New Clothes, Good Friends, and Fun in the Tub

It's still pretty cold outside, but I couldn't resist putting Allary in some of her new summer clothes today. I told her we should take some pictures of her cute outfit and she said "Okay, but I have to sit on the chair." and these are the photos I ended up with. She cracks me up.



It ended up being quite the photo shoot.




Allary fights her nap every day. I have started letting her just have quiet time where she has to find something quiet to do either in her bedroom or her playroom. Some days, she does okay without a nap. Then there are other days where I come in to check on her during quiet time and this is what I find.
Yesterday I met up with some of my friends from our previous neighborhood. We took the kids to a fun place with lots of fun equipment to jump on. They had a really good time and it was great for me to get to catch up with good friends. In the picture are Caleb, Abby, and Allary. I don't really think about how small Ally is for her age until I see her around other kids her age.


I mentioned once or twice that we would go swimming with Megan when the weather gets warm enough. Allary has been asking me over and over when she can go swim. It seems like the warm weather is never coming and so I guess her bath is as close to swimming as she's going to get for now. She always wants me to fill up the tub even more because she "needs to swim." I've never seen a kid who loves the water like she does. She puts her head under the water as it comes out of the tap, she lays down in the water on her back, she splashes like crazy, and she pours buckets of water right on top of her head. Sometimes I think she's going to drown herself.