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Serenity is 21 Months... Well, several days ago =)

Serenity was sick last week so I'm late getting to this post!  And I didn't take specific pictures, although her Easter pics are fairly close =) 4/6

So many interesting things are happening all the time!  One of my favorite developments is that Serenity is getting even more excited by doing “crafts with Mama!!!”  We have done lots of different projects, including making a suncatcher with tissue paper and contact paper, making sand art using salt shakers to shake the sand onto sticky paper, and doing lots of painting.  Serenity loves to make handprints, and even asked randomly to do this one day so I got out a canvas and some paint and let her go nuts!  She’ll also ask suddenly to “paint blue.”  So I get out my acrylics and let her use a bunch of blues, purples, and whites so she can see what happens when she swirls it around.  The limited color palette is kind of fun because nothing turns brown when she’s playing with it =)  She also asked to paint pink today, so we painted a rock with swirly pinks and yellows, and also made handprints that we’ll turn into a butterfly.  She loves it, and so do I!  Of course, it’s not without drawbacks.  One day we were playing with my watercolors.  Kiley and Ethan were crafting with us too, and they were done with painting long before Serenity.  They needed potty help so I was distracted for one minute, and came back and Serenity had the brush in her mouth.  Ick!  It was mostly just dirty water by that time, very diluted, and it didn’t make her sick or anything, but still.  Painting is going to have to be better supervised for a while.  Although not even that is perfect… one day when we were painting blue Serenity suddenly decided the paintbrush would make a good hairbrush… and so she had blue hair for her bathtime that night.  =)

Sand Painting!

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Using Jello to write and draw shapes in =)  Messy, but delicious fun.

I think that she’s beginning to sing a little!  She used to just fill in the lyrics whenever we stopped singing a song, but now she has the littlest bit of a sing-song sound to it when she does.  It’s cute, her tiny, high pitched little sweet voice.  It’s much higher than her normal speaking voice.  She is definitely learning something in music class, because she's starting to follow directions a little.  For example, when her teacher bangs her sticks on the ground, Serenity will too, and she'll sometimes shake her egg on her head.  Little steps, but so interesting and exciting to see!

We built a huge city on our windowsill =)

She still loves playing with rocks, sticks, and dirt.

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Sleep talking =)  Serenity often mumbles as she’s falling asleep, and I usually wish I could understand more of it as it’s so cute and funny.  A few nights ago when she was sick I took her to my bed, and as she was falling asleep, she said, I love you Mama. =) Two times.  And then she started saying B-I-G big!  P-I-G pig!  Sleep spelling and loving Mama. Soooo sweet.

Picking Dandelions =)  She loves her yellow dresses the most I think, they are the most often requested.

Gardening!!!

Serenity's Swingset