Artist

Casey was quite the artist this week. She played with sidewalk chalk at the rec center daycare and then later at home; she colored with crayons all week, one of her favorite activities (which is nice for mommy); and she got real messy with fingerpaints at home.

She is starting to notice her friends now. She will ask about her friends every once in a while, "Rowan?" She is also starting to play with her friends. We went to pick her up from the rec center daycare and Rowan and Casey were actually playing together on the slide. Sarah and Brian watched Casey on Saturday while mom, dad and Aunt Kel went riding at Keystone. They had fun chasing each other around the house. Aunt Kel babysat Casey Sat night while mom and dad went to a fundraising event for her daycare.

Casey is very much into climbing lately. She wants to climb on everything...the coffee table, up into chairs, under chairs, on her toys. She'll climb up onto her toy, then look around very proud. She is also starting to pretend play a lot more. She'll make her horse walk around, her little people walk around and jump off things. Her vocabulary is growing too. She repeats pretty much everything we say. She says, "Thank you" a whole lot and usually when she is actually supposed to. She is also putting together 2 word sentences. Sometime we're amazed by the things that come out of her mouth.

She is a little fiesty sometimes too. She had her first official "timeout" this past week. She kept hitting mommy with her toy. After 2 warnings, she was whisked upstairs into her crib, with no blankey. It took her a minute to register, but once she did, she cried until I came back a minute later to "discuss." After she calmed down, we came back downstairs and she continued playing, without hitting mommy. I'm sure it will always be that easy!!;)

Enjoy the pix.

trying to be blue like her Aunt Kel (aka, Smurfette) on Halloween

"cheese"

chalking up the sidewalk