Alice playing in her red "tuck" on a day when clothes just weren't on the agenda. This girl hates to get dressed, though she's quite practical when it comes to protecting her feet.
Close-up of the babe!
Her first skinned knee. She didn't cry a whit, but she's been trying to wipe the scab off ever since:
Friday evening we set up the bounce house. I stumbled upon one at a garage sale last week. It will be a perfect activity to break up the winter doldrums. It's small enough to fit in our living room or our garage, yet large enough to accommodate 3-4 toddlers and/or preschoolers at once. We had the Jarvies over for dinner to celebrate Marianne's birthday. Alice loved jumping around and Spencer loved smashing his face against the mesh.
Saturday morning, a friend from our church put on a tour of the Dairy Cattle Research Facility at the U of I. He's working on a PhD, but we were all interested in the cows. I was shocked to realize how big Holsteins really are (Alice is as tall as their heads are long) and that each cow has a name. I found Suzanne, but couldn't identify an Alice in time. The adults were a little shy. The calves were curious.
Alice's 3 favorite things about the dairy facility tour: 1) the crab apples on the ground out front, 2) the water buckets in the calves' pens, and 3) the fountain of urine she witnessed streaming from a cow's rear end.
And finally, a little movie clip from last weekend. Alice and her cousin Will play around after a Sunday brunch with family:
[flv width="400" height="300"]http://evansfamily.powweb.com/movies/2008/AliceWillCars.flv[/flv]
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