Thursday, August 26, 2010

May 2010

May was a busy month, with a visit from Grandma Lois and Papa Misha, a tour of our local fire station, and our first family camping trip!

Here's a neat shot of Rosa in her Ikea tunnel (one of best purchases ever!), taken by Papa Misha.

Grandma Lois got to pick Rosa up after naptime and get some cuddles while Rosa was still drowsy.

Rosa has loved building towers for a long time now. She had Papa Misha working hard too - here's one of his creations.

Grandma Lois spent some quality time at the playground with Rosa

We took Grandma and Papa to an art class. Rosa's favorite thing to paint was always her hands!

But she did some painting on the paper too.

Here is the final product of that class - what a cool hat! Mommy glued the flower and ribbon on.

Rosa loved brushing the goats at the zoo.

A little music session with Grandma and Papa!

One of the neighborhood moms organized a tour of the local fire station - what a treat! All 2-year-olds, whether boy or girl, are obsessed with fire trucks it seems!

Rosa got to sit in the fire truck and ring the bell!

She and daddy are the new fire truck mascots.

Rosa got to slide down the pole. She talked about the man sliding down the pole literally for months (she still asks for songs about this).

The same neighborhood mom who organized the fire station tour organized a 4-family camping trip (she's organized!). What a blast! It was so nice to be there with 3 other families - it was actually relaxing! And the kids loved having their buddies there.

Rosa liked climbing on the logs and is totally fearless about bugs (wants to pick them all up). Paxton takes a more scientific approach with his magnifying glass.

The kids mostly played nicely!

This was Rosa's first experience with tents. When we arrived at the campground she looked around her with wonder and pointed out all the umbrellas in the trees. We told her those were called "tents." When we set up our tent, she was so excited to get in it with us, but got all freaked out whenever I tried to zip up the door. This could be a problem! But eventually I just held her back from scrambling out and zipped it quick, and after that, she magically got over it. Phew! The first night she didn't sleep so well (lots of squirming and early waking), but the second night she slept until something like 7:30 the next morning!

Paxton's mom and dad brought a little inflatable boat, which was super relaxing and fun to take out for spins on the lake.
One of the other families brought their two doggies (and you think your car is crowded going camping, you should have seen theirs with a car seat and two decent-sized dogs in the back seat!). Rosa loved hugging them!


More cute videos - Daddy introduced Rosa to the joys of building forts and tents out the couch pillows and blankets.

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