Things Are Coming Together

We have now lived here for a whole week. This weekend we finished most of our unpacking and put pretty much everything away. The house is beginning to feel like ours now.

Tomorrow is a big day....the Little Bean will be 11 months old! Only one more month and my baby will become my toddler. Except that she refuses to toddle. She does so much stuff and is walking with our help, bus she refuses to walk on her own. I believe the problem to be obstinacy. That baby is the single most stubborn child I have ever had! :) She is obsessed with playing in the dog's water dish and nothing will dissuade her. It is almost as though it is a game now. She crawls to the bowl, hovers her hand over the water and turns to look at us with a rotten little grin on her face. She is just waiting for us to tell her, "No!" Crazy kid.

Today she learned about magnets. Normally, she just takes the little magnets off the fridge and plays with them, but today, she realized that she can stick them back on. It was pretty exciting and she played for a really really long time with those magnets.

I call this outfit the "chicken elvis" because of its collar. Here the Little Bean is playing the role of the nosy neighbor who spies on the area from her upstairs window and calls the home owner's association when anyone breaks the rules. :)

This is how these two help me do laundry. The Puppy Bean is chewing up the dryer sheet while the Little Bean is unfolding all the clothes that I just folded up.
The Big Bean is really starting to warm up to her little brother and they play quite a bit now. You can see the Little Bean taking refuge inside her brother's kennel. That is the only way she can avoid getting trampled.
The Husband grilled dinner for us tonight and the Little Bean was his assistant.