March 13, 2009

Arica is having a lot of fun in Wisconsin.
Besides playing in the snow, she is being
creative with the kitchen set. She spends
a lot of time playing "in the kitchen!"
One day, she took out the shelves in the
oven and tried to crawl into it herself and
close the door. She tried this a number of
times before giving up. If she would have
taken the shelves out of the refrigerator
next to her, she would have fit inside. Lots
of hours are spent playing with the kitchen
toys.





Arica loves the swing set in the back yard.
Here is a picture of her after she crawled
through the tunnel. Sometimes as she comes
out, Toby, our dog is at the end of the tunnel
to greet her and she giggles. She is wearing a
pair of grandma's warm mittens because it
is too cold here for her little mittens. They
are easier to get on and we can pull then way
up over her jacket sleeves and the don't come off.









She also enjoys the slide and the
swing. The sand in the sandbox
was frozen so we took some of her
toys out one day so she could play
with them in the snow. She was
playing very nicely. She all of a
sudden got distracted. I didn't
notice at first but she climbed upon
the bridge going up to the slide and
then crawled up to the platform. She thought this was pretty cool. Whenever we used the slide, I would lift her up to the top of the slide and then she would slide down. So she has never seen the bridge before. Once on top of the platform, she wanted to slide down the slide head first.
I helped her to sit on her butt and go down the slide.