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Purple Locomotives
 In the month of June, Purple Locomotives have shown an increasing interest in blowing, popping, and catching bubbles. To extend on their interest in bubbles we decided to make our own bubbles. The toddlers were excited to see how their mixture of bubbles worked like our other bubbles.
     In the month of July, Purple Locomotives will be working on our self help skills. We will be practicing hand-washing, blowing our noses, using utensils, drinking without lids, pulling up our own pants, and put-ting on and taking off our shoes.

Giving animals a bath to practice hygiene

Cleaning our own spilled milk

Listening to "Seals on a Bus" while pretending to be on a bus

Where the Wild Things Are

Stopping to Smell the Flowers

Twinkle Twinkle

Fresh from a bath, zipped up in your little one piece jammies and hairs all combed perfectly soft and silky.  You smell fresh, and your skin is oh so soft.  You grab hold of your pink puppy lovie and the white lamb and then we sit down in the blue rocking chair that has served us so well since you arrived and pull out some books.  Occasionally there is a "night night BaBa", who lays down outside your room.

I pull out "Pajama Time" and "The Going to Bed Book", "Barnyard Dance" and we read them each one by one.  At the beginning of Barynard Dance, you stomp your feet and clap your hands just as the books says and then every page that has some yellow on it is accompanied by an excited "is lelloow!"  You've started expanding your book repertoire, so now we make it through "You are My I Love You" and "Snuggle Puppy" and "If you Give a Mouse a Cookie" and then it is time to sing.

We move on to Twinkle Twinkle standard and then I change the verses with my own version of what seems to fit, sometimes rhyming but often not.  We sing "night night mommy, night night daddy, night night baba, night night squeaky" and lately you have been humming along to the tune and interjecting your own babbles.  Often the singing part is when you curl up with your lovies on my shoulder, but occasionally you will look right up at me and sometimes there is even some whispering back and forth.  Everything else in the world just fades away in those moments... It is just you and me, and a room filled with the most peace and love I've ever known.

Little Fish

Our family membership criteria is small, but lover of the pool and Mexican are pretty much #1 and #2... And HG is officially master of both!  Hunt took her Saturday morning while I got my hair done and spent several hours with some of the other neighbrohood mommies and their toddlers (cute!), and Harper was totally into it.  She continued to talk about the pouolll all Sunday morning, so we grabbed some Starbucks and enjoyed an exceptionally wonderful family morning poolside with some of our neighborhood friends.  Naturally, my little fish is all about kicking herself while in her innertube and trying to blow bubbles, and it was awesome to see how comfortable she is getting in the water on her own.  Super fun day- especially since there is nowhere else Hunt and I would rather be in the summer than at the pool.  Clearly, the concept of pool snacks is also part of the appeal...



Make Way for Ducklings

The "Where are we going, and why am I carrying this bag of bread??" face... Aka the "meeehhr" face

Oooh, this might be fun afterall.... Checking out the fish

Look who we found!

Looking for the duck who got away

   

Happy toddler