We're goin' to the zoo, zoo zoo!

My friend and I took our girls to the zoo yesterday because Spring seems to have finally arrived and we were in need of a day out of the house. She took a bunch of cute pictures, so I'm sure I'll post more when I get them from her, but here are a few.

Our little safari wagon - love the shades on these chicks!


Little dudes are just eggs, leave 'em on the beach to hatch and then...coo-coo-ca-choo, they find their way back to the big ol' blue (Crush the tortoise -- Finding Nemo - ahh)


Everything was a kitty to Miss Peanut and when this big kitty walk across and sat right in front of her her eyes just about popped out of her head.


Taking a ride on the Komodo Dragon

Miss Peanut's new favorite thing to say is "I got it" and that is all I caught on video before the memory on my camera was full, but it makes me laugh everytime she says it cause its so stinkin' cute.

Aside from Miss Peanut's mini-meltdown when it was about time for a nap, the day went pretty smoothly! Thanks for a day out Nick!

Easter

I really loved Elder Holland's General Conference message, so for the Easter season and any other time, I hope you will take time to read it. Any words I could say would fall far short.





How cute is this little princess? I loved this dress when I found it, but like most Easter dresses it is sleeveless and hello it's not all that warm here yet, so I needed to find some kind of little cardigan to go with it. Gotta say - I don't love them together, but it worked because seriously I couldn't find anything to match closer without having to buy one that came with another dress. I just love that she pranced around in it like a little princess and loved being all dressed up! I even got her to hold still long enough to curl little ringlets in the back of her hair. So fun to have a little girl!

Side note: My daughter - does not know how to smile for the camera - I just get the cheese face a lot. She's still such a cute little stinker, but I'm going to try to have my sister take some professional cute ones and hopefully get some smiles with her eyes open - but we'll have to see.

We had a little basket with eggs for her in the morning, and I guess with Officer busy working all weekend we kind of forgot about things like dying eggs and stuff, but the highlight of her Easter was an Easter egg hunt at Grandma's house after dinner. We had several of the cousins (and Aunts) all together and the Dad's had just as much fun hiding all the eggs. We weren't sure how quickly Miss Peanut would catch onto the concept, but she went out there like a pro.

This is the before shot:

And the after shots:

She seriously did not want to part with those eggs after it was all done and she figured out what was in them.
This is Miss Peanut in action:

A smattering of things...

I am amazed at how quickly Miss Peanut's vocabulary has expanded the last month or so. She is just such a sponge. Here's just a few:

dad - dad da
mom - mamma
grandpa - pa-pa
hi
bye-bye
up
down
open
shoe (totally has a show fetish already)
sock
shirt
pants
home
ball
cracker - kacker
cookie - cooey
water - otter
cheese - cheez
strawberries - berwies
blueberries - usually comes out boo-bies you can thank dad for that one.
shower
chair
car
beep-beep
vroom-vroom
keys
dog
kitty
bear
turtle
baby
belly

She still signs: I only taught her probably 5-6, but she talks enough now to usually get her point across.
- more
- please
- all done
- toilet - it's been so helpful with potty-training.

I finally uploaded a whole bunch of videos from the last few months. I tried to shorten it down to just a few, but because our far-away family hasn't seen Miss Peanut in months (like 8, or some like ever) there's a lot. Don't feel like you have to watch them, any or all of them. They're just silly stuff, that most parents catch on video, but we think she is super cute!

Animal Sounds

Officer will play coo-coo with her rather than peek-a-boo. You have to kind of listen for it, but I love that she says coo-coo. And Officer taught her to make "poo-poo" faces - lovely I know, but hilarious. If you're offended that she is on the toilet - sorry - don't watch then.

This was outside yesterday. She LOVES to be outside and has explored every inch of our backyard. I need to take her to the park more, but the weather doesn't seem to cooperate for very long, so the backyard has worked for now. She loves to stand/sit/bounce on the cable box - we don't care - we don't have cable and we don't particularly care for the fact that most of our neighbors cable comes through our backyard - maybe they'll move it.