Swimming lessons

Sarah started swimming lessons today with her Daddy. Pictures will follow in a few weeks. Apparently she wasn't sure of the whole plan and clung to Dale like a proverbial leach as soon as they stepped out on the pool deck. About half way through the lesson, though, she warmed up to the whole thing. She's still not sure about putting her face in the water but I'm sure she'll get there.

She seems to be going through a bit of a language explosion this week. She's mimicking everything we say and it's starting to sound almost right. She said 'mommy' for the first time this week and she also said 'me, me, me' and pointed to herself. 

Sarah's favourite snack right now is dried apples (from Grammie and Granddaddie) and raisins. She mostly follows the rule that she's to sit down while eating...it helps that her special Winnie the Pooh chair is allowed to be in the kitchen while she has a snack. Snack time, by the way, is all day long. Half an hour after breakfast she starts making the sign to eat and she keeps making it all day long!

Little Miss Mouse has also discovered the fun that is eating spaghetti! She ate so much of it we thought she was going to burst.

Sarah loves to sweep floors (and 'fold' laundry too) so we bought her a broom. So much fun!

We'd planned to go to the Brandon Winter Fair on Saturday morning, but it rained and then snowed on Friday night, so the road conditions were too poor to go. Darn it. It was so beautiful and warm on Friday that we thought for sure it was the end of Winter...so - Alice the goat came out from her winter home (the garage). Alas, the snow wasn't finished with us...so Alice got a bit of a dusting of the white stuff.

Sarah loves Alice. She waves at her from her high chair and whenever she gets the opportunity she runs out to the back deck to visit with her.

When Sarah wakes up in the mornings she often plays for 45 minutes with the stuffed animals in her crib before she lets us know that she wants out. This morning she had all her stuffies lined up in a row with a blanket on them in case they were cold. 

On a more general note, the gym I joined has finally opened so I've gone a few times this week. Sarah seems to like the little play room as well, which is a bonus.

With the rapid disappearance of the snow this week, we discovered that the tree on the road allowance in front of the house had been ringed by some kind of animal. It turns out that it was a vole. A lot of the trees in the neighbourhood have met with the same fate, and many lawns have been destroyed as well. Dale did some digging in our backyard and he discovered a burrow leading right under our compost bin. Darn it. If we'd known that voles existed here we would have constructed the compost bin differently.