Bounce House

We borrowed an inflatable bounce house from our in-laws while Kirke was on summer vacation. Alice loves to run around in there, but she especially likes riding on Kirke's back to do a flying leap into the bounce house. The cutest part is that she's recently decided that she wants to give her own baby Cabbage Patch doll "incoming" piggyback rides as well!

Cowboys & Aliens

As I'm sure everyone is aware, this weekend marked the opening of the epically-named and phenomenally-bad movie "Cowboys & Aliens," so of course Alice insisted that we get a group together to celebrate prior to going to see the movie. Aunt Ginny & her boyfriend Frank rode into town for a meal of octopus & pasta, green Alien Spawn Empanadas, and franks & beans.

While Alice greatly enjoyed the dinner and getting to dress up as cute little Alien spawn, she was bitterly disappointed to find out that she then had to stay home and wouldn't get to come see the movie, as it started well after her bedtime.

The Future of Anesthesiology

Kirke is giving the Grand Rounds lecture at his department conference this week. The title of his talk is, "The Future of Anesthesiology," so of course he recruited Alice to pose for some photos to use as visual aids.

Her intubating technique could use some work -- and you should always wear gloves when coming in patient contact -- but she sure does look cute in those Wisconsin scrubs!

Car seat

Alice has developed a renewed interest in babies & taking care of babies since the birth of her friend Emma and, more recently, her cousin Alma. She still loves to wrap up her dolls in swaddling blankets, feed her dolls, and push her dolls on the baby swingset, but now she has also started to put her dolls in any unclaimed carseat or bassinet she might find, and then try to carry her dolls around just like the way big people carry their babies.

Putting the chickens to roost

Alice has progressed from barely noticing the chickens a few months ago to now constantly wanting to help take an active role in caring for them. The chickens somewhat tolerate her, in turn, and occasionally leave an egg for her to find. This video is very long...

Nice Job Painting, whoo!

Alice carefully mixes blue, red, and green paints together to make just the right shade of brown to spread all over her face and smock. She needs lots of positive reinforcement from Daddy to keep the brush mostly on the canvas.

Tricycle

Alice's legs still aren't quite long enough to reach the pedals on her tricycle, but that's ok for now because she much prefers pushing her Dolly around, anyway.