Monkey see monkey do!

I snapped a picture of my bare footed babe today, we have been keeping her socks off as much as possible the past few days because she has broken out on her ankles. At first I thought that I didn't rinse her soap off good enough during her last bath but now we suspect that she is allergic to the nylon spandex strip in her socks. Last night I put a pair of small socks on her so that they wouldn't irritate the broken out spot and lone behold she woke-up broken out in that spot too. So anyway, I am now on a mission for all cotton socks. I made a run to Pamida this evening and didn't find any, I'll have to do some more searching tomorrow. Speaking of allergies, I am suspecting some food allergies too. She has been breaking out in rashes on her belly and I think I have narrowed it down to milk and either whole grain oats or wheat. It has been hard coming-up with things that a baby with only two teeth can eat without those ingredients in them. I am hoping that she will eventually outgrow them. I am still nursing her and so far what I eat doesn't bother her. Thank goodness.
I took the kids to playgroup this morning. I had to chuckle because Rose E was stuck to me like glue after having a babysitter last night. At playgroup she found a wooden lacing card and carried it around the most of the time we where there. She has been into things with strings lately. Walter has this small magna doodle and it has turned into one of her favorite toys (you just never know what will entertain them)! She is a little monkey see monkey do lately! When we got back from playgroup she was rubbing her eyes and I said "Rose E are you tired?" She said "not tired!" Then I came downstairs where Walter was with Jeff and Jeff was asking Walter the same question and guess what he said "me not tired." Every day it is just blowing me away with what she understands! I found a cat stuffed animal for her to play with and said "what that?" She said "kitty." Then I saw our cat and I said "whose that?" She said "Chessie." What a little smarty!

I also added this picture of Walter outside today, a lot of our snow has melted and he was thrilled to get outside and play. Today we played some football I worked on teaching him how to catch the ball, he loved it. He was also very excited to play on his "playground." He said "mama playing on mine playground is fun." I had to laugh because I showed him how to climb up his rock wall and then I went down his slide and as I slid down he said "woo." Then I realized I had been saying that for him. We also had fun exploring the different buds on the trees and plants it will be fun for us to keep tabs of everything as it blooms.