We were very lucky to have Grandma Katie come and visit us for a week and a half at the end of January. Tori got to spend two whole days with her while John and I went to Chicago to see the musical - Wicked! We loved Wicked and Tori loved getting to have lots of time with Grandma.
One fun place we went to while Grandma was here was the Children's Museum at the mall. Above Tori is in the hospital play area seeing how tall she is (around 42"). Below she is practicing brushing teeth. It's actually a big deal that she will brush this funny looking guy's teeth since the first time we went to this new part of the museum I teased her by saying that he was going to chomp my hand and she ran away terrified and wouldn't go near him for awhile - I'm such a good mother.
These are a couple pictures from the pizza making area - this is one of her absolute favorite things to do. She loves baking and serving me the pizza and has gotten very good at it. I shouldn't be surprised since pizza is her favorite dinner to help me make at home. This time at the museum she discovered the pizza case for keeping it warm while carrying it to my table and she thought that was the coolest thing ever.
Below is little mail-carrier Tori at the museum.
So, I think Tori probably spent about 75% of her time awake while Grandma was here in her sleeping beauty costume. Daddy was also on vacation while Grandma was here so he was home most of the time and Tori's favorite game to play with him is "princess". There are many variations of this game usually comprising parts of several different princess movies. The funny thing is when dad was home sometimes we would look around and wonder where did Tori go, but we always found her dressed in her princess outfit laying in her bed pretending to be asleep and waiting for "her prince" to wake her up. Her prince most always has to be daddy and he has to kiss her to wake her up - a few times she did let Grandma be the prince, though. She also loves to "dance at the ball" with her dad and they're really quite good at twirling and doing dips. :) Most of the time during the ball she suddenly runs away and is quite a pro at losing one of her slippers while running away without slowing down or missing a step.
Below Tori is helping dad clean-up after dinner. She loves to hand wash dishes, though she usually gets as much water and soap on her as on the dishes.
And last, our favorite activity with daddy - stories before bedtime.
