Appa appears in all the weekly Toddler Blogging pictures, but he’s not the only stuffed animal in Chateau Steelypips. the others were getting a little resentful of Appa’s blog time, so here’s the full cast of characters:
In the back row, from left to right, we have: SteelyKid, Baby, Audrey, Appa, Dolly, Lorax, and Mommy. In the front row: a green bird whose name I don’t know, a reindeer left over from Christmas, Dijon the knit giraffe, Bertha the Big Bear, and Emmy.
SteelyKid was sent home from day care with a fever today, which has kind of thrown a wrench into everything, and made her slightly less photogenic than usual. Here are a couple of happier shots from earlier in the week, though, when she and Kate were playing an energetic game of “bonk the balloon back and forth” in the library:
The balloon was picked up during an impulse trip to the store the other night when we beat Kate home after day care, and I couldn’t deal with the sobbing that started when Kate’s car wasn’t in the driveway. So we made a run to the Co-Op, picked up a few things we needed, and a helium balloon because it made SteelyKid happy. And we have gotten hours of fun out of that balloon since, so it was three bucks well spent.
Wait, who’s between Appa and Lorax? The doll’s wearing a blue shirt . . .
Whoops.
That’s what I get for having the pictures open in a separate program. Between Appa and Lorax is Dolly; I’ve updated the post to include her.
SteelyKid’s somewhat distressing smile-for-the-camera face is on display in the first picture.
I know that smile-for-the-camera-face very well. (It appears in almost every picture of me.) There’s no help for it, except maybe to say, “You don’t have to smile if you don’t want to.” That brings a natural smile, sometimes.
Giraffe?
You have a library? Lucky sod.
@Sili: IIRC the library is in what used to be Chad’s garage, and the window in the background that’s covered with a Venetian blind is where the garage door was. In a place that gets cold and snowy winters, as upstate New York does, that’s a significant sacrifice.
Given that the garage was barely wide enough to fit my car, if it could fit at all (I have my doubts), it wasn’t that much of a sacrifice. It’s much more useful to us as a library than it ever was as a garage.
SteelyKid has an adorable laughing face (in the first balloon pic).