Peanut Butter Hair

June gets snacks in the car to help keep her occupied during the commute to daycare.  Today's choice of Ritz peanut butter snack crackers was not a wise one on my part.  I should have known there would be peanut butter everywhere as June currently likes to put food in and take food out of her mouth repeatedly, and prefers licking/sucking on food to just chewing it.

I don't think she actually ate any of the three crackers I handed to her.  Instead she smeared peanut butter in her hair and in doing so pulled out a few of her hairs, which she noticed immediately and then whined about having hair stuck to her hands.  Rubbing the peanut butter in her hair did a surprisingly good job of cleaning off her fingers, haha!  When we got to daycare I used a baby wipe to de-crust her hair.  Thank goodness for Costco and their affordable, industrial-sized boxes of baby wipes.

We will stick to less sticky snack options in the car from now on :)

Staycation

This turned into a long post!  Pictures at the end :)

My parents went to Glacier National Park recently and since my mom cares for June during the week I took 7 days off work while they were away.  We had a really nice time together.  We went to lunch with friends a couple days, spent time with Abbey and cousin Henry a couple times, went to a splash pad, went on morning walks with Rosco, and played in the yard.

June is a happy girl. She loves exploring and pointing at everything she sees and gets really excited about what you and I would consider trivial.  It's really neat to see that; it makes me stop and appreciate the simple things that before her were usually just a part of the background of everyday life.  On our walks she would laugh at Rosco walking beside her, babble and point at lots of things, and squeal and say "birr!" every time she saw a bird.  When we went to the grocery store she said "nana" as soon as she saw the pile of bananas in the produce aisle so I gave her one to carry as I wheeled her through the store.

Her communication skills have really taken off in the past few weeks.  She can now sign the following:
-eat
-milk
-all done
-please
-more
-book
I'm sure she would sign more things if we taught them to her.

She can say (some words are more clear than others but we know what she's saying):
-daddy
-bird (birrr)
-book (buhh)
-all done (dah-dah)
-pasta (kahpkah)
-cheese (not even gonna try to use phonetics here)
-nana (for Nana, my mom and for the fruit)

She knows where her hair, eyes, nose, ears, hands, feet, belly and tongue are.  If you ask her where her tongue is she sticks it out as far as she can, which is pretty far.  Me and Justin can both touch our tongues to our noses so June has inherited a long tongue.

I keep June in a onesie pretty much all the time so her belly doesn't stick out of her clothes and also so she can't mess with her diaper.  At night, when we are getting her ready for bed and she's stripped down to her diaper she loves to run around.  She loves the freedom from clothes and immediately rubs her belly, which got us started saying "Get in my belly!" which is a quote from an Austin Powers movie.  Now when we say it she rubs her hands all over her belly with a huge smile on her face.  It cracks us up!

Next week is the Johnson County Fair and we plan to take June one evening right after work.  I think she will like to see all of the animals.  Hopefully the weather will be a little less stifling next week. It's going to be awful here for the next few days.  I'll leave you with some pictures from the past couple of weeks.

Checking out animals at a petting zoo.  

It looks like she's waving but really she's about to aggressively pet Rosco. You can tell he's bracing for it.  

She loves bananas!

A quick picture before having lunch with Aunt Abbey

"Helping" mommy put groceries in the pantry.