Halloween Pictures

I know, it's April. Hopefully this isn't your first time seeing the Halloween pictures we took of Paige over the last 2 years. I was just playing around in my favorite ScrapBlog tool and couldn't help making one with their cool Halloween themes. The first two pages are from 2006 and the last 3 pages are 2007. She developed from a piggy to a princess! It'll be interesting to see what she is in 2008 now that the terrible twos are here.



In other news
A quick update on the house: Inspection was this week and either they had a lousy inspector or we are fantastic homeowners (I seem to think it's the latter). Anyway, the inspector found absolutely NO problems with our house! I really didn't think there would be anything major, but you know they can always nitpick if they want to. The appraisal was on Friday and we haven't heard any news on that yet. We're hoping no news is good news.

Twaddler transition

At Paige's daycare the next room up with the 2-3 year olds is called the Twaddler room. Even though she has a little over a month until she turns 2, daycare is anxious for her to move up. At first I wasn't crazy about the idea of her being the youngest kid in the classroom again, but it's starting to grow on me. She's gone in there twice already. Today she was there for about 2 hours and the teachers said she did great. They have the room divided, so most of the time it's only 2-2.5 yrs on one side and 2.5-3 yrs on the other side. But in the mornings and later in the day when there are less kids they combine all the kids onto one side. In her current toddler room, she's the oldest and most of the children don't talk much. But in twaddlers, a lot of them are pretty good speakers and she picks it up pretty quickly. It could just be my imagination, but even after 2 hours today, when I picked her up she seemed to be using her words a lot better. I think being with the older kids will only help her learn and advance quicker.

Paige loves her sunglasses. She wore them when we were leaving daycare and then still had them on in the car. Of course about 5 minutes later she had them off and was playing with them. Finally I took them from her and told her she could have them back when we get home. Usually this brings on a tantrum when you take anything away from her. But I just kept telling her she'd get them when we got home. It was finally starting to sink in and she would repeat "glasses home, glasses home, glasses home" over and over again for most of the ride home. Here's a picture of her in her glasses when we finally got home.

Our House

This has been a huge week for us. We had an offer on the house that we accepted. We're trying not to get too excited about it until after we close (which could be a few more weeks from now). We have the appraisal and inspection coming up this week, so I think we'll at least be a bit more relieved after those happen.

I took some pictures of the backyard and put in the scrapblog below. We are definitely outgrowing this house, but at the same time it will be sad for us to leave it since it was our first house and everything Paige has ever known.

Soggy Sandy

A few weeks ago, we bought Paige "The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland." It's a fun little romp, and Paige loves it...all Elmo, all the time.

There's a little diddy that's been in my head from the movie. It's a short little song by a grouch kid, and I was surprised that Google couldn't find the lyrics anywhere on the web. So I've decided to reproduce them here. I think this would be a fabulous toy idea, provided that the doll came with the song:

"Soggy Sandy wet her pants,
That's why they call her soggy.
Watch her do her soggy dance,
Then after you'll get wet."

Hopefully this post will help get it out of my head!!! -Dad

Being Silly

Here's yet another ScrapBlog. If you click in the lower right corner, where it says ScrapBlog, it will open a new window to the scrap blog site. Then there will be another link at the top right corner that says View Full Screen. That will give you the best view. I know it can be difficult to see the pictures when you're just looking at it inside this blog.

These pictures were all taken last night when I was trying to change her into her pj's. I'm not sure if you can see in that first picture, but she still has her sandals on. And when I finally got her to put her pj's on and I took off those sandals she had the biggest fit! So I put them back on her on top of her footed pj's (I wish I would've taken a picture of that). She actually slept with them on all night and wore the sandals again to school today!

Day at the Park

On the Saturday before Easter, we went to the McCormick-Stillman Railroad park in Scottsdale for the day. The train went all around the park. She loved the Merry-Go-Round! She kept asking to ride it again. They also had a very nice playground. She was fearless when it came to going down the slides...even the big ones!

ScrapBlog

I came across this website today and I'm already addicted! It's an online version of scrapbooking! And it's soooo easy to use. It's also compatible with Picasa where we already store most of our pictures. You just choose a template, then choose your pictures and drag and drop. There's also a lot of neat features that you can customize each page if you really get into it. Here are 2 pages that I did with some of the few Easter pictures I took this year of Paige: