Bottle Time!

Helping

Mama finally put Stella's interest in the dryer to good use; here she is putting wet clothes into the dryer --she did a great job.

Negotiating Stairs

Stella has been working on stairs. She mostly negotiated this trip down with success. Right after I snapped this shot, she fell off the last step and Sean gave me a look that said, 'what kind of a mother are you'
;)

A Day Out

Going visiting at the Three Bears' House and the house of the Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe.

And the dish ran away with the spoon.

'kit-ty'

We took a visit to a nearby attraction: Clark's Eli Oak Farm

A petting farm and novelties rescued from an old Howard County landmark: The Enchanted Forest.

Honestly, Stella is a little young to really appreciate such trips, the donkey and the little goat were 'kitty', the most interesting thing in the pig pen was the ball the pig was pushing around, and while strolling the grounds Stella was most interested in: licking the mushroom statues (hmm...I sense trouble in her teenage years), making friends with picnicking patrons (little beggar) and scaring me half to death by putting a big rock in her mouth and then dropping it in the grass so that I couldn't find it for a good long while and seriously thought she had swallowed it...

We'll have to go back again when she is a few years older!

Princesses of Summer

Miss Finley

Happy Father's Day!

* Thanks to friend Vicki of 3 wheels design for this fantabulous idea (getting it done with a mobile 1 year old was like herding cats though!!). Sean is getting a framed version of this (first photo).