A couple of weeks ago when I did that market research/jury thing, Daddy took her to a nearby park that has a farm. He took some pictures while they were there. It was a cold, dreary day, but she had a great time seeing the animals and playing with pumpkins (even though she couldn't lift them up...after lots of trying, Daddy said!).
We went to the zoo this weekend. They have a petting zoo over in a section we hadn't been to yet. We fed her obsession for animals by letting her pet the goats (poor goats....being chased after by hundreds of small children...probably not very fun!).
She tried to give most of them a hug....without much success.
She plopped herself down next to one and started playing in the straw, and then started poking the goat with the straw! 
This is when we were looking at the fish. I like this one because she was looking up at me, showing me, excitedly, what she had found swimming in the tank. 
She found this tiger outside of the area where they have the actual tigers. The real tigers were sleeping, so she found this tiger much more exciting! 
Just chilling out in her stroller after seeing the tigers....
They had a hay maze set up, which she loved. Here she is in the maze. She didn't care much about the fact that it was a maze...just about picking up the hay...every piece of hay she could find (and it's a hay maze, so there was a lot of it...trust me! It took us a long time to get through that maze!)
A couple of weeks ago on a warm, October day, I took some pictures of her playing outside. Every so often she'll lay down in the grass for no reason and just look up at the sky. I guess she's pondering life, or something equally as deep, but anyway, here she is, my philosophical, pondering daughter!
One of her favorite pasttimes is picking up sticks (and leaves, rocks, acorns, and anything else she can find) and bringing them to me. Notice her excitement....she seriously gets this excited over every single stick! Wouldn't it be nice to be that easily entertained?!
A couple of months ago I bought her some winter boots at a consignment sale I went to. I later found out that they light up--she's the one who discovered that when she started playing with them. She loves these boots. I had to hide them in the closet so she'd stop playing with them, but every time the closet gets left open, she finds her way in there and gets the boots out. One morning a couple of weeks ago she brought them over to me and sat down to try and put them on her feet. It was hilarious to watch her try. I finally gave in and helped her do it. The result was hysterical--PJs and boots (2 sizes too-big-for-her-boots, at that!). If any of you have ever seen pictures of me when I was little, you'll notice that she is the spitting image of me in this picture!! One of these days I'll scan some pictures of me in to compare.
A few days ago I read that instead of finger painting with regular finger paint with children this young, you can have them finger paint with pudding. That way if they try and lick it off their fingers, it's okay. So I bought some chocolate pudding and tried it this weekend. Here are the results.
First she just put her fingers in it and enjoyed the way it felt. I tried showing her how to move it around and make a picture, but she wasn't interested.
Next she decided to bring the plate up to her mouth to test it out. I'm sure glad this was pudding and not paint!
She liked what she found!
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