This was the last picture we took before the old camera pooped out. Meredith skipped a nap and then fell asleep on the floor later that day. I thought it was so cute! It turns out that she was sick - I should have known that something was wrong when she fell asleep on the floor!
As I mentioned earlier, I got a new camera for Mother's Day - yeah! It is great! We are trying it out here.
We went shopping and Meredith saw cheese "popcorn" (puffcorn) and insisted on having it right then - I had to get a picture. It is not the first time we have had to open food in a store for her, and I'm sure it won't be the last.
Mimi and Papa Reaves came over to our house the day before Mother's Day for dinner. Mimi and Meredith are playing in the playroom with Meredith's purse. You can see Meredith is putting on her lipstick.
While we were at church on Mother's Day, Meredith fell asleep in the nursery. That was our first clue something was wrong. It turns out, she had picked up a little virus that turned into an ear infection - nothing unusual. So this was how we spent Mother's Day - she had such a high fever that we couldn't get her to settle down in her bed but she couldn't stay awake either, so Todd laid down with her in our bed and they slept most of the afternoon that way. I just tried to be quiet in the other room. Happy Mother's Day!
WE LOVE KID CITY!!!
After a round of antibiotics she was feeling much better and we went to Kid City to play with some of the kids from MOMS Club. Kid City is an inflatable jumping place in Daphne. They have open play for preschoolers on Friday mornings and we have become frequent guests there - she absolutely loves it. This day I finally remembered my camera.
Meredith and William are climbing the ladders. By the way, they had a funky socks contest that day, which Meredith won - I just don't want you to think I can't match her outfits!
She is very good at climbing on almost everything there...
...and here she comes down the slide!
She is sitting on top of one of the "boxing" gloves
Afterwards we went to Chick-fil-A for lunch with MOMS club. Surprisingly, it was uneventful, and maybe even...pleasant? Not many restaurant meals go smoothly with her anymore.
She is climbing everywhere at home too. She pushes her stool all around the house to help give her a boost when she needs it. Notice she still has Pablo in her hand.
Every now and then she will look right at the camera and smile normally for me - only every now and then!
Pretty soon she will be too tall to go under this table!
She is eating a banana, which she loves - which is great, but it makes walking past the banana display at the grocery store a real ordeal!
She is great at removing clothes, but this is about as far as she can get with putting them back on again! Notice that she is also already wearing clothes in this picture - but that doesn't matter to her.
We went to story time at the Daphne Library for the first time in May. It went better than I thought it would, although to say that she paid any attention to the story would be entirely untrue. However, they did have music and a craft and she liked that part a lot. It is something we will have to work on. Afterwards, we went to the children's section of the library where they have a train table (she loves train tables), puzzles, and toys, in addition to the books. Notice, she still has Pablo in hand. She is sitting at the train table and telling me about something important.
Meredith and William are playing with the trains (and some dinosaurs?)
Back at home, she was very pleased with herself for this feat. She arranged the furniture herself and climbed up there with no assistance from anyone.
On another day, we went to the Davidson's house to play. William and Meredith are playing in the sandbox, while Hannah and Emily look on. Meredith had a fixation this day with eating sand - it drove Mom crazy!
She didn't spend too much time in the sandbox, though - she was off and climbing the swingset before too long!
She really enjoys slides!
She always has a lot to say!
The week of Meredith's birthday, Great-Aunt Martha came down to see us. She brought Meredith a bag of toys to play with. She was just waking up from a nap and was not sure about things.
After a while she became really interested in the items.
Her actual birthday was on a Thursday. Martha took Meredith, me, and Aunt Lauren (who arrived that day) out to lunch for our birthdays, which are all within two weeks of each other. Meredith is getting ready to go to lunch and telling me about her dress.
We went to the Oyster House. One of the many ways we got through lunch with her is to let her wear her sun hat.
Hi Lauren!
And now we have the other hat on...anything to make it through without a tantrum!
She did pretty well at lunch. Afterward, we played at the playground at the Oyster House.
She thought it was pretty fun!
Later that day, we let Meredith look at her cards and open one present.
It was a Miss Spider pop-up playhouse. She had a ball in it (and still is!)
It is quite a lot bigger than I thought it was - adults can even fit in it, as shown by Lauren here
I guess that's it for this post! I promise birthday party pictures are coming soon!
