Dress Up

I have visions of P having a big dress up box full of lots of costumes to pretend in.  She's still a little young, and not totally interested, so we're starting slowly.  She mostly has a collection of headpieces that I find in dollar bins at Target or Joann Fabrics.  The funniest is when she dresses herself.  I'm still trying to get pictures of everything.  She's got a cute frog hat and flower hat that I don't have pictures of.

Notice the two crowns--the silver one is sideways.

Sometimes crowns double as poker visors:

Today I made her a tutu (bought a kit), which she loves because it has "iel" on it...that would be Ariel.

When I first put it on her she wanted to do nothing but stand in front of the mirror and dance.

Easter 2013

For Easter we made a quick weekend trip down to Lincoln.  It was fun to have a big family dinner and let her play with the cousins.  She's getting much more used to the crowds at my parents' house, and even likes to play with the cousins.  I even caught her hugging them of her own volition.

 Penelope is perfecting her "cheese" smile, which is even cuter with her new Easter dress:

Since it was a warm 60-70 degrees in Lincoln with no snow (aka nothing like in Wisconsin), we set out some eggs in my parents' backyard for P to find.  She tried to open almost every egg right after she picked them up.

I'm pretty sure she said "bird" here, because she just picked up an Angry Birds egg.

"Ooooh, an egg, right in the middle of the grass, easy to find.  Thanks, Dad!" 

Whenever P says egg, if I'm not paying attention it takes me a minute to figure out what she's saying.  That's because for almost every word that starts with a vowel she adds either a "y" or an "l" sound in front of the word, making egg sound like either "yegg" or "l'egg".  (She doesn't say leg, more like a French "le egg")