Growing Girl...

Alice is growing so fast, and learning so many new things, and I'm happy, but where's my baby?!

She can pedal and steer all over the place now! It is so fun to watch her do it all by herself, and she is pleased as can possibly be.
She really likes to make use of the little "shelf" on the bottom of the bike. Today, she rested her snack there, but it fell off once she got going fater. What a big girl!

She is really into cutting. She does a pretty good job too! It will entertain her for like thirty minutes. She just sits there and fringes all around a piece of paper, creating many minuscule little paper shards along her merry way. (This picture is horrid. I painted her face that day (a cat) and she had taken a wipe to clean it all off, but of course she wasn't all that thorough.)

We were playing hide and seek the other day. It goes like this. "Mama hide Ruby's room." Then she counts, something like this..."one, two, free, four, five, twenty six, twentyseventeen, eight nine, ten!" Before she even tries to find you, she says, "say achoo" and you have to pretend to sneeze so she can hear where you are (this part was made up by she and Chris). Then, it's her turn to hide, and she says, "count to twelve mama!"

Funny girl. Love her.