Hazel's Blog

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Slacker Mom No More!

We bought this bird book at Costco. It is giant and has lots of pictures of birds. And it makes noise. Which goes against my ban of noisy toys. But this book is actually pretty cool. It is not a kids book it has recordings of the actual bird noises. Hazel loves it. Especially the turkey page. And she likes to share it with her blue friend.

The other day we found some sort of flying thing in Hazel's room. It was orange and black and I think it was a moth, Geoff thinks it was a butterfly, at first Hazel called it a spider (see the itsy-bitsy-spider motion in the first picture). We explained that it was a butterfly and now she is fascinated with butterflies and has to point them out in books.

The butterfly let Hazel hold it*. She was mesmerized.

Harry Potter? Nope, that is a "bandaid". Turns out stickers are WAY cheaper than bandaids and when there is no blood they work just as well. And as a handy bonus, I have a calendar at work that has stickers every day. Well, it combines the weekends but still it is a lot of stickers.

You don't get the full picture her, but she is in the baby crib, with a blanket and like four stuffed animals and the wire/bead toy thing and a couple of books. It kept her occupied for a good hour this morning.

This picture looks peaceful, when in fact she was dumping a box of animal crackers in her baby crib. She did, however, pick up most of the crumbs and the dustbuster took care of the rest.