Reading with Daddy

Sequoia has been having a ton of fun with her Daddy. He has been making her balloon animals every day, and she loves the funny voices he uses to read her books. She now thinks all cows are Scottish. She knows most of her library books by heart and likes to say a lot of the words with us. Sequoia can now count up to fourteen, but she likes to skip seven and eight (she thinks it's funny). She also has started showing a big interest in letters. She likes us to write out letters for her and spell out words for her on her blocks. She also likes surrounding herself with all her animal toys and bears and having tea parties. She has named one of her bears Teddy (the cream one in the pictures) and carries him and her Dolly around everywhere. Such a fun girl!

Check out these new pictures of Sequoia playing with balloon animals, reading books, having a tea party and showing off her puddle-stomping boots!

Happy Halloween!

We had a spooktacular Halloween! Sequoia helped us carve her first pumpkin. She thought the goopy insides were neat and liked squishing it between her hands. She then went through two costume changes before the day was over. First, since she had seen Daddy dressed like a pirate (a Bookaneer to be exact), she wanted to dress up like a pirate too. We both think that her pirate picture is awesome--you can see features of both of us all blended together, even more than usual. Later that night, she got all dressed up in her fairy costume so she could match Mommy's woodland sprite costume. She helped hand out candy to trick-or-treaters and then visited with all the costumed math peoples. She was also thrilled to see baby Natalie! We all had a great night, and Sequoia was even in bed at a reasonable hour--even after creating a patty-cake song distraction and sneaking a handful of candy corn and swindling half a Kit Kat from her pal Dan Wang.

We hope you all had a great Halloween too! Enjoy these cute Sequoia pictures =)