New Winnie the Pooh Book Review

Since my mom pointed out that the new Pooh book was out, and I was COMPLETELY unaware, I have since stumbled across this article / review and felt it was my duty to share!

If you had an entire Winnie the Pooh room in your house, you'd share too!

Winnie-the-Pooh's Back, But Who Invited The Otter? - ParentDish

Puddle jumping

puddle jump, originally uploaded by homanhouse.

So much water. At the end, she is actually bending down to WRING OUT her dress.

Splish Splash

after the rain kids music, originally uploaded by homanhouse.

It is crazy. It has rained and rained and rained here. Almost four straight days now of light rain. It is nice. We need the rain. For once, it is rain without tons of lightening and thunder (some, enough to reset all my clocks twice) but still -- a generally gray cloud light rain.

However, a whole weekend of rain makes the kid a bit restless (crazy wall climbing is more like it!) So when it lightened up for a bit on Sunday, and Megan asked if she could play in the water and rain, I said "Of course!" I think it was more like, "yes yes yes! please get OUT of the house for a while and run lots!" "oh yeah -- and take the dog too!" Zoey got led on several laps around the cul de sac before the kids abandoned her to splish in the water.

She must have run like this for about an HOUR straight with only a few water breaks!

Needless to say, bedtime was fantastic! I don't care about the dripping wet laundry and the extra bath for the day. She tired herself out and quit climbing the walls!

Grandpa's 75th at Texas Roadhouse!

ALH, originally uploaded by homanhouse.

They brought the saddle for the birthday person. Megan was mesmerized. She thought Grandpa was quite silly really. And mostly, she continued to remind me that I goofed and didn't have birthday cake. Sorry Grandpa, cake next time.

Watching Swan Princess

Watching Swan Princess, originally uploaded by homanhouse.

Megan is obsessed with the Swan Princess. She has seen it countless times. She knows every word to every song. Often I hear her playing with toys pretending that one is Odette and the other is Derek. She can really quote their lines back and forth even if it was from one glitter shaker to another (which it was!) She told me the pink glitter was Odette. Of course...

Here, she insisted that Grandpa watch the ever exciting movie with her, and Grandpa watched Megan sing almost all the words!

Obsessed I tell you.

yesterday, she came home from school, and complained because Collin wouldn't play with her. A little more discussion revealed that really Collin wouldn't play Derek. Megan wanted to be Odette and have Collin be Derek. Oh dear oh dear. I mean she is only 3!

A visit from Grandpa

ALH (2), originally uploaded by homanhouse.

Since it was Grandparent's day, Megan's school had a special breakfast for the kids and their grandparents if they had a grandparent to bring to school. So Grandpa came in and spent a few days with Megan, and went to breakfast with her.

Coincidentally, it was Grandpa's 75th Birthday, so we had birthday dinner, and family over!

Megan had a blast and can't wait till next time! Here are a sampling of some of the pictures!

Bats and sleeping

We have been discussing recently about animals and sleeping. Megan is fascinated that some animals (like cows) sleep standing up. She stands and snores to pretend.

One of the books had bats, and so we discussed this one night as well. Then the other day, Chris and Megan had a discussion that went something like this.

Megan
Chris

Cows sleep standing up!
That's right, and how do bat's sleep?
Bat's sleep hanging upside down.
Why do bat's sleep upside down?
Because they don't have any beds!
[pause]
lots of hidden giggling from Mom & Dad.

Megan of course is completely serious. Her answer was simply matter of fact.

The stuff you learn!

Sometimes Chris and I sit and giggle at the things that you have to learn growing up. Falling off of a bed, for example. I sleep all night in a king size bed or a super single cot, and of course, I don't fall off. But I have definite memories of frequently rolling off the bed and smashing my head as a kid. It is one of those "life learnings".

Today, we found a new one in the car on the way home from Amarillo. Megan got cranky about half way. She didn't like her movie, wanted a different one (and a different one...and a different one). She was pouty, grumpy and generally a 3-yr old grouch. After about 20 minutes she started yelling in a frustrated manner about something. I asked her what, and she said (irritatedly) "MY EYES KEEP CLOSING!!!"

I explained that she was tired, and just needed to rest, and she said "I don't want to take a nap!" Then again, the frustrated "Aarrgh! My eyes keep closing!!"

"Megan" I said, "When you get really tired, sometimes your eyes close. You will feel much better if you turn off the movie and take a nap." She pondered this, turned off the movie player, and 30-seconds later was asleep.

So THAT'S WHY my eyes start to close, huh? I guess I, too, learned that at some point in life!

What are the other "life lessons"?

Early Photography Practice

Rosemarys Wedding (22), originally uploaded by homanhouse.

Megan got a little expert practice at Rosemary's Wedding

Make up Again

P8090003, originally uploaded by homanhouse.

I should have noted that I never did recover the eyeshadow in question. I wasn't sure where she found it at, and it always wanders off in these situations. So after Saturday night's scrubbing, I was surprised Sunday when, after lunch, Megan had once again put on make up. This time she was careful to tell me that she only put it on her eyes -- I had chided her that it was EYEshadow, after all.

Kind of hard to be mad when this cute face is the culprit..... But at least Chris found the offending tube of eyeshadow base and it has moved out of reach now.