Thursday, January 22, 2009

Babysitting and playing

I had the chance to babysit for Emma this week. We had lots of fun playing upstairs, downstairs, in Chelsea's room, in the kitchen, all over! It was nice to have a friend of Chelsea's come over. She asks about all the people she knows regularly. I don't know if it is just so that she can stay up later or what (it's usually bedtime when she's the most talkative, hehe.)

Chels is not afraid to let her friends know what she thinks of them. She is giving Emma a kiss on the head. So nice!

Cheese!

Photogenic kids. I'm so jealous of that. I look goofy in most of the pictures taken of me. These girls? Cute as can be!

Going for the gangsta look, Emma?

Sup. *head tilt*

Hat all the way on.

It's not just Chelsea that likes to put hats completely over her face! They both tottered around blind for awhile. Crazy kids.

Kitchen magnets! Woo! They must be tasty.

Even teeny tiny dolls deserve a proper stroller ride.

Peek a boo! I see you!

Kisses! Everything gets a kiss. Occasionally she helps her dollies do the kissing.

The Ensign is always a handy read since it is sitting on the side table all the time. She can identify the prophet and Jesus consistently. If she's not sure, she calls the women Mommy and the men Daddy.

Is this girl camera shy? Uh, no. :)

Chelsea hasn't figured out how to get the tray on the high chair by herself, so she brings it to me saying, "Broke, broke, broke." or else "Fix it, fix it, fix it."

This dolly high chair was a great present. (Thanks Hornbachers!) Chelsea loves to feed her babies regularly.

What kid can resist play food and dishes? Not these girls.

A new favorite place to chill is her Tink chair, along with pink blanket and a phone. I'm raising a girly girl, no doubt about it.

Chelsea was sad about something, I don't remember what, and so she took Tash, and went and curled up in her chair again. Isn't she just precious?

Emma liked the blanket and chair also.

Here is Chelsea's castle and coach. We thought of hanging up the castle so that it looked like you were going into it, but we settled on hanging it on the wall instead. It's easier to see the kids/room that way.

Overall play area. The molding made a nice definite area to put up the castle walls. It's almost as if there used to be a real wall there. Weird... ;)

This corner is for relaxing. Chelsea loves to sit in her Tinkerbell chair and talk on the phone. Funny side note: Chels held the phone up to her ear and said "Talking, talking." insead of actually having a pretend conversation. Funny! She's also been known to lay on the purple pillow and cover up and say shhh shhhh shhh. (snoring, hehe)

The kitchen now has a little work table! Yay for spare coffee tables that don't fit in living rooms!

These bookshelves act as kind of a half-wall. I like that I can sit at this messy work table of mine and see her just fine. Or I can work out on our new elliptical machine (you can see a small part of it at the very top of the picture behind the foosball table) and see her also!

3 comments:

Jerusha said...

I love the picture of chelsea in the chair cuddling a baby and a blanket. So sweet! Wow what a playroom. So what will you do if you have a boy!!

Amanda said...

Wow when did you get all of that stuff up? the place looks great! If were Chelsea I'd never want to leave the house!

Rick, Erin, and girls said...

Jerusha, I guess I will cross that bridge if I ever get there! I know we have an AWFUL LOT of pink, but it's just so cute and Chels is SUCH a girly girl, so it fits her. And that is one of my favorites too, it's on my desktop right now.

Amanda, Chelsea got most of the stuff in her playroom for Christmas. We just got it all finished up a little while ago, though. And she is constantly taking me by the hand to go "downstairs" (repeated many times) and play. I have the computer and my work table to keep me occupied when I'm not getting fed by my daughter. (She LOVES her food/dishes/kitchen/whole room)