Playtime

Q does not like to be left out!  No matter what the activity is she finds a way to work herself into it, and I love it!  Y is okay with it most times but it depends on the activity. 

Recently Y has really started to spend a lot of time coloring which she likes to do while laying on the floor.  The problem with that is that Q is always rolling around on the floor (she's starting to attempt to get on her knees now too) and she always works herself over to wherever Y happens to be.  Q will then start grabbing the crayons, markers and the coloring book until Y will eventually get frustrated and move somewhere else.  It'll take Q a while but she always eventually works her way over to Y's new location and it all starts up again!  It can be very entertaining to watch.

So tonight when Y asked to play her ABC board game with me I sat down on the floor with her and gave Q a different toy to play with.  But as evidenced by the photos below she was not interested in  that toy at all - she wanted to play with us!  She was surprisingly gentle with everything and didn't even try to put anything in her mouth.  After watching us move the pieces around the board she started trying it as well.  She's very perceptive and never misses a beat, that's for sure!

Technologically Advanced...

This morning while I made B some breakfast (pancakes in the shapes of "#" and "1" to represent #1 Dad) Y wanted to be distracted so she started asking for games. Now when she starts saying "games" that means she either wants to "play" the Wii with you or she wants to play games on my iPod Touch. I have downloaded several apps for her to play on my iPod and she loves them and has mastered them already. For the most part I stick to free apps but there is this one company, Duck Duck Moose, that has created these awesome apps from children's songs.  Several months ago I downloaded their Itsy Bitsy Spider app and it has been great at keeping her occupied while at restaurants or even at home.  Well recently I've downloaded a couple more of their apps since they are now 50% off ($0.99) and she loves those too!  One is The Wheels on the Bus and another is called Fish School which goes through the alphabet, numbers, colors, etc. (Side note:  she knows her ABCs for the most part and can count from 1-10 in english and 1-6 in spanish, and she is doing pretty well in learning her body parts in spanish as well, woohoo)!!

Anyway, she has pretty much mastered the use of my iPod. She says "games" when she wants to play games and "see baby" when she wants to watch videos or see pictures of herself.  She knows which screen has her games on it and how to get to that screen and she knows which button to press to exit any app she enters.  Fortunately she has not figured out what mommy's passcode is or how to enter it!  It's an expensive toy for her that's for sure, but fortunately she is extremely gentle with it but I still try not to let her play with it unsupervised (unless I REALLY need to distract her). 

Here are some pictures of her relaxing with daddy on the couch as mommy made breakfast (and snapped a few photos)...enjoy!