Silliness

Just being silly.  The child has decided that pretending to go to sleep on the kitchen mat is entertaining.

I'm going to start tagging [video] when I post one since at least one RSS reader doesn't give any indication that there's something interesting to see.

Bedtime

Gwen's first experience with a toddler bed.  She did really well, managing not to kill herself on anything overnight.

A will of her own

Note from daycare"  "Gwen is becoming more assertive and will not cower down to the [bigger] boys..."

Yesterday, I was playing on my tablet while she was running around.  She comes up to me, shouts "NO!", smacks the tablet out of my hands, and climbs up to the couch with a toy she wanted me to play with her.

Today, she wants to be with me, but it's Jenni's turn to take care of her.  Jenni gets pushed away and I swear I heard "go away!"

This is going to be an interesting experience, this whole parenthood thing.  Already afraid of what puberty is going to be like...

Let there be tea!

Aunt Susi got Gwen a tea set for her birthday.  She really enjoys forcing us to have tea parties.  Gwen, not Susi.

Ketchup

Or is it cat soup?  I can never remember...

McDonald's on our way up to Nebraska.  Burger and fries on her plate, and guess what she eats?

Notice the shape of the little cup at this point.  It's about as empty as a 2 year old can make it.  Daddy's girl indeed.

Playing in the house

Just some slow-moving play.  Nothing exciting to see here.

More with the glasses theme...

This is Gwen's costume for Halloween (on the right). 

This is Gwen trying on the feet (backwards) and hood, with her sunglasses on.

And just for good measure, at grammer's:

Still rockin' with the glasses, indoor, outdoor, doesn't matter.

Just along for the ride

This video gives a better view of her new daycare's play area, i.e. the entire back and side yard.

Rhino is pulling the wagon.  Gwen has quite a crush on him.

I insisted the child have fire at her second birthday party.

I may have created a monster.

Just walkin'

My child is short.  Walking is sometimes a trial.

But she did have a good time pushing this thing around, nonetheless.

Posting

Yes, a serious lack of posts recently.  The major problems have been twofold. 

The first relates to time.  In particular, one of my normal posts takes about 2 hours to do.  I have to comb through the pics, find the best ones, resize them, do the same for movies (which is much worse - they have to go through several programs to make them usable), then come up with witty dialog.  It gets very intimidating when I haven't done it for awhile, since there is so much source material to go through.

The second is also about time.  Blame Skyrim.  It has swallowed my soul.

So I'm on to an experiment.  I'm going to post random pics and not worry overly much about it.  Today's topic:  Buckethead.

These are quite old.  Apparently at her last daycare she'd just walk around with this bucket on her head.  I have an odd child.

The poor balloon...

This is a balloon:

Note how it is happily floating along without a care in the world.


This is also a balloon:

Note that after a hard night of partying, the balloon is a bit...  tired.

The hard part: after watching your child poke at it and regale it to "wake up!" repeatedly, having to try to explain that no, it won't wake up and no, daddy can't fix it.

Probably made me more sad than it did her...