Proud mama

Emi said her first 3-syllable word on Monday.

Dinosaur!

I am SO PROUD!! I've never gotten over my childhood love of dinosaurs and all things paleontology, which Downwood saw first-hand when we went to the Field Museum and I totally geeked out in the dinosaur exhibits.

And now my little girl comes over a couple times a day saying, "Saurus! Saurus! Saurus!" This is her way of asking us to get down the giant dinosaur encyclopedia (souvenir from Field Museum) so that she can look at the pictures while we tell her the dinosaur names.

By her birthday in August, she'll probably have found something else that's equally amazing and wonderful to her. She still loves to pretend to cook and she loves animals and all of that's okay with me. I'm just so tickled that she loves something that I love.

slice of life - week 28 edition

No, body, I don't care HOW pregnant you are: potato chips and cool whip are NOT two great tastes that go great together.

Potato chips and chocolate ice cream, on the other hand, might actually be okay. Maybe even with peanut butter, too. But the cool whip is right out.