Jenny always loved her baby dolls, so it's not surprising that Suzi is following in her mom's footsteps. We took Suzi and her parents to The Cabbage Patch in Cleveland, GA. on Sunday. Cleveland is only about 70 miles from Clemson, making it a nice day trip. Suzi insisted on carrying her baby with her. The baby had to have a visitor's pass. You can see the sticker on her back.
It was such fun watching Suzi try to take in everything she saw.
We could hardly contain her. She wanted to go-go
on her own and explore the whole place.
Each room or area had a theme. Here we are in the school room.
In addition to the bus there was a playground, classroom and cafeteria.
Suzi liked Santa's glasses. She calls everyone's glasses "eyes".
Suzi and her dad checked out some of the
Cabbage Patch Kids in the Christmas area.
She pointed out the noses, eyes, ears and
mouths on the "kids" sitting by the fence.
Then she went shopping! Here she has two Bunny Bees - they're
the ones who sprinkle crystals in the Cabbage Patch to
determine which babies are boys and which are girls.
Bet you didn't know that!
She chose a girl with big green eyes and a tuft of light brown hair.
Once she selected the prefect baby, she was ready to go-go.
She carried it to the check out all by herself.
Grandpa met her there to take care of the paperwork.
She loved her new baby all the way home.
Welcome home Shayla Harmon.
I'm sure there will be more trips to the Cabbage Patch for us. Suzi wasn't at all interested in seeing the action when one of the cabbages had a delivery. I video taped it for her, but she'll want to see it for herself one of these days.
They make her feel so intelligent!
These are the crabapples on the tree in our backyard. I had been complaining because they are too small to use to make jelly. That was before a friend gave me a bag of crabapples. I certainly couldn't let them go to waste!
Thank goodness for Jenny! She came over Saturday afternoon to help. Jenny decided it made more sense to sit than to stand all afternoon. I usually don't sit, but I must admit it was a good idea. We sat to pick through and remove the blossom ends from the crabapples.
Then we washed, and washed, and washed before boiling the crabapples and squeezing the juice out.
Each room or area had a theme. Here we are in the school room.
Suzi liked Santa's glasses. She calls everyone's glasses "eyes".
Suzi and her dad checked out some of the
She pointed out the noses, eyes, ears and
Then she went shopping! Here she has two Bunny Bees - they're
She chose a girl with big green eyes and a tuft of light brown hair.
Grandpa met her there to take care of the paperwork.
She loved her new baby all the way home.
Welcome home Shayla Harmon.
She's getting to be quite the little climber.
Over and up!
She loves to find pictures of butterflies and animals on her Picture Play Quilt.
She loves to help Grandma clean with the Swivel Sweeper.
That's just the morning. We'll do the afternoon later.
Suzi started pulling my magnets off the refrigerator, so I got her some of her own. No, she doesn't recognize the letters yet, but her fine motor skills are improving daily. We'll start on colors soon.
She already knows which animal is which when asked to put them in Noah's ark.
She tries to sing the Noah's ark song and boogies to the beat of the CD.
And she has no trouble putting the plastic coins in the slot on her piggy bank.
She met her little nine month old cousin for the first time this weekend.
Their favorite spot was in the swing.
Suzi also loved the slide.
