A beautiful day

The weather was so perfect today. My daughter and I went outside for fresh air, yesterday was a yucky, rainy day. We pushed her little shopping cart in front of our house and counted mailboxes. She really has taken to the whole counting thing. She likes to count things in her books and it is really neat to watch her realize all that there is to count out in the "real world". She also likes to "give five". She is starting to realize her fingers can be numbers too!

I washed my husbands truck, but she didn't want to help. Her newest thing is to shake her head whenever you ask her if she wants to do something. But it isn't so defiant as it could be because she gives it this cute little "twirl" to it. I don't use the word "no" around her too much, hoping to put off the inevitable "no" stage as long as I can the closer she gets to two, so she doesn't tell me no as much as she does her little twirly head shake. :-)

I am not feeling quite as energetic as I would like to, but since the kids are napping I better try and get something done.