It has been a little while since I updated the blog. As usual, my first thoughts are, "Tatiana is so amazing."
Yesterday evening, she really really wanted to play outside. Scotland and I were making dinner. She went out the dog door. She removed all the hold-down straps on the cover to the sandbox except for the two corner ones. Then she got the swimming pool which was upside down on the patio and got it right side up and moved to it's place next to the fence gate. The pool is so much bigger than her, it was really something to see. The she got the hose and stood there trying to figure out how to make the water go. At that point, I went out back. I removed the nozzle on the end and turned the water on. She stood there and filled her own pool! While I was out there, I also removed the two corner straps on the sandbox. Then I wound up the cover. It is so amazing that she did all that! Then she put all her toys from the sandbox and tossed them into the pool. She played in there for a while. Then she wanted to play in the sandbox. So she tossed all her toys back into the "Box." The sandbox play lostly involved her holding the turtle form and mommy putting sand in. Then she patted down the sand and put the turtle on the seat. She doesn't understand yet that it will look prettier if she doesn't turn it over until the last minute. So, sometimes they look like turtles. Sometimes like mounds of sand. She created about two dozen turtles. Then she wanted to swing, which I thought was great. We did the ABC song/game. For the first few letters she said them at the same time as me. Unfortunately, it started to rain, so we had to go inside.
Scotland had taken her to Central Market that day. At the playground, there was a little boy that thought Tatiana was wonderful. Tatiana wanted nothing to do with him. He told Scotland he was "four and three quarters". Scotland thought that was funny.
I got the biggest "MOMMY" when I got home. I love that.