Piano Bear, Poker, and Shower Design Night

Today Paige made her bear play piano. He HAD to sit perfectly on the bench or she got upset. She played the songs for him.













She also found our poker set in the closet and was SO excited when Jess opened it for her. She played with the chips and dice for quite a while.













Paige also likes to play in our shower, rearranging our shampoos and things. She carries them back and forth from one side to the other, often placing them carefully in their corresponding locations on the opposite end.

13 weeks and 2 babies

Here's a 13 week belly pic. I'm still just guessing on how far along I am. My left arm makes it look like I have a weird hump on my back.













Also, here's Paige yesterday when we first got up. She held both her favorite babies lovingly while she watched a movie.













Finally, here she is appearing to be left-handed. She's been drawing and writing a lot lately, and always with her left hand.

Guess who...

...has infections in both ears and both eyes? Paiger!!!!!!! Poor baby's eyes were gooped shut this morning, and when the doctor was checking her out she said her ears were both infected too. She was a little grumpy today, but I thought it was because I wouldn't let her have any Teddy Grahams until she ate some real lunch. So now we have to give her eye drops in both eyes 3 times a day. That's a fun time. Luckily for us she loves taking medicine of any kind out of a dropper. At her appointment they had me strip her down to her diaper, but she wanted to wear her purple shoes and her snow hat. Pretty cute stuff.

Trick Rider

Tonight Paige invented a couple more moves for her trick riding. We got a picture of one, but were too slow to get the other one. The one we missed was kind of a super man thing on the back of her quad, with her hands on the handlebars, belly on the very back behind the seat and her feet up in the air. Pretty awesome.













Also, Jess wanted DuckTales on dvd for "Paige", so he got it for Valentine's Day. He's very pleased that she loves it. Especially the theme song, understandably. Here are a couple pics of her dancing to that.


























Finally, a video of it. Unfortunately, her dancing had become less joyful and boisterous by the time we took video. (Sorry, you need the volume pretty loud if you're hoping to hear the theme song play):

Inflation Station

Today Veronica and Lily came over, and brought Lily's brand new Dora the Explorer ball pit. Veronica spent like 20 minutes trying to blow up the 500 different compartments that had to be inflated for it to stand up right. Paige was SO excited to play in it, she kept trying to get in before it was anywhere near ready. Finally she just decided to help blow it up herself. Smarty.


























And the heaven on earth that was the ball pit:

Comfort

Tonight Paige sat in her chair with her baby. She started dropping her on the ground "accidentally". Every time she did, she would cry out as if surprised and worried her baby would be hurt, and would rush to pick her up and comfort her. She held her tight and patted her back softly, and cooed quietly at her to make her feel better. Then she would do it over again.

Mama Can't Eat Breakfast

Jess got up with Paige so I could sleep in this morning. When I got up I was starving, so after I said hi to Paige and gave her a hug I left the room for a few seconds to make myself breakfast. This is how she felt about that.













But the rest of the day was great. We went to the park. After we took a walk with her in the stroller, she played in the tube, got pushed in the swing, and went down the slide. Then we let her cruise around in the grass, and she helped Jess push the stroller around.