Puddle Playing.

These photos were taken a few weeks after we got home from Bahrain in late June. It has been raining for a few days and a small puddle had formed in our flower bed. We were coming in from grocery shopping and Skye saw the puddle and wanted to explore it. Naturally I let her, I love watching little kids discover new things. She played in the puddle until all of the water was splashed out of it, she even picked up a dead beetle and said "ewwww" but she wasn't a bit scared of it. She is really growing up now and loves to explore everything she sees!

Easter Fun

Wow, it sure has been a long time since I said "hi" to everyone! I am growing up so fast, learning new words, eating new things, and learning new activities almost every day!
These pictures are from Easter, we went to an egg hunt, I was scared of the easter bunny, what is up with that guy anyway? Who ever thought a giant bunny costume would be cute? I found 4 eggs in the egg hunt! one of them had tiny crayons inside of it! Then we went to Fuddruckers for easter lunch.......not very traditional but we do what we can!

18 months big

I love to sweep the floors!

....and color with my new crayons!

and of course I read my sisters magazines!

Daddy lets me help him with the computer.

I am eating a mini hamburger and it isn't cut up! (of course a few moments later I tried to stuff half of it into my mouth so Mommy took away and cut it up)

I am a year and a half now and I think I am a very big girl. I love to to do big girl things like learn new words and try new activities. Today I learned how to say "go, Lexi, cute" Mommy gets very excited when I learn new words, she claps and makes happy sounds so now when I say something new I clap and make loud sounds too. My climbing skills are getting better too, I have been climbing up and down on and off of the couches and bed for a while but that got boring. I decided to make things interesting this morning......mommy put my toy basket next to the couch so I climbed on it like a mountain and went over the arm of the couch. I was very proud that I did it but Mommy said I would get hurt and made me get down. I do get hurt sometimes, I was doing spinning around the other week and I fell right onto the , corner of the coffee table and got a bruise on my cheek. There were little rubbery things that Daddy put on the corners of the table to protect my little head but I ripped them all off and used them as teethers. I have 4 molars now and am getting 4 more teeth in......I've been getting new teeth since December so I like to chew on everything. I also like to be a big help to Mommy and Daddy, when we get groceries I ride on the trolley from the car to our apartment to make sure all the bags don't fall off, I help Daddy with the computer, I run away with tiny screws and poke things with the screwdriver and sit on Daddy's leg and read instructions. I love to help mommy cook, I get out all the stuff she needs like cereal and oatmeal and cookies, tons of tupperware, pots, pans, and measuring cups then I spread them out all over the floor so she can see them clearly.......I also love to help Lexi with folding the laundry. She gets them all folded in neat stacks and I throw them all on the floor, I'm not sure how it helps but it is fun to do! I also have new places that I love to go, the park is the best place, I get so excited when I see it or even if I see a slide for sale in a toy store. And when we stop at the park and Mommy lets me out of the car I run and run as fast as my short little legs will go, I always ride the little animal thingys first, then the slides and I love to say "weeeeeeeee" when I go on the slides then I dig in the dirt for a bit and then I ride the swings then I run and run and run on all the paths and in the grass. I don't ever want to go home!!! I also like to go to Fudruckers and eat the tiny hamburgers they have for kids, I can eat like a big girl now even though Mommy still likes to cut my things up tiny for me, she says my bites are too big.

Once upon a time there was a little girl named Skye. Her mommy and daddy were enjoying a tv show while Skye played quietly on the floor on the other side of the couch. All they could see was the top of her sweet little head and they couldn't believe she was being so quiet and playing for so long. Mommy wanted to see what had her little angel so pre-occupied, was it the new play food or perhaps a doll? Nope. It was the soft-spout sippy cup full of yogurt smoothie. Little sweet Skye bit a hole in the soft spout and had poured the contents of the cup on the floor and was in her stomach pretending to swim in the sticky, milky mess. She saw Mommy and Daddy looking at her and said "hi" and tried to run away but couldn't get up off of the slippery floor.





Of course Mommy and Daddy weren't very happy but Mommy just had to get the camera to capture Skye's first big mess. Skye couldn't let the milk be the only thing to get photographed, she loves the camera and had to get right in front of it and make her "cheese" face. Her adorable face almost makes you forget her milky shirt, diaper, arms, and legs.




Daddy went to get a towel and told Skye she had to help clean up so she stepped on the towel a few times then ran away with the towel dragging milky towel mess into the kitchen.



Then Daddy got paper towels and some cleaner to get the sticky off of the floor. While he was on his hands and knees Skye decided to get the paper towels and "help' some more. She unrolled all of the paper towels and rubbed Daddy's butt with them then she ran around rubbing everything else in the living room with them. Daddy had a very exasperated look on his face but Mommy thought it was kind of funny.

Playtime at the mall

Today we went to the City Centre Mall and played in the kids play area for awhile. Lexi played video games and did big girl rides with Daddy for awhile then they joined Mommy and I in the tot area. I had a lot of fun running around and climbing, jumping, running, and pretending to wash my hands in the play kitchen. I also went around and hugged a lot of kids, some of them cried and some laughed at me and hugged me back. I also wanted to show the kids their noses and eyes but Mommy told me to stop touching people on the face, they don't like it for some reason. I went down a big tube slide with sissy. When we got home we had some mail and it was the play food and dishes that Mom and Dad got me for Christmas!! I have had fun playing with them so far, they said they also got me a kitchen but it didn't ship because it is too big so they are finding out of the company with ship it fedex instead...I hope so, I really love play kitchens!

Some pictures from my travels

Hanging out at the Bowling Alley while Uncle Jason bowls in his tourney...I was less interested in watching and more interested in all the racing games!

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Getting a bath in the sink...the tubs have glass screens that go halfway across them so it is hard for mom and dad to give me a bath in the tub.....the kitchen sink seems to be a perfect fit for now though!



Eating a local favorite........and a new favorite of mine and moms..............the shawarma! This one is chicken..it has some yogurt sauce, chicken, a pickle spear, some cucumbers and lettuce and sometimes tomatoes on a flatbread thing...YUM!!




We finally made it to Bahrain after a few troubles with our travels. I am so happy to see my Daddy! I snuggled and kissed him for quite a while!



We had to wait outside in very cold, rainy weather in Washington DC. Our flight was canceled and they gave us a hotel room but we had to wait outside for the hotel bus thing. It was pretty miserable.

A local favorite becomes one of my favorites too!

One of the cool things about Bahrain is the food. This local favorite is a shawai'ma or shwarma. It is a thick flat bread with either lamb, beef, or chicken, veggies, and a cucumber sauce. I love them so much. Whenever I see them or smell them I go bonkers until one gets cut up for me. Of course I would rather eat them whole but mom doesn't like it when I stuff half a shwarma into my mouth. Here I am enjoying a chicken shwarma, this one had fries inside of it too. This is kind of like the Bahraini version of fast food, kind of like their version of a gyro or burrito. And you can have them delivered, actually you can have any food delivered here. I can't wait to have another shwarma and lucky for us the place that was voted best in Bahrain is very near to us on the road that daddy calls "heart attack row" it is where all of the American fast food places are.............even burger king, dairy queen, and mcdonalds deliver here. We never eat at those places though, why should we when the local food is so much better!