One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish

I would like to introduce you to Grace's new pet; Blue Fish. Grace has a fish at school named Sammy, who is currently making my life much easier in respect to dropping her off in the morning. She can't wait to see him. So we talked about it and decided that a fish is really not that much trouble, so why not. We picked up Blue Fish a couple weeks ago and Grace loves him. It could be compared to her borderline obsession with the ducks. She absolutely insists on sitting ON the table to get a better view of Blue Fish. Usually the bowl has to be between her legs so she can look down on him. Such a loving little mother. She points and talks to him, and occasionally she'll even blow a kiss or two at him.

A Day at the Museum

A few weeks ago we went to the Louisiana Art and Science Museum. We didn't spend much time looking at real art due to the wild toddler we brought with us. Grace does not want to be held, she doesn't want to hold hands, but she does, in fact, want to run around like a child raised by wolves. Yes, a museum was a splendid idea. Really though, I picked it because of the children's area they have. There's a Discovery Depot and Science Station. The Science Station was a little too big for her, but she felt right at home in the Discovery Depot. She climbed and crawled and played. There was a miniature kitchen, so I sat Grace at the table. While I was helping her get seated Daddy made a plastic pizza. Grace was not pleased that we tricked her. She loved all the cool toys and houses and things to climb on.

Duck Crazy

I think Grace secretly wishes she was a duck. We have a family of ducks in our neighborhood and they're very friendly. One of our neighbors actually has them eating straight out of his hand. We've recently been feeding them too, but not out of our hands. I'm still to nervous, since they get so excited. I don't want them getting too wild and trying to take one of Grace's finger with them when they go. Oakley and Itchy start barking, of course, as they make their way onto the porch to let us know they're here. That's right they come right up to the porch and wait. Grace gets so excited and runs around the house screaming. She runs to the nearest parent for shoes and then she's out the door. She definitely more interested in talking to them than actually feeding them. She squats and walks towards them quacking. Well it actually sounds more like, aah, aah, aah, aah. But really it's the cutest.