Baking Cookies with Daddy

Rosie and Daddy got up early the other day and made chocolate chip cookies - YUMMY!  Later that afternoon, Rosie and Mommy had a picnic in the kitchen, eating chocolate chip cookies and juice.  It was a good day.

Washing our Hands

Rosie has taken on a interest in cleanliness, specifically washing her hands.  Its not bad thing, washing hands often does help prevent colds and other random illnesses.  Many times a day we go into the bathroom, Mommy turns on the water and puts soap on Rosie's hands and she washes them.  Then Mommy turns off the water and hands Rosie the towel to dry her hands.  It is quite a production, but we are teaching good hygiene skills, so it's worth it.  As you can see from the pictures below, Rosie really reaches to accomplish this task.

A Day at the Library

Last Saturday we headed to the local library to check it out and see about getting library cards.  We were not able to get library cards, because we don't have Wisconsin driver's licenses yet, but we did get paperwork to fill out so we can get library cards in the mean time.    Anyway, we ventured over the the children's section of the library and found a little play area.  Rose had a good time to playing with large wooden letters, large legos and on the dinosaurs, as seen below.

Yesterday we made it to Family Story Time and we are hoping to go to the story time on Tues. morning for Toddler Story Time.     

Rose and strange child on the red dinosaur

Rose on the green dinosaur

Rose playing at the library

Rosie's Fairy Books

Rosie loves to read her Fairy Books.  Nee-Nee and Jessica (friends and child care providers in Portland) gave Rosie three Fairy Books before we headed out of town to come out east.  Fairy Fun Time, Fairy Tea Party, and Fairy School Days.  We read them in that order before quiet time and bed time.  Rose also likes to read them to her Lamb-E and her baby doll too.  I wish the video worked that I have of her reading, but I'm having trouble posting it...I hope to get it figured out soon.  Just a couple of cute pictures of Rosie reading.  Thank you Renee and Jessica for the books!  Rosie loves them.  

Moving Day

Our stuff finally got here on Wed. Feb. 18th.  The moving truck backed down the road to our place and started unloading.  Much of the stuff went into the basement and garage, as our place is a little smaller than our old house.  We are only here (at this house) for 6 months, so the plan is to unpack the stuff we need/want right now.  Thank goodness Andy got the driveway shoveled, but it did get icy.  I had to borrow salt from the neighbors to put on the driveway so the movers wouldn't slip and fall.  And it started snow again.  Of course the snow ended just as the movers were driving away.  

Snowing 

Rosie's room before

Dinning room and kitchen area before

Rosie taking a break hanging out in her car seat - Thank you Chris and Tracey!

Kitchen, still unloading more boxes.

I hope to post the after pictures, once I get EVERYTHING put away. 

Our First Snow in Wisconsin

On Feb. 18th we had our first snow fall in Wisconsin, since we got here on the 14th.  It also happened to be the day our moving van arrived with all our stuff.  So, Andy got up early in the morning to start shoveling the driveway.  Here are some pictures.

The view out our front window

Andy shoveling snow

Are you sure you don't want to get a snow blower until next winter?

The view from our back window

DO NOT OPEN UNITL YOU GET TO WISCONSIN!

Michael B., a volunteer from Medical Teams International, gave me a mystery bottle on my last day of work there.  However, he wrote on the box that I could not open it, until I got to Wisconsin.  I was going to open it at the state line, as we crossed into Wisconsin, but that didn't work out, because the state line is on a bridge, and there was no place to pull off the side of the road.  So, I waited until Sunday, Feb. 15th to open the bottle.  It was wine!  Andy and I celebrated by drinking the whole bottle that night.  Thanks for the wine Michael!  It was delicious!