You call this a pool

I am laughing as I type this particular piece as I know my sister is going to give me grief. While we were in Corpus, Scarlett wanted to swim. My sister said she had a blow up pool, well, this is not exactly what Scarlett had in mind. She lasted all of 5 minutes. Her face says it all. She was disappointed.

Indoor stroller derby

We had friends over for dinner last week and toward the end of the evening. Gerry started something. You see, one day Scarlett wanted to be pushed in her doll's stroller and so Gerry did it except he decided he would run while pushing her and the rest is history.

As it turned out Scarlett decided she wanted a push in the doll stroller and then that's when it all began - Alexa and Jenna had to have a turn. We admit it was pretty fun watching their faces of excitement as they rounded the corner. Ah, to be a kid.

Corpus trip

Scarlett and I took a road trip to Corpus to see my family. We stopped in Austin to pick up my sister and niece (she's three weeks younger than Scarlett). We spent the night in Austin and then headed out the next morning. All I have to say is thank goodness for DVD players. For the most part, both girls did great.

Scarlett with Grandma (my mom) and her cousin, Allison

Me, Scarlett, Grandma, Allison, my sister - Lucy and her daughter, Megan. It was hard getting the young ones to cooperate with pictures. My poor mom closed her eyes.

Evening and morning routines

Most nights when putting Scarlett to bed she doesn't fall asleep right away. She usually starts with a little fussing after we leave her room, but it only lasts all of 30 seconds before her tune changes and decides to sing which is so cute to hear on the monitor.

In the morning, she also will end up singing as well. One morning she added something new which made us laugh because of the tone of her voice. (listen to video)

This one she is singing a song she learned in Mother's Day Out. "Pie, pie (this is her little lamb called Lammie Pie), jump up and down, jump up and down...now sit down. Ball, ball, jump up and down....

This is Scarlett singing in the morning after waking up at the top of her lungs. She's singing "Ring Around the Rosies" but changed the words a bit. "Ring around the nina (as in little baby girl in Spanish)...." then followed with "ring around the mommy, mommy...."

After her song she decided to call out for Mommy and Daddy.

Our little fish

Scarlett has been in swim lessons nonstop since she was six months old. A few weeks ago while swimming at our neighbors house she decided to wanted to swim underwater and from that point on, she wants to be in the pool ALL the time. I'm sharing photos of our little fish swimming and even a video from one of her swim lessons.

Sleeping in her "big girl" bed

Scarlett is officially sleeping in her "big girl" bed. We're going on a week and half straight and not once has she asked to sleep in her crib. She has done very well and sleeps all night like she usually did in her crib. The first week, she didn't get out of bed. She waited until we came to get her, but now she realized she can get out of bed and had a few episodes:

• turning off her humidifier which was on the floor, but taking a step forward by trying to pick it up and spilling the water all over the carpet
• being caught carrying off her fan (used for white noise) while it was still plugged in

I moved the items up on shelves, but that didn't stop her. She figured out she could use her step stool in her bathroom. I came in just as she was bringing it out of her bathroom. She wanted to turn off the humidifier. I explained to her that I would help her by picking her up so she can turn it off herself, but apparently that went in one ear and out the other. The next day she figured out to open the cabinet under the shelves to step up on and turn off the humidifier. She wants to do it herself.

She now comes out of her room in the morning, but because she is such a talker, we know beforehand when she is awake so it's no surprise to us when she walks in.

Rolly polly frenzy

A few weeks ago we discovered rolly pollies in our front yard. I don't know what I was thinking when I told Scarlett that they tickled when they walked on your hand because that was the start of the rolly polly craze. She became obsessed with picking them up every time we went outside and well, since she discovered rolly pollies, we were outside A LOT!

There was a Dora episode where she used a magnifying glass to look at the bugs and before long we had a magnifying glass for her to check out the rolly pollies and the ants and any other bug that we might have come across.

I have since had pest control come by and spray our yards for ants because we had tons of them and I know it was because of all the rolly pollies living in our yard. I guess I didn't realize that it would also kill off the rolly pollies. Scarlett now searches hard to find at least one rolly polly, but to no avail. One day as we were outside a bird was in the yard and she saw him eat something and I told her the bird ate the rolly polly. What was I thinking? She was immediately upset and started to cry because the bird ate the rolly polly (which I know it did). As any great mother would do, I tried to convince her that the bird did not eat the rolly polly and that it ate an ant just to calm her down.

I know, I know. Crazy. I have since discovered that we can go the park and play with the rolly pollies there and she's happy. Good grief!

Video at end - compliments of "Aunt Shell" aka Michelle. Not only was Scarlett excited about the rolly pollies, but the ants, too. Even I make a debut in the video.