Life... as we know it: Suri's Saturday

Suri has had a fun weekend so far! Her imagination continues to expand and it is fun to find new activities for her to put her mind to work. This morning, I decided to take out some beans, bowls, plastic frogs and some spoons and see what Suri would do with them. She absolutely LOVED transferring the beans from one cup to another. Her concentration as well as determination was impressive. She worked on this activity for quite some time and her hand became more and more steady as she discovered that the slower she goes, the more likely to have a successful transfer with out spillage. It was a lot of fun to watch her play and it inspired me to find and create more activities for her to engage in. . . thanks to the Internet and to google, I will have to get busy and create a recipe book for activities for her : )

Today we also took a trip back to Imagination Avenue (this time I remembered my socks!) Suri remembered the place as soon as we pulled into the parking lot! (She has a memory like an elephant and was so excited to go inside and play). This time, she was more organized in the activities she chose to work on. Once again, her concentration was remarkable and I enjoyed watching her figure out what to do. She found an iron and knew to get clothes out of the dryer to iron them! Very impressive as I must admit, ironing is one of my LEAST favorite things to do and Suri has maybe seen me actually do it two times at the MOST! But, I must have made an impression on her as she knew exactly what to do. She also vacuumed like a pro and asked me to "sit down" while she baked some cupcakes. She made sure to remind me every 15 seconds that the oven was "hot". I had to laugh... she did many of the same things to me that I do to her : )

After her nap, we went to church and then out to Grandpa's house for dinner. Grandpa made his famous enchiladas (which Suri ate none of... sorry Grandpa) and Jackson and Aunt Lindsay were home from Texas. Suri was SO excited see Jack and Grandpa, she kept saying "Jack" and "Pa Paaw" all afternoon.
She was one tired little girl when we got home tonight, but seemed to have had a very fun day : )

These next pictures are of Suri at Imagination Avenue. She picked out the outfit she was wearing and insisted on wearing my necklace along with the skirt (that was really a holiday skirt) : )
She was miss Sassy Pants from the moment she woke up this morning!

It was funny to see the look on her face when she opened the cash register and found NO MONEY. She was so disappointed as carrying around the money was her favorite thing to do last time we were here.