Mirror, mirror...

Mirror, mirror on the wall who is the most adorable of them all....
I have been trying to get Alli to let me put a bow in her hair lately 'cause she actually has enough hair to do that now (barely). And maybe then people will quit telling me what a cute little boy I have :-) Of course as soon as I put it in, she takes it right back out. So I took her to the bathroom mirror to show her how pretty she was with it. When I lifted her up to the counter top, she took a seat in the sink. And then she decided that was so much fun that she didn't want to get down. So I let her play in the sink for awhile and she was so distracted that she left the bow in her hair the whole time! Now when we go in the bathroom, she always wants to play in the sink. I however don't find it fun to sit in the bathroom with her, so most of the time she doesn't get her way which leads to a temper tantrum, etc. but you don't want to hear about all that. Whew, toddlers sure are fun sometimes!

See, doesn't she just look so cute!
Hey mom!
This is so much fun! Who knew?
What's down there? Where's the rest of me?
Yep, that's me alright! I do look good! But as soon as I'm done playing up here, this bow has got to go!

Any of you mothers of little girls out there who know how to get them to start wearing bows in their hair, I'm open to suggestions! (hint, hint Rebecca, Stephanie- I know Julianne and Autumn always have accessories in their hair- tell me your secrets)

Quack, quack!

We took Alli to the duck park in Boerne a couple of weekends ago and fed the ducks. Everytime she sees a duck- a real one, a decoy, a picture of one, a stuffed animal duck, her duck tub, etc. she says "quack quack"! And sometimes when she sees other birds (the flamingos at the zoo, for instance) she still chimes in with a "quack quack". I started to correct her, but then they starting honking and they actually did sound quite a bit like ducks- how do you explain that to a 15mos old. A duck is definitely not the only animal noise she has learned, but by far her favorite and most consistent. As a matter of fact, we've almost got the whole farm down, not to mention a few jungle animals. It's amazing how all of a sudden things are clicking and she is picking them up so fast- amazing to watch! Anyway, here are some pics from our outing...

A little too close for mommy's comfort. Dwaine has good timing with the camera 'cause I yanked my had away right after he snapped this shot!
Okay, so these are not the cutest ducks in the world- quite ugly actually. But, Alli didn't care.
Here ducky... we kept trying to tell Alli to throw the bread at the ducks, but she wanted to walk right up to it and have it take it out of her hand. That didn't happen, of course.
Alli always has to stop what she's doing to wave and say "hi" to the cars when they drive by. I still can't get her to do that with people that say "hi" to her in public. No, only for cars.
Alli decided she needed to eat some of the bread too, which would have been fine had that piece not just fallen on the ground, so Daddy had to take that one away.

We also got to see the fish in the creek and fed some of them too. Alli also loves fish by the way (we have two aquariums at home). She says "sishes" everytime she sees fish. I guess we'll have to explain one of these days that the plural to fish is still fish, but I don't think she's ready for that lesson just yet :-)