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| Riding the school bus for the first time! |
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| She really liked the truck! |
They've been working on matching colors and objects at school with Kinsey for a long time and it's starting to show. Last weekend we were in a store and she saw a shelf of stuffed animals. There were a bunch of pink and purple animals and there were 2 green turtles that were pretty far apart from each other. She grabbed one of the turtles, then touched a few of the pink and purple ones and reached back in the pile for the matching turtle! I didn't even realize what she was doing at first until she grabbed the 2nd turtle and then I realized she was purposefully getting the only other one that was the same as what she had in her hand already. Pretty cool!
Then one afternoon this week she was sitting on the couch with me watching a video on the ipad about turtles. She decided to get down and I thought she was just done with the movie, but she walked straight over to the new stuffed turtle from the store (because of course, I bought 1 of them, but not both). She obviously knew the character in the movie was the same as her new stuffed animal!
Speaking of which, watching videos on the ipad is her new favorite activity. We signed up for netflix and I started watching some old shows/movies on my ipad while she watches cartoons on the big tv (I'm pretty tired of watching her cartoons). Anyway, she wanted to know what I was up to and started climbing up on the couch to sit with me so I found some kid movies for her and put my shows on the big tv instead. Now whenever she sees my ipad or hers, she immediately grabs it and wants to watch something on it. She'll sit on the couch and cuddle up with me, which I absolutely love because she's usually too busy to sit with me, or she'll sit on the couch by herself to watch a movie.
Last weekend we went out to eat and the restaurant had a soft serve ice cream machine with teeny tiny ice cream cones - just the right size for Kinsey! So I filled one up and handed it to her. At first she wasn't sure what to make of it, but she eventually tasted it and decided it was good so she ate it. She did a good job with it until she ran out of ice cream at the top and decided to turn it sideways and take a bite out of the side of the cone. Here's a video.
And the last bit of fun from the past week is that we went out to see the chickens yesterday and Kinsey wanted to carry the egg collecting basket, which gave me the idea to let her collect the eggs for the first time. We've been cautious about it because she might break them and because of her allergy. So I added a little towel to the bottom of the basket for a little cushion to protect the eggs and we headed out. She really enjoyed picking up each egg (we found 14!) and putting them in the basket one at a time. She was being really careful with them at first, but then she started dropping them in the basket and a couple of them broke when they hit each other. But she did a great job and really enjoyed it. Next time I'll put another towel over the first layer of eggs so she doesn't break them.
