Easter!

This year, as with most years, Easter was cold and rainy. So, we hid plastic eggs inside (so as not to get egg dye all over my aunt's lovely white carpet) and Satchel loved the game of looking for the eggs. She loved it so much so that we have continued to play it all week at home. We also hide little plastic chicks and little cookies in the eggs to make it even more exciting! If you are like Satchel a tiny cookie or plastic puff ball chickie is pretty darn exciting.

Um, is this an Easter basket full of socks? It must be from Grandma.

Notice that Satchel is wearing tights for the very first time. When I put them on her Easter morning, she threw herself on the floor and cried face down for several minutes before deciding that they weren't too bad.

Also, the lovely yellow dress that Satchel is wearing was made by her Grammie!

Hunting for eggs (or egsh as Satchel calls them).

Spinning

Satchel has been into making herself dizzy by spinning lately. Here's a pretty hilarious video of her testing out the limits of her spinning.

We're Back!!!

Since my last post, my Mom has made a couple visits to Chicago. During one of her visits, we spent the day at the Art Institute. I wasn't sure how Satchel would do, so we went on a free day thinking that we would stay for just a little while before her patience ran thin. She surprised us though and we stayed for several hours (with breaks for lunch and snacks, of course). Here are the pics.

We spent a bit of time in the hands-on children's area.

Satchel takes a rest by Edward Hopper's Nighthawks.

Satchel Reading

Satchel's very favorite thing to do is read books or have books read to her. Here is a video of her spending some quality time reading The Potty Book aloud.

Snow of Century!

Last night we weathered one of the biggest snow storms that I have ever experienced. We had thunder and lightening, 50 mile an hour winds, an 8 hour power outage, and all totaled about 2 feet of snow. Here are the photos to prove it!

This is the chicken coop barricaded against the storm. All four survived!

Yes, those are drifts up to Matt's waist.

Satchel Painting

Satchel has begun to get what painting and coloring with crayons are all about and she has begun to enjoy them. Notice the blue paint on her mouth and in her hair. At this point, painting generally occurs on bath day or if not, painting day will evolve into bath day.

Satchel's dress up obsession

Satchel is obsessed with trying on our clothes and our shoes. She is particularly fond of my slippers and sometimes will throw a minor fit if I'm wearing them and she thinks that she should get to wear them. I thought about buying her a pair of slippers of her very own, but I think that the novelty is that she gets to wear something that isn't hers.

Given her preoccupation with wearing our clothes, we have to be particularly careful that dirty clothes go directly into the hamper and not onto the floor, otherwise their libel to end up around Satchel's neck. Fortunately in the photos below, the clothes she is wearing are fresh from the dryer and clean. She is thoroughly enjoying herself.