So we went from a sunny 102 degrees on Saturday to upper 60s and rain today. We really had no reason to leave the house today so, well, we didn't.... except for one trip about 3 minutes up the highway to Wal-Mart and then to our favorite nearby Chinese restaurant for some take-0ut Hunan chicken. We've been going there since Kerry came home and they absolutely adore Kerry... and we've come to love them, too. Seriously, even one of the men came all the way out of the kitchen to give her a hug and kiss. It's our "thing" to get lunch from there at least once a week one of my off days and now Kerry just walks in shouting "Ni hao!!".

Anyway, aside from getting lunch, the whole reason we went out was to check out Wal-Mart's craft department for something to do during our afternoon indoors. Kerry ended up choosing a bag of foam alphabet stickers. Not surprised as she's very interested lately in what things "smell" (spell) lately.

Once we got home she went right to work ended up doing this...

It took her singing the alphabet song about two dozen times to complete it, but complete it, she did, and all on her own =). Then she noticed that the bag contained numbers as well as letters so she added the bottom part...and after that she added her name in the blank space between the zero and the ten. This little project occupied her for a good hour and now hangs proudly on our refrigerator.

She gave some letters to her babies to "look at". She's playing with her dolls more lately and its so sweet to watch.

I often get a "Shhh, Mommy, they're sleeping".

She's playing more with her dollhouse too. We even spiffed it up with new wallpaper made from heavy scrapbook paper. Ever tried to wallpaper a dollhouse? Trimming around those little windows is tricky!

These are a few of her "friends", as she calls them. Baby Panda, Big Panda, Baby Penguin, Pink Bunny, and Robe (not pictured) are her constants. She sleeps with them and keeps track of where they are during the day. Then there are the others that are rotated out and new ones brought in every few days...some just leave me scratching my head. We have here, all lined up, a pink towel, glow worm, Baby Panda, Pink Bunny, Baby Penguin, a Care Bear, a frog slipper, Big Panda, a storage container from Christmas currently filled with "groceries", an orange race car, and a little box that something was shipped in that currently contains the cards from her Candy Land game and some other random items. Sometimes I wonder if this is normal three year old stuff, as opposed to "hoarding" behaviour. Hmmm..would love some feedback on that from any of my Bloggy friends.