Another weekend on the mountian

Very lovely day on saturday.  The snow conditions were a bit firm but still fun.  Today was very cold but SNOWING!!!  Took the morning off,  even though the little one went out for a full day.  We enjoyed lunch with her and my awesome in-laws.

Little C Skiing

OK it's been ages since I've posted.  But here are our latest adventures.

We spent Christmas vacation week learning how to teach little C to ski with a local ski area, Cochrans.  We were in a 4 day program, with a group of other children (ages 3-5) and their parents.  We had 3 or so instructors and got 1 run with them a day.  The first day we worked with an instructor towords the end of the day and they told us we could go ahead and ski backwards with little C skiing on her own with a tip lock, but that the next day we would work on taking the tip lock off.  Little C totally got the wedge and putting her skis on edge.
The second day we took the tip lock off after 2-3 runs our run with the instructor had us working on just playing follow the leader with little C, no more skiing backwards in front of her.
Day 3 there was no run with an instructor - nothing else to teach her, just log ski time.
Day 4 - More ski time, we took 1 run through cones with the instructor - not really educational, just fun.  Little C was skiing with an Olympic gold medalist!!!!

Little C's stamina has increased and she shows a lot of control when on the slope, she still needs to learn the fine points of skiing etiquette and responsibilities.  But she is doing great.  We plan on checking out Cochrans a few more times this season for their lollipop races - just so she can try them out. 

And now for the photos & Video.

Potty Update - The Last

We are potty trained, nighttime and daytime.  We've been potty trained for some time, I think I realized we were totally done when little C started using public bathroom stall all by herself, and daycare sent home her nap-time pull-ups, which she hasn't used for about a month or a little more.

So here it is a big step in her development and I can't really pin point a time or date when it actually happened, except to say about 2 months ago.

105

We've been very busy and little C is growing so fast.  We've had a winter full of skiing, family and holidays.

We've finally bought a Wii and the Wii fit plus and it's a very fun way to be more active.  Plus on those dark cold winter nights, rainy afternoons and while dinner is cooking we can play together as a family.  Little C loves bowling, likes golf and is currently enjoying biking on the Fit and our new skiing game, and like real life she seems to like the lift ride as much or possibly more that the skiing.

Little C first played the Wii bowling at her grandparents house in January, and she has been steadily improving.  Tonight she and big C played and while big C had a mediocre game little C got her best score yet, 105.

We love watching her learn and grow and improve.  She is growing into an amazing little girl.

A LONG overdue post and updates

So much has been happening and we've found ourselves very busy.

Recently little C found some shopping bags with pictures of the Asian Longhorned Beetle on it -and she need to know about it so we looked them up on the computor, she is fasinated she tries to say their name and comes very close - and she also labeled them monsters.  That was after big C told her tha tif they weren't stopped we wouldn't have maple syrup - she was horrified by that thought.

Little C has gotten more into doll play recently and has been caring for her baby.
Most recently she has been asking to carry her baby on her back or tummy - when I talk about when I used to carry her that way she seems to remember, which is very cool.  The picture to the left is one I snapped when she spontaneously sat down in her rocking chair to nurse her baby.

Snow has finally arrived and we anxiously await our first ski trip, Mad River opened this weekend - but I had the flu so there was no skiing, little C did help shovel the steps and went shopping with big C for a snowblower.  She then got to watch excitedly as the deck got cleared off.

Potty Progress

 

We've expeirenced day two, in a row, of being dry at school.  Yeah!!!!!

For every one who hasn't heard we spent a pretty bad week at school and big C and I seriously considered changing little C's daycare, there was so much tension between little C and her teacher  Little C's potty learning took a nose dive at school, which we attributed to the attitude the teacher was having.  1.5 weeks into little C's training at school and the teacher was claiming that little C peep on the floor on purpose and was sending home angry notes regarding little C's attitude and potty issues - things not developmentally appropriate.    Thank fully a meeting with the director and the teacher has brought around change for the good so far.

Last weeks disaster seems to be behind us and everyone attitude seems much improved at school.

It is nice to see and hear happy reports from little C's teacher and we are glad to see the progress.

We took our camping weekend as a break, little C was both in underwear and diapers equally as she choose.  We end up with a 4 day weekend, Friday was spent home getting ready to camp and in my case sleeping after a very sleepless night.  The break seems to be exactly what little C needed.

Labor Day Camping

We had perfect weather for camping - ok so it was a little chilly at night (40 degrees one night).  But the days got warm enough for swimming.

We camped at a lean-to site this time and that worked out well, it provided a great place for little C to play.  It even served as a stage for her to sing twinkle twinkle little star for us.  It was so very cute.

We rented a boat saturday and a canoe sunday, little C loved both, and while in the boats we had to sing Row Row Daddy's boat (or Mommy's...)

Little C even got to help paddle the canoe and she got to sit up in the front seat all by herself while daddy paddled her in.

We brought our bikes with us, all of ours along with little C's bike trailer and we took a few bike rides around the campground and little C and I "rode" our bikes together.  She got really quick after that even though I was going as slow as I could.  She also learned to lift her legs up while she's coasting - Lots of progress.

FRiday night after we got set up, we wandered down to the boat launch and found to ducks swimming around.  Little C decided to go swimming and was soon bossing the ducks around - they ignored her except for the times they thought she had food.

This was a great way to close out our camping season and we are looking forward to next year and having at least 4 trips. 

Photos from the trip including to little campsite visitors :)  They were much cuter than the visitor we had last time (a skunk).