I'm a Barbie Girl!
What a beautiful day today! Jenna asked me, 'Is it summertime, Mommy?' I had to tell her no, but that it felt warm enough that we could do anything that we would do in the summer. She was thrilled, but couldn't think of anything in particular that she wanted to do that we haven't already been doing for the past few weeks.
A few fun things from our week:
Jenna has started drawing family portraits. She paints, then points out Daddy, Mommy, Portia, and herself.
This week Jenna started telling me that, 'Nana wants me to have that', when I would tell her no. I used to call her The Negotiator, but might have to start calling her The Manipulator! Nana told me that she was probably right. Argh, grandparents! ;)
She also decided that she wants us to leave her door open during nap time. Never in a million years did I think she would go to sleep, but I was willing to give it a try. Success! So I guess as long as she keeps napping, we can leave it open if she wants.
We have also been trying to do a few projects each week. Fun for her and a teachable moment for me. First project was that I cut a three different shapes out of construction paper and let her glue them onto a paper that was divided into three sections (one for each shape). She did great sorting and gluing. Also fun was trying to pull off each shape after they were glued.
The next project was unentended. I bought a new dresser to put in our hallway and started putting it together during naptime. Unfortunately naptime only lasted about 30 minutes, so I had a little helper. It took about twice as long to put together than it probably would have taken without help, but we talked about all of the different pieces and she helped me find the parts I needed, so in the end it was worth the extra time
A not so fun thing from our week:
Our house got damaged in the hailstorm last weekend. I have never seen so much hail fall for so long! Our house shook and shook and shook. We even had pictures fall off the wall! We are waiting for the insurance adjsustor to visit, but so far we have been told that we will need to replace all of the windows on the back of our house and get a new roof and gutters. I have a feeling that the list will be much longer once the adjustor gets by, but the great news is that no one was hurt.
