Gemma has some new interests of late.
I mentioned last week about her new puzzles. She also got Candy Land for Christmas and I finally broke it out the other week. It's been kind of a source of frustration for me, because she gets it but not quite. But we're trekking on and often play at least once a day. She really loves it.
She got
Nina Ballerina from her godmother a few years ago and is just now growing into this toy. She still doesn't quite understand how to dress her "correctly" (as evidenced in the picture), but she really enjoys playing with her and I think it is a nice, less frustrating take on paper-dolls. It's something she can do by herself or we can work on it together, so that is nice.
We were coloring the other day and I was drawing some fruit. She was looking at my paper and trying to draw the same thing I was. I thought she did a pretty decent job.
We have all been enjoying some time coloring lately, even Kolbe! Gemma likes to draw people, rain and fruit. She definitely prefers markers to crayons. She loves to hang her and Kolbe's "art" on the fridge when they are finished. I need more clip-magnets. And a bigger refrigerator front. Kolbe likes to scribble and eat the markers. Or throw them. But overall it makes for good times and cheap-entertainment, so I can't complain!
