New Play House & Slide

She likes to tell you when to come in the play house and when you should leave.  She tries to get Tito (our dog) to go in.  He doesn't listen to her at all.  It is funny to hear her bossing him around.  I have helped coax him into the playhouse.  He will stay for a couple minutes then push the door open and leave.

Playing in the play house for the first time.  She didn't like it at all ;)

Last spring/summer my parents found a great deal on a swing set for Jillian.  It has places for 4 swings.  Now that she is bigger she really loves to slide so we added a slide addition to the existing swing set.

After it was done I mentioned to Jillian to say thank you to her papaw.  She must have said it like 20 times at least!  "Thank you papaw.. thank you papaw"  She kept saying it until he would respond your welcome.  Then a few seconds later she would start again.  As she was going down the slide she would get to the bottom and say "yeah papaw!!" followed by clapping.  It was too dark out by the time the slide was done for video so I don't have any of that on video, but it was very cute.

4-24-12 slide addition to her swing set complete.  She loves it! Thanks Papaw!!!

(4-25-12) Jillian going down her new slide.  

1st Bike Ride 4-2-12

The kid/baby seat was just added to my bike and we got it back yesterday.  So we had to try it out!  We have had this helmet for Jillian for about a year.  Last spring/summer she wanted nothing to do with it being put on her head.  She did just fine last night.  I'm sure it helped that mommy, her meemaw and papaw were all wearing helmets too.

 Getting her helmet strap sized so she can't just pull it off.  It does have a very nice anti pinch device under the chin strap.  Especially since this one is ticklish on her neck so she was squirming around and opening her mouth.   A bit of a challenge to get it latched under these circumstances. 

Jillian all set to go with her helmet.  What you may not be able to see are the pink bunnies on her helmet.  

Ready to go.  It felt a little odd at first with the extra weight on the back.  As we pulled out of the drive I was told she had a huge smile on her face.  She held onto her little "handle bars" the whole time.  We took a loop around the people trail and got close enough to the airport to see a big plane, which she enjoyed.  We did also stop by a park so she could play.  We didn't have a lot of time to stop since it was getting dark, but she did not fuss at all when we put her back in her seat to head home.  

My mom took this video of us riding last night, while she was also on her bike.

1st Zoo Trip

Took Jillian to the Zoo for the first time back on 3-10-12.  She LOVED it!

 Checking out the "kitty".  With the big glass windows you could get really up close with the tigers!

 "smiling" for daddy, since he didn't come along

Two tired kiddos after checking out all the animals at the Zoo.

I didn't get many pictures since I was too busy making sure to keep track of my little one.  If you ask her what she saw at the Zoo she will tell you: Elephant, Baby Elephant, Giraffe routinely.  If you ask what the Giraffe was doing she will tell you he was walking around and eating, which he was.  

We did also take them to the Dolphin show.  She liked it as long as the fish were performing.  The Dolphins were a little less than cooperative during the show that day so there was a lot of time when they people were just talking about them that wasn't all the entertaining.