Our little snow angel loved the snow even when some got in her face. Our adventures outside only lasted a few minutes and then we were back inside having more fun.
In this last picture, if you look close or maybe enlarge the picture, you can see Rebecca blowing bubbles. She loves to press her lips together and blow out bubbles. It makes the cutest sound and a lot of drool!
Here is Rebecca playing away in her exersaucer. The buttons she has her hands on plays animal sounds, says the animal name in English and Spanish, and then plays a clip of a classical song. She is much more coordinated with her right hand and because of that her first word might just be "lion." If you look closely, you'll see her upper lip and chin are quite wet. She has had a little cold again and is drooling all the time. When she leans forward to play it's like turning on a faucet! But she is still always happy :) We are both adjusting to life with teaching and daycare. I still feel a little lost in my classroom at times, but I'm making progress each day. I'm pretty sure Rebecca is enjoying daycare and the entertainment of the other kids. I have to go a feed her every day during my lunch break, which is hectic, but I enjoy seeing her and she loves seeing me if only to fill her tummy :)
Another new thing she is doing is eating cereal. I think she likes it because she opens her mouth pretty well for it, but about half of every spoonful still comes back out. She has also learned that she can spin around in her excersaucer and she loves to play with all the toys around her. This last picture is of her snuggled in her car seat staying nice and warm. We love that she travels so well and usually sleeps soundly in the car.
This was obviously Rebecca's first Christmas and I think she enjoyed it pretty well. She actually took an interest in the presents and helped unwrap a few. She especially loves her new toys that talk and play songs.
We hired a man to custom grind some hay so the cows wouldn't be able to sort out the lower quality hay. It turned out really well. Scott helped me haul hay last week and borrowed his skid steer to move them to the grinder. It has knives in the bottom and the round tub rotates to move the hay over the knives. The conveyor hauls the hay out the bottom and up the chute to make a pile. Amazing or not the grinder can grind one per minute. It has a small 500+ horsepower engine on it. Saboss!
As some of you know we have a bull named Dozer; give credit to Sarah for the creative name. Get it. We have a bull dozer. He has a story he has not told us. Not about the fun he has had and we all know that bulls have fun, but about how he lost his nose ring. Yes he had a nose ring, but tonight when I showed Sarah this picture she noticed he didn't anymore.
