smelling the flowers

Out walking in front of our house...her new thing is holding our hands.  I love it.

Smelling the flowers my husband bought for me for our yard - an early anniversary present.  

She's very serious about the smelling...

Just too funny!

Plth!

Every time our girl asks me for something, such as milk, with a sign or a point or whatever else, I say "You want some milk?"  She responds with a head nod and I say "Yes, please?"  It's my hope that she'll learn her manners and know to say "please" when asking for things.  Today was my prize.  She responded, "plth."  Very cute!  Really, I almost cried.  

summer fun

Fun in the sprinkler!  She threw her bunny in first.  That's what she does when she's not sure about something - send bunny in to see if he makes it.  Hilarious!  

Just like everything else - it goes in the mouth.

Playing in the sandbox by herself like a big kid!

Just making faces at me from her crib.  What a sweet girl we have...

Sandbox!

Charles built a beautiful sandbox for Elsie and she loves it.  Actually, we all do...  We captured pictures of her first time in and I thought I'd share.  (And yes, it has a lid!)

Untouched, perfectly manicured sand, waiting for Elsie!

She needed a little convincing at first.

Ah, but took to it right away and wanted to share!

Content child.  Nothing better.

Playin' in the water

We don't yet have a kiddie pool for our girl, so Elsie's gramma improvised with sand toys.  What fun they had.  Nothing was dry when Elsie was finished!

Zoo!

We took Elsie to the Cougar Mountain Zoo today for her first zoo visit!  It was a bit cold at first but we had a blast and Elsie loved it.  She decided early on that she'd really prefer to walk rather than ride in the stroller.  She saw the reindeer first, pointed and said "woof, woof, woof."  Then the cougar: "woof, woof, woof."  (There's a theme here.)  Then the lemurs, "woof, woof, woof."  But of all the things at the zoo, she liked the rocks the best!  

And after the park......

.......she waters the flowers (or thinks that's what she's doing).