Go, Go, Go

Callie has been very go, go, go for the past week.  She is walking and running (with our help of course) everywhere we go.  She especially likes to chase after Caden and any bird or dog that she sees outside.  Lately she has been very interested in using her walker and pushing her little grocery cart, which is very exciting.  She can pull herself up in the walker and turn around to walk all on her own.  When she first started using the walker I had to hold her hips and push the walker for her, now I have to hold it back because she goes so fast!  

This picture is from the first day she got the walker back in March.  I don't have any recent photos since she moves too fast for me to take any :)

Pushing her grocery cart :)

We haven't been doing anything else too exciting.  Just lots of playing in the water and trying to stay cool.  My camera is still broken and my mom is sending the new one I purchased on Monday so hopefully I will have some new photos soon :)

We are going on the road with Scott in a couple of days to Nagoya so that should be exciting.  It's only about a one hour ride on the bullet train so hopefully Callie doesn't get too bored.  We hear there is an aquarium close by so we will definitely be visiting that.

Cute video

Not much has been going on.  Scott left for a road trip yesterday and it rained all day today.  I also have sad news to report, my camera is broken :(  It's very sad and also makes blogging kind of boring.  My Japanese cell phone has a pretty decent camera on it so I have been using it, but it's just not the same.  I'll definitely be doing some online shopping for a new one.  I'm thinking of getting an SLR camera, any suggestions?  

So, since there are no pics, here is a video of Callie dancing away when my parents were visiting.  Enjoy!

Goofy day

Callie had quite the goofy day yesterday.  We were out for most of the morning walking around the local flee market, playing at the park, checking out the dogs at the dog park and walking along the River Mall looking for fishies.  There are no fish in the small "river" that runs through Rokko Island.  It's water that is about 2 ft. deep at it's deepest that runs down a concrete path, but Callie insists that there are fish in it :)  

When we came back inside to get lunch ready Callie was pretty hot and dirty so I stripped her down to her diaper, but a big towel on the kitchen floor and gave her a large pot with soapy water.  This was a suggestion from a Mommy friend and it kept Callie occupied for quite a while, while cleaning her arms and hands too :)  In fact, she really didn't want to stop playing, even to eat!  At first I gave her a spoon to play with in the water but she kept dipping it in and then drinking the soapy water.  So I gave her a cup thinking she would put the spoon in the cup . . .  She ended up filling up the cup and then dumping it all over her belly and giggling.  She was having too much fun!

Playing in the water

Once lunch was ready I scooped her up in a big towel, dried her off, put on clothes and then we sat down to lunch.  She kept talking about her hat before she would eat and I had no clue what she meant until I realized that she wanted the hooded towel I had used to dry her off.  She sat for most of her lunch with her towel "hat" on.  What a goof ball!!

Callie and her towel "hat"

Apparently the hat fascination didn't wear off once she woke up from her nap.  We were getting ready to go outside and play with some friends.  I had my sun hat on while I was trying to put on Callie's shoes and she kept asking for it.  She had so much fun wearing the hat and even started posing with it when I was taking her picture.

Having fun with Mommy's hat

Posing for the camera :)

What's really funny about the whole hat thing is that ever since her Doc Band came off she has put up a huge fight when I try to put a hat on her.  It gets so sunny here in the summer and she is so fair I was worried she was going to end up with a sunburnt head for most of the summer.  Hopefully she continues to love hats :)

Callie vs. the Laundry Basket

I got one of those small pop-up laundry baskets the other day and Callie had quite the time playig with it . . .

Inside the laundry basket

How do I get out of this thing???

Starting to figure it out . . .

Finally sitting up straight.

Get this stupid thing off of me!!

Going in for more!

Rats, I got stuck again!

Showing the basket who's boss!