Happy Clowns

I bought these clown costumes for one dollar at my friend's garage sale.  Ella and Bea put them on and ran around in circles for about a half hour, laughing hysterically. It was adorable.  All I need are a couple of red noses. 

Daily Tea

This tea pot was my grandmother's and the tea set I got for my bridal shower in Tokyo.  It's so special to use these with Bea.

Bea and I have a tea party just about every day.  It's our "special time".  She is getting really good at pouring the tea and gets really excited about all the "tiny food" I put on the plates and for the little cups, plates and spoons we use.  Just yesterday I tried to pour out of a new teapot and spilled it all over my plate.  Bea told me that she knew how to do it without spilling and that she would do it for me next time.  She felt so good about her tea pouring skills:)  Even though Bea is hard right now, I'm really looking forward to her growing up a little more so she can be more capable and we can enjoy more activities together.   

 

Field Trips

Henry pretending he's eating Bea with his Mouth Man shirt

Just kidding! I love you little fox

The Fox and the catch of the day

 I'm trying to do some school with Bea.  She never learned her alphabet when she was a baby so she and Clementine are learning it together.  I make everything I can into some sort of school activity.  This week we took two field trips, one to the new Natural History Museum of Utah and another to the local Aquarium.  She loved both. 

Time to go!

At the NHMU she dressed up as a fox or something and caught fish to put into her backpack.  Henry was dressed up as a hunter to catch her.  It was really fun.  We talked about bugs and learned the names of trees and bugs and spiders.  We love that new museum. 

Bea looks so big in her pig tails

I also have to say that Bea knows a lot of the Dinosaur names.  She watches Dinosaur Train often and she now knows more dinosaurs that I know.  Smart little thing!  She's constantly telling strangers that Dinosaurs died a long time ago with a really sad face.  haha. 

Don't these look like fake fish! They were huge!

She also has learned quite a few of her letters.  I make her write them every day and we learn a new one every couple weeks.  It's slow going but that's what I get for waiting so long to teach her the alphabet!