Will you help me find it?

Johanna is very interested in the concept of Birthdays. Her friend from the neighborhood and daycare, Jay Jay, had his birthday party today. A friend's son Willie who she likes had his birthday yesterday. We had a small celebration of my birthday last night. So naturally Johanna wanted to know about her birthday. After I told her it was in August, Johanna asked if I could help her find it. At a loss, I told her to go ask Daddy to help. I just needed to buy some time for a better answer and she forgot what she was going to ask Daddy for on the way to the other room. Thank goodness!

It's just too fast!

Little Kenneth is doing something at 2 months that older sister didn't do until she was 4 months old. I want my babies to slow down!

Mommy, I have enough

So, last Friday I got home from work and there was the need to take care of dinner, and babies, and still pay attention to Johanna. Well, I found a chapstick in a flavour I don't care for and since Johanna likes taking my chapsticks, I thought she might enjoy it. So I gave it to her and reassured her that it was her chapstick. She's been very good with using my chapstick properly and was very happy to have her own.

A few minutes later, she emerged from her playroom and handed me a mostly empty tube of chapstick and said "Mommy, I have enough". I replied "Why yes honey, you do have enough" as I looked at the little sweet images you can see in the attached pictures. That is in fact even chapstick on her neck. I was in fits of giggles over her chapsticking skills, and luckily it came off relatively easily without a major tantrum at bathtime.

I guess everyone has to learn at some point that two year olds will not behave the same way all the time and you shouldn't give them chapstick and then let them play relatively unsupervised with it!

The song that never ends

Johanna has turned "The Itsy Bitsy Spider" into a song that never ends.

The itsy bitsy spider climbed up the water spout
Down came the rain and washed the spider out
Out came the sun and dried up all the rain,
and the itsy bitsy spider climbed up the water spout
Down came the rain and washed the spider out...

It's lovely until she uses it as a bedtime stalling technique!

We're zooper!

Okay, I just needed to make another entry to add more zoo pictures.

More zoo mania

Sorry yesterday was so short. I was really tired for some reason after pushing a fully loaded stroller and periodically carrying a toddler. Yesterday I was very glad we have a zoo membership so there isn't the pressure to have a "perfect" zoo day. Johanna's favorite parts were the carousel, the splash river, and taking her first pony rides ever! We tried to entice her to look at animals, but with the notable exception of the penguins, she only wanted to look at ducks and water. Yep, can't see that anywhere but the zoo! She was temporarily placated by monkeys upon occasion. The penguin pictures are from an earlier zoo visit (pre-blog days) and the rest are from yesterday. Enjoy!

The Zoo!

Here are some videos of Johanna on the carousel!