Sighting No. 59

In just the last week or so, Bridget has turned into a "wild girl". She tries to grab everything in sight, and she's very squirmy. Holding her has become a challenge, since we're never sure what's she's going to do next.

Flexible Girl

Bridget has been trying really hard for the past couple weeks to pull her feet to her mouth, and she finally did it. Now that she can do it, it's been a struggle on the changing table, since that's all she wants to do.

Dressing Bridget

It wasn't enough that Jillian has lots of Barbie dolls to dress up. Last night, she grabbed one of her own pretty "skirts" and Bridget's little pink shoes (that Jillian thinks are like ballet slippers) and put them on Bridget. Despite how Bridget looks in this photo, she actually didn't mind the dress up time, even laughing at the silliness. Jillian is always telling us that Bridget will want to dress up and dance with her when she gets bigger.

Bouncing with Rielee

Since Rielee goes to all day kindergarten she doesn't get to come and play with Jillian as much as before, so today was a treat as Rielee was off for winter break. They had a great time on the new trampoline Jillian got for her birthday that has a safety handle and is big enough for both of them to jump at the same time. They did it together for awhile and then took turns, then did it together for quite awhile. Finally Rielee said she was really tired so they settled down and Rielee showed her new reading ability by reading several Bob books to Jillian. I thought that it would inspire Jillian to get going on her reading but not much luck today. Bribery didn't even work.

They got to go outside for awhile and Papa said they tried out every riding vehicle for about 30 seconds.

Winter Squash

Bridget has liked the rice cereal ever since we started feeding it to her. She eats it right up, and is still wanting more after she's done. It's been a couple weeks of rice cereal, now, so Mommy got out something different ... winter squash. Bridget's first taste of it led to a concerned look, like this photo shows. She wasn't a big fan of the winter squash; we'll try sweet potatoes next time (Jillian's favorite when she was a baby).

Snow Bunny

Here's a photo of Jillian out in the snow, courtesy of Grannie Woodruff. This has been a decent year for snow. Jillian had several opportunities to get outside and play in the white stuff. Plus, she has some nice snow gear for it (her purple coat and brown pants).

Monkey See

This is what Daddy gets when he tries to take a photo of the girls together. Bridget was putting her fist in her mouth (which is typical) and Daddy would pull it out before taking a shot. Jillian decided that it would be pretty funny if she did the same thing. The rest of the photo shoot consisted of Daddy trying to get both of them to pull their hands out of their mouths ... as might be imagined, there were no good photos from this point on.