My little lady!

Today the kids where bopping around to some children's music and I remembered that I had this box of scarves in the basement from when I used to teach Head Start so I brought them out and did they ever have a blast with them. They twirled them, threw them up into the air and played peek a boo. In the picture Rose E is sitting with her legs crossed, I have just been getting a kick lately at that, my little lady! The past couple of days I have noticed that her legs and arms have grown and her face has thinned out too. All of her 12 month clothes are too small now and she is wearing 18-24 month outfits. Her new words today where "get" and "fox." Lately when I change her diaper I have been giving her either books to hold or pictures of things. When Walter was a baby I gathered a collection of pictures that I cut out from magazines, postcards and discovery cards that I put contact paper on and both kids sure have learned a lot of words from them during that time. When Rose E was a little baby I had made all kinds of black and white designs and pictures and she would just be mesmerized by staring at them but now it isn't good enough just to look, it definitely has to be hands on!
I got a little chuckle out of Walter's expression today after I got done vacuuming he pointed at the hose and said "why the dirtiness go down these pipes Mama?" Today after story hour too as soon as we got home I took him to the downstairs bathroom and as we where walking through the second living room (when this house was built they made two small parlors) he said "why we have two living rooms Mama?" He just thought it was the silliest thing. Everyday his thoughts are just blowing me away!