March Fun!

We went to the Orlando Science Center. There is a photo of Melia and Daddy clapping into the echo tube. She learned that you can hear the ocean in a sea shell...so now every time she picks up a sea shell (even if it's not the type you can hear anything) she puts it to hear ear and listens. They also had fun racing cars.

Dipper video - She has a dipper obsession. Anything she can dip things in. Ketchup is a favorite. She will eat it with a spoon. When we order pizza...she still gets her own dipper. And she does love her salsa.



She loves her sidewalk chalk!! There is literally chalk on EVERYTHING on the patio. You can't even see their table or the little slide...it's all pink/purple/blue. The walls, the floor, the screens in the windows. In these pictures it was even all over her face.



They spend a lot of their time playing at the park and having picnics. Here are a few at the park in our neighborhood.



Melia is very whiny! Of course she knows what it is because when Cameron cries she still points and says "whiner". We were riding in the car. She starts whining from the backseat  saying, "Mommy, I'm whining". Now if we can just get her to stop doing it!

A funny Melia story - At dinner one night, Melia started singing a song. We weren't quite sure what she was saying. Cameron started giggling. He easily translated for us. He started singing, "I wish, I wish, Melia was gone". She joined right in, belting it out. Come to find out, Cameron had made up that song and taught it to her. After being told it wasn't nice to sing a song like that, he decided to teach her a new version.

Then some other random shots.

Melia counts to 10 - And Does the Curly Shuffle!

Melia has been able to count to 10 for a while now. We just never got it on video. In this one she was a little distracted looking at pictures on the phone. Then she broke out in song from one of her DVD's (9, 10, numbers are our friends...let's count them all again).



Here is a video of her learning to play catch...and doing the Curly Shuffle. For those of you that know or watched the 3 Stooges...you'd think Melia was a huge fan. She does it all the time!!

Fun in February

We did Disney...again! It's definitely the place we spend most of our free time. This trip was just me and the kids alone. It was really busy so we occupied our time on quick rides with no lines (very few of these). We rode the carousel for the first time there. Melia loved it! We spun around in the tea cups...Cameron was spinning us so fast. Melia just giggled. And we bought some balloons...that were seriously still floating 2 months later!!



Melia loves wearing hats! And she has gotten more use out of Cameron's old bouncy horse than he ever did.



They still adore their bath times together. Especially a "boo boo bath" as Melia calls a bubble bath.



A few Melia stories to go with all her pictures.

• Haley took the kids to the park. They saw a lady walking a German Shepherd. Melia started pointing & screaming "Cow! Cow! Cow!".
• She colors on EVERYTHING with sidwalk chalk! The first picture is her sitting in a box they like to play in out on the patio. She has chalk all over the box, wall, chair beside it...and the innocent look of "what happened".
• She loves Cameron's big boy bed! So much so that I've had times I would love to get out the toddler bed and try it out with her. Just not sure we can put her to bed at night in it yet.
• She does love wearing stuff in her hair now...sometimes everything she owns all at the same time.
• She loves a "dipper". I have been trying and trying and trying to get a video of her. When she has something she can dip (a breadstick, a chicken nugget, french fries, etc.) she will start saying "dipper, dipper, dipper" over and over. It sounds a little like "deeper". Loses her mind until she has something to dip in. And of course she just licks it off and re-dips. This is the reason she gets her own bowl of salsa when we go to a mexican restaurant (she oves her salsa).
• She has started saying "Morning" when she wakes up. She gets such a kick out of us saying it back that she now says it every time she wakes up and we walk into her room (regardless of time of day)...and will periodically throw it out. She's very proud of herself when she figures out those little phrases everyone else is using.
• Melia has learned the word "whiner". Every time she sees Cameron (or anyone) crying. She will point and say "whiner...whiner...whiner". She really only means it as "look, he's crying" but it sounds like she is poking fun. It is hysterical.

They love playing in the rain together. Our patio gathers little puddles all over. They like to run through them, splash, and even bend down to put their hair in it. Such cheap entertainment.




She loves to sing songs! She recently discovered Cameron's old nursery rhymes DVD. It was always his favorite, and is quickly becoming one of hers. She will sit through the entire thing and attempt to sing along. Here is a video of her trying to sing her ABC's.



She has also learned to say come here when she wants us to follow her or do something. She will wave her little hand and scream "Came Here". This video is the only one I've been able to get...and she only said it one time with prompting.