car noises

Adorable car noises by an adorable girl. I could listen to her do this for ages, it just makes me smile!  Still trying to get a few other things on video that she has started to do: "shhhhhhh" with her finger to her mouth, "eye-ess" (Iris), and touching the stove and saying "awt" (hot). Watch this space!

First Day of School

 First day of preschool this year. She went back into it like a pro.

 I think these are possibly the snowiest "First Day of School" pictures I have ever seen. Good grief!

 Rich had his first snow day of the year seeing as the roads were a disaster! 

 Yes, folks, she still hates the snow... 

BARF!

 So, it snowed this week. A LOT. Flora is delighted, she asked to go outside more times in two days than in the entire spring and summer. Don't be fooled by the picture of Iris above. She HATED it. Cried and cried and cried. She lasted about 6 minutes before I went inside with her.

 This made her happy. She stood at the screen and giggled in delight. She does this funny, high pitched laugh that Flora mimics back to her, then her back to Flora and so on and so on. 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY IRIS (scroll down for more posts!)

 Seriously, can't believe that this little one is already a whole year old. What a treasure she is! She keeps me on my toes in a way that Flora never did with her eagerness to explore and figure out new ways to bump her head. She is up the stairs every chance she gets, waving and saying "hiya" from the top when she gets there. She is always on the move, I am finding that she is happiest when she gets outside and she is able to roam around (can you say LONG WINTER?). She even took a step off the edge of a curb the other day, something Flora didn't master until she was at least two and a half! I have made the mistake of letting her out of the cart at the grocery store and I can now fully understand the reaction from a woman who looked at me in amazement when shopping with Flora and said "she just....she just follows you?". Well, those days are gone. Iris loves to take things off the shelf, take down signs and yesterday, I turned for a split second and she was gone. I found her at the door patiently waiting to be let out, luckily she wasn't heavy enough to trigger the automatic door. She is trouble. But what a fun bit of trouble she is. She still can't resist opening and closing doors, her favourite books are Goodnight Gorilla and Goodnight Moon and her favourite things to eat are 'off the floor' and 'gone cold'.

 slug!

 I was really impressed she was eating a raw zucchini but when I asked her if she was enjoying it she said "hm, not really. It's disgusting."