Stuffed Peppers Anyone??

Monday night I made stuffed peppers for dinner. Maddox and I had been to Walmart earlier in the afternoon to pick up the ingredients. Her new favorite 'job' is to help Mom unpack the grocery sacks. I dump them all in the laundry room, after unloading them from the RAV, and she goes to town. She was very intrigued with the peppers on Monday. She managed to get a couple of the peppers in her hands and carry them into the living room. But, as you can see she was having so much fun running around with them that she accidentally dropped them. And boy what a funny site to see her tryin' to pick 'em back up again. They were really BIG for her little hands. She worked so hard trying to get them both picked up again. She even blew raspberries at herself in disgust that she couldn't get them picked up....it was so funny....!! At one point, and you can see in the pictures, she fell backwards she was working so hard. She even made herself laugh! She worked for like 3 to 4 minutes before she finally got them BOTH picked back up again and went toddling around the house again. She was very proud of herself! We switched out the colors for a little variety, and the red ones were slightly smaller so she was much more successful with those. She eventually broke one of the green ones....oh well!! A little pepper juice on the floor never hurt anyone. We picked up a 'Mrs. Purple Bear' for her little brother today at Target. Course it isn't purple and we won't call it 'Mrs. Purple Bear'. It is brown and blue and I think it is a monkey if I remember right. Maddox and I took it into her LITTLE BROTHER'S bedroom and put it down on the bed! Everyday we try to incorporate some sort of LITTLE BROTHER education...!! Maddox's language has improved leaps and bounds just in like the last 72 hours. She learned 'OH BOY' 'EMMA' ( a little girl at Kim's) 'OUCH' and 'HI DADDY' just in the last few days. They are not perfect pronunciation yet but close. Even her baby talk sounds much more like words now than it did just a couple of weeks ago. Really amazing.