She has pigtails, her hair is so long!
Marin has two accessories she wears almost everyday, her backpack and a pair of goggles. She has also fallen in love with a baby doll that she likes to haul around by the leg, or wrapped up in a blanket aka "bainty".
This is a little trip Marin and I took with our friend's Stephanie and Parker to Melbourne. We took the kids to the zoo and the beach. It was a lot of fun and we got to visit with our good friends who live just a few blocks away from the beach!
Marin loves to paint... her whole body, never the paper. She really is having a good time, this is just her "stop taking pictures of me" face.
Todd, Marin and I got to take a little weekend trip to the Panhandle over Spring Break. Marin wore her first little bikini!Having a toddler is so different than our little baby. Toddlers have opinions, and let you know what they are. I was writing down Marin's words the other day and realized that most of them are somehow related to what she wants (e.g. please, more, milk, yogurt) or animals (her current favorite is turtle) but of all her words her very favorite thing to talk or sing about is the MOON and STARS ("moony and tars"). I am not sure I'm ready for a kid who has a different opinion than me, who is not always along for the ride, but wanting to take the steering wheel herself. We are well into learning about discipline, and addressing her wild streak. We would like to believe that we can use what Dr. Sears calls gentle discipline, but is it really possible?
On Tuesday while Todd was trying to work from home, Marin was pulling just about every toy out of every basket she could and running around the house singing and dancing and yelling and throwing stuff everywhere. Finally Todd walked over to Marin picked her up and said "Marin you have a wild streak in you that you need to figure out what to do with" I was laughing from the bedroom as he said this because "wild streak" was an understatement at the time. Why are toddlers so loud and crazy? Its almost like she is saying "hey world I'm not a baby anymore! Here I come". Right now as I am typing this she is sitting on the floor under me putting a bucket on her head and yelling. Who ever thought wearing a bucket on your head could be so fun and joyous? She does, that's for sure. She's having the time of her life just wearing the bucket. Sometimes I think, adults have really boring lives, if we could all just sit under the table once in a while with a bucket on our heads yelling maybe we would enjoy life a bit more. Oh now she is trying to put a puzzle together with the bucket on her head, and sing, she's done yelling, now she's singing (I think about yogurt).
