. She helped pack the items up and put them in the basement. She helped take the batteries out. We used a real screwdriver to open the toys so we could take the batteries out, and I tought her to go "leftie loosie" and "righty tighty". She must have said "leftie loosie" at least a hundred times while she was working with the screwdriver - she's the daughter of two geeks, after all...

It was kinda weird to see these things go. I remember how much she loved them when she was a baby. But she is definitely not a baby anymore, and that's okay too. She's grown into such a little person, so full of personality. And so much fun to be around.

But still, sometimes I wonder how it happened so fast...

How did this little sweetheart:

Turn into this adorable, sassy little person:

Breakfast at the farm

Today, a nearby farm had an event called breakfast on the farm:

Yummi!

Natalie had a chance to see a baby cow up close. She didn't really want to pet it, though, and who can blame her - after all it was about as big as her:"I'll stay here with Mommy, just to be safe..."

We had so much fun. There was music, and lots of animals to look at (goats, alpacas, ponies, and lots of big, big cows). And there were some ultra-light airplanes flying over the parking lot. And Natalie got at (fake) tatoo - she chose a smily face, which looked super cute! And there were a lot of old tractors. Natalie got to ride many of them:

Vroom, vroom, here comes Natalie!

Of course, at a dairy promotion event, there also had to be icecream - Natalie chose the blue one:

I hope it's the blue icecream, she's a little young for blue lipstick and eyeshadow just yet!

Puddles...

There's nothing better than a pair of rubber boots and a big puddle:

Natalie's beloved yellow rain boots were getting way too small, so guess who just got a new pair of (orange) boots:

A preview of the teenage years?

Just lounging, watching TV...