Who gave Bea her tattoo?

Bea's first pumpkin!

This evening Beatrice helped me carve our first pumpkin of the season. The special thing about THIS pumpkin is that we grew it ourselves!

So she didn't actually get her hands dirty, but she enjoyed shoving the knife through the open hole and pretending she was scraping the insides! Below is the finished product. (One down two more to go!)

Swine Flu hits the Du Toit household!

Over the weekend I noticed Bea was a little more irritable than usual. Sunday I could really hear it in her voice and she started coughing a little. She didn't have a fever, but today Izak stayed home with her and took her to the doctor. It's a good thing that we did take her because she tested positive for the swine flu. :( She's on medication and she can't go back to daycare until she has two days with no fever. I called my ob/gyn and their protocol is if my husband or child were to test positive then I would immediately start on the tamiflu as well. So here I am, on swine flu medication, feeling fine. Fingers crossed that I don't get it, Izak doesn't get it and Bea shakes it off soon. Not sure where she got it in the first place.

Beatrice and the Spider

Every Halloween I like to add to my growing collection of Halloween decorations. A couple of weeks ago we purchased this giant black spider. Beatrice decided to teach it a thing or two:

Take that!

And THAT!

I think the spider knows who's boss. :)

Annoyed!

So I am sooo annoyed right now! I tried to run to the bank. BIG mistake. It being a Friday and all. There was a huge line of cars and people at both the drive up and walk up tellers... I didn't even stop. Then my doctor suggested that I go to a certain Walgreens to get my flu shot. I pulled up - it's in a sort of crappy part of town, and walked inside. There is another line. Three people at each station. Two guys sitting in chairs, not sure if they were waiting or waiting with someone. Another pregnant girl who was next in line and some thug looking guy. I stood there for about 10 min. and said 'eff it' in my head and left. I am so not in the mood for lines on a Friday afternoon. Gotta run to Tulare to pick up my costume for tomorrow, hopefully the bank there won't be busy and I can grab money there.. Ugh! Then I have to find where to get a damn flue shot! Ugh! Ugh!

Super sonic hearing?

In the beginning when Bea was a tiny baby I swear I could hear her breathing over Izak and Rugby's snoring. Of course she was in the same room with us then. I just wonder if my hearing is getting better or if I just know my daughter all too well. This afternoon I was getting ready to go out. I was in my bathroom doing my hair and make-up. Beatrice was in the bathroom with me at some point going through drawers and taking stuff out. She took out my toothpaste and wondered into the game room, not far from my room. I went to see what she was doing and she had taken the cap off and she was licking the top of it. I promptly took it away from her. Instead of throwing a fit she just kind of crinkled up her nose. I then went back into the bathroom to put the toothpaste away and finish getting ready. Now, I had left her in the game room on one of Izak's game chairs. As I was putting on my eye shadow I hear her getting into something... It could have been almost anything in the game room and that would have been fine because we child proofed that room as best we could. But something told me to go check on her. (Was whatever she was playing with sound different in any slight way to me? Or did I just know that she was getting into something she shouldn't be getting into?) I stepped across the hall towards the game room only to find Beatrice in the guest bathroom with the box of band-aids on the floor and a handful of them in her hand. Did I mention she gets into everything!? I took the box of band-aids away from her as well. Luckily Izak stepped in and got her occupied with something out in the family room so I could finish getting ready. But that is basically any given morning for me unless she actually sleeps till 7 a.m. And on most mornings Izak isn't there to occupy her and it can be quite a chore! Oh well I love her so.
Beatrice is getting way too clever for her own good. Just last week she learned how to unlock the outside doors at Gigi and Grandpy's house. And today while I was getting ready she grabbed my mascara and twisted the top off! She is just getting to be more and more of a handful! What will she get into next?

Birthday to You!

I got it on video!