Pretty Girl!

I can't believe how big Dassah is getting!  She will be two in just a couple weeks!

She is so smart.  She often counts to us, "one, two, free," or "six, seben, eight, nine".  She is continually talking to us and frequently repeats everything we say.

First thing in the morning, eating cornbread for breakfast.

Dassah loves to swing on her swing!

There is a train car in the park, and Dassah enjoys climbing the stairs on it.

Close up

Playing with friends in the Dining Hall

Another close up with a sweet smile

"Whee!!! I can do this myself!"

Dassah's becoming quite the reader.  She will frequently pick up a book and read it to herself.

Another picture of her reading.

Helping Mommy make muffins for breakfast.  Dassah likes "nuffims".

We took Dassah's car outside.  She decided it was too difficult to drive on the grass.

A bee.  This day had lots of bees and butterflies on our dandelions.

Dassah, a bee, and a butterfly all in one picture.

Dassah put on her dress all by herself on this day.  Here, she's pretending to be a mountain climber.

"I love my daddy, and my kitty."

Balancing on the bear

"Quick, Mike, grab the camera before she pulls her pigtails out!"

Wild hair day.  A combination of sunscreen and static from the slide.

Playing on the merry-go-round with a friend's ball.

Playing with soap bubbles at the park with a few friends.

Cute little sweethearts.  These two are only a week apart in age.

Pretending to go "night-night" on the trampoline.

The reason I had so many close ups at the start of the post.  Dassah's left eye is half blue, half another color.  I think it's cute.  Can you see it?

My Toddler!

First, some pictures I pulled off of Justine's facebook page.  We went to visit Fort Laramie last weekend and these pictures (except the very first one) are from our trip there.  They should have appeared at the end of the post, but for some reason they showed up first.

Blogger was starting to frustrate me, too.  I tried to load pictures 6 or 7 times before I finally got them to appear in a post.

 

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I love this picture.

Climbing the stairs on some old officer quarters at Fort Laramie.

Standing in front of some ruins.

We were taking pictures of the cannons and other weaponry in this building when Dassah suddenly slipped between the bars!  We caught her before she got out of reach, though, and she slipped back through easily enough.  What you can't see in this picture is there is a pit not 10 feet away that was probably 6 foot deep, showing an older building on which this building had been built.

Our little "jailbird" posing with Aunt Justine.

The rest of these pictures are from my camera...  

 

Dassah loves to play on the keyboard.  She is also starting to like having bows in her hair.

We threw Justine a surprise birthday party.

My smiley girl!  So happy!

Probably Dassah's favorite meal.  She asks for it often, "Noodles, peas, carrots."

Wearing a pretty dress.  She's playing with a baby Jesus from a plastic Nativity we keep in the living room.

Rista Cat was sitting on this stump and Dassah wanted to sit beside Kitty.  As soon as I pulled the camera out, though, the cat jumped down.

"I'll get down now."

Picnic in the yard for a Saturday lunch.  So much fun!

"Here, Mommy, I ate the good stuff.  You can have the crust."

We dressed her in her swimsuit to run through the sprinkler, but she got scared and didn't want to get wet.

So cool in sunglasses and a hat!

Sometimes we go into Dassah's room after naptime and discover every toy in the room on her bed.  She likes to sleep with company apparently.

The official taste tester.  The sippy has "juice" and the water bottles have milk and water.  The toilet paper roll, she just stood up there with them just because.

Dassah loves to sit on stools.