Spiderkids

Last weekend Samuel thought it would be fun to wear his Spiderman costume, and for Becca to wear the baby spiderman costume (Samuel wore this the Halloween he was 1.) He kept calling Becca his sidekick. Becca does not look like being a sidekick is her idea of fun.










Flashback: Here is Samuel wearing the baby spiderman costume back in 2006:

11 months old

Becca is 11 months old now. Here are 2 pictures of her with the bear:

It was pretty much impossible to get a picture where she was 1) sitting still, 2) looking at the camera, and 3) not trying to eat the paper with the 11 on it.

Her walking is getting better each day. She hardly crawls anywhere anymore. And, as evidenced by my last post, she is into everything.

She wants to do everything Samuel does. Here they are hanging out in baskets:

She tries any and all food that I give her, and if I try to eat something myself without giving her a bite, she makes a "uh, uh, uh" noise and points at my food until I share.

Favorite activities at the moment include: putting objects into containers and taking them out again, getting in the cozy coupe car and beeping the horn, trying her best to get to Bella's water dish if I don't move it in time, and walking around the house exploring. She also loves to be outside. We have a baby swing on our swingset, but she doesn't want to go in that anymore. She wants to go on a big swing just like Samuel. I put her in the sandbox yesterday for the first time and she really liked that (except that she kept trying to eat the sand.)

I can't believe she is going to be 1 in just a few weeks. This year has gone by so quickly!

Pleased to Meet You

The pantry meets Becca:



The laundry meets Becca:



A box of Kleenex meets Becca:



The fridge meets Becca:



Some butter meets Becca:

It appears she and the butter are on quite familiar terms and would be happy to meet again next time I neglect to remove it from her reach in the fridge.

Preschooler

Last week we went to visit Samuel's preschool classroom and meet his teachers. He was a little nervous at first, but then he found some super cool magnetic building blocks, and then refused to look at anything else in the room since he was having so much fun playing with those. All weekend he talked about those blocks, and when I brought him into the classroom today, he asked the teacher about them right away.

Here he is last week building with the magnetic blocks:







And here he is this morning ready to go to the first day of school:



When I picked him up and asked about his day, he told me, "It was great! I ate applesauce, played outside, and got to play with the cool magnet blocks." It looks like preschool is going to be a lot of fun for him.