Boots 'n Bubbles

Caroline loves shoes. Every morning it's a hide-and-go-seek hunt for my shoes because Caroline likes to go in my closet, try on several pairs, and clomp around the house with a satisfied grin on her face. That's often accompanied by "I did it!" We hear that a lot these days, and I try to encourage it, something about building your child's self-confidence blah blah blah psychobabble.

Anyway, she recently discovered her true Texas roots.

Although, it can be a bit hard to walk in boots that are 10 sizes too big for you.

Now for the bubbles part of this post ... we love blowing bubbles. Caroline used to like to watch me blow them, but now she has to be the one blowing. She can't quite get the idea of holding the wand out a bit from her lips, though; she always sticks it right on her mouth and then the film of soap breaks, of course, eventually frustrating her enough that she hands it to me ... I demonstrate proper bubble-blowing technique ... she takes it away and promptly sticks the wand on her lips again ... she gets frustrated and hands it to me ... repeat ad nauseum.

Out For a Walk

There's no real point to this post, just a shameless picture display. Caroline & I went out after supper last Friday to see what treasures we could find to bring home. We ended up with 2 leaves, a rock, and a roly-poly. We also met another little girl about Caroline's age being pulled in a wagon by her dad. It was nice to meet another little kid in the neighborhood, although who knows when we'll see them again.




It's often hard to get a close-up picture of Caroline because she always tries to grab for the camera ("My cam'ra!") Her face is so expressive and I think she's so cute when she furrows those eyebrows.

Life Is Sweet

Ahhh, one of life's greatest milestones: First time to lick the beaters.

Obviously, Caroline picked up on the concept: neatness goes out the window if you want to get the full experience of licking the beaters (and get all the batter off)

I think this one was a hit! Daddy was outside for this one ... next time might pose a problem if he's around -- there are 3 of us and only 2 beaters. Maybe he can lick the bowl instead.

Easter!

OK finally with the Easter pictures ... I had some Blogger technical difficulties. Anyway, this year was colllllld ... good thing Caroline's dress had a cute little matching jacket!

Getting ready for the hunt.

First Easter egg hunt!

The Borings, saying cheese.

My First Petting Zoo

Caroline's friend Ainsley (daughter of my college roommate, Leslie) had her first birthday party the Saturday before Easter. Ainsley had a petting zoo come to her house, but nobody anticipated that it would snow the day before Easter -- requiring the pen to be set up in the garage instead of the backyard. But everyone had a great time anyway! Caroline talked about the "animals" for days before the party, but when she actually got into the pen with them, she was a little skittish. But she came around, and by the end it was hard to get her to leave. Given the choice between the animals and a cupcake, though, she chose the cupcake. She's our daughter for sure.

Bunny!

Chicks!

Goat!

Here's a picture just to show a full-length of her dress that Granny Ruth got her for Christmas. It is sooo cute.

Back in Business!

We've got a new camera! That's right people the Borings are going visual again... Which may or may not be a good thing.

Please know that even though we have a fancy new digital camera, we will not forget our humble, boring beginning. Here's a little taste for those of you who have their doubts...

As you can see we're still upholding our esteemed tradition.

Hey... The yard work starts here!

We spent this past weekend doing "fun things" in the yard. We're actually quite proud of ourselves. We cleaned up and refined a flower bed in our backyard and cleaned up the leaves, weeds, and "doggie land mines" in the yard. It was a great time... I know you all wish you were there to help.

Unfortunately because of our camera situation there are no pictures.

Well Miss Caroline was a tremendous help. She help her mother take countless numbers of decorative rocks out of the flower bed and put them into the wheelbarrow. She really was fun to watch... Especially when she decided to clean the rocks off by licking them! I know most of you were waiting to find out the talent she got from her father... And it's rock licking! I'm so proud.

Now I don't recall ever licking rocks... But I find it hard to believe that anyone will think that Miss Caroline got that talent from a mother who went to two different universities on full academic scholarships. Needless to say, I think ol' Mommy & Daddy will be sending checks to some institution of higher learning (i.e. Technical Institute or Texas Tech) on Miss Caroline's behalf.

Miss Caroline was also a great help at watering the redone flower bed. So much so that she didn't want to do anything else. That's right, she was going to pour water on something or lick rocks. And it was up to Mommy & Daddy to decide which...

So we did what all great parents would do in that situation... We let her lick rocks.