Beads and shovels

Rosie had been talking a lot about making necklaces for us (inspired by something she saw on a show). We walked down the street to a fun kid store and totally scored with a bead set. We hunkered down at the coffee shop for some serious jewelry-making. She was so sweet, repeatedly saying "I make you a beautiful necklace. Yeah? Yeah?"


She transitions well from fine jewelry to gardening! She helped mommy and daddy with yard work today. She was devastated when we interrupted her shovel time (which initially started as Tupperware and a plastic soup spoon) and was glad to return I work.
Dialogue from this afternoon: "Daddy/Mommy, what're you doing? What am I doing?"
(Wait for us to ask her what she was doing)
"I'm shoveling!"
(Repeat over and over again)



All that hard work warranted Rosie's first ice cream truck treat!