Monday, October 26, 2015

Puzzles and Pretend

Over the last few weeks Ruthie has been in puzzle heaven. She has mastered a 48 piece puzzle with no help whatsoever and I find it so awesome to watch her piece it together all on her own! She never tires of it either, as soon as it's together she smashes it up and starts all over!
Another favorite game of late is where she has me pretend to go to sleep (she tucks me in and says 'sweet dreams my darling') then she 'makes' me breakfast and wakes me up to eat it (I have to make sure to stretch and yawn).Then it's her turn and we repeat, repeat, repeat. We make each other lots of different breakfasts; pancakes with syrup, scrambled eggs with orange juice, smoothies, French toast, sometimes she even makes me coffee :-)
We also pretend play a lot of doctor office visits with lots of shots and pretend play library and shopping at the market.
This imagination of hers grows daily and it's pretty darn cute!

Monday, October 5, 2015

Fall Morning at the Orchard

Saturday was a beautiful fall morning for visiting our favorite local apple orchard- Wilson's! We rode the tractor to the ripe rows of apples and Ruthie ate her weight in apples picked right from the tree. Then we enjoyed apple and pumpkin donuts and apple turnovers with cinnamon ice cream. Mmmm, heaven on earth!