So Hot Outside

It has been ridiculously HOT outside this week, so we've stuck close to the house and stayed inside. The girls have been so good and have really played well together! They have entertained themselves by playing chase. Hannah rides around on the little car and Alice Anne crawls and chases her. They go around in circles through the kitchen into the den and back through the kitchen...they go forever and laugh hysterically!

This is where Alice Anne learned her rough play...they could do this all day long! They just roll around laughing!!


Hannah and I have been talking a lot about birds this week. We made a little bird feeder and made some hummingbird food to put out for the hummingbirds. Hannah loves looking out and watching for birds and she wants to go fill the birdbath up multiple times a day. She'll say, "Mommy, the birds are so hot and thirsty! Lets go give them some more water."

Little rug rat! I wish this picture showed how dirty she REALLY was!! She was the biggest mess I had ever seen!

This week Hannah has really been into her babies and pretend play. She is a really good little mommy! We had to pull out some leftover NB diapers b/c Hannah said since she was a mommy, she needed to learn how to change her babies diapers :) She wants her babies to go everywhere with her and she is very serious about taking care of them...especially when she doesn't want to eat what we're having for dinner!! She'll be sitting at the table and all of a sudden say, "Oh, my baby is crying. She's really hungry. I need to go get her!" As if her baby's going to come eat her food that she doesn't want!!!

She said her baby was sick and she needed to lay on the couch and cuddle with her...so sweet!

This morning she was up on the kitchen counter with all of her little farm animals. I was just listening to her talk and play. She was talking to all her "little children" (aka the farm animals). She was the teacher and she was telling them that they were about to go out on the playground. She pulled up a measuring cup that was out on the counter and put the cow in the cup and said, "it's ok little children, cow is going to have a turn swinging and then you can have a turn." Cow was swinging in the measuring cup. Then she loaded all of the animals up in the "school bus" (aka the bucket) and said they were going to chick-fil-a! It is so fun to listen to her imagination go wild!!
Her other current obsession is cooking! She LOVES to help in the kitchen!! We have been using a lot of herbs from her garden in our cooking and she is so proud every time we sit down at the table. Last night we used thyme and parsley and she was so excited to tell daddy about getting the thyme and parsley out of the garden. She watched him very closely as he tasted it. We made cookies this morning and when we were getting the ingredients out she said, "come on, mommy, lets go get our herbs." I explained to her that we didn't need any herbs for cookies and she said, "it's ok...we'll just use rosemary and basil."