Belle's as smart as a chimp... Or is she?

Belle loves the squeeze mustard bottle. (Actually any container with a flip top she loves. Desitin, A & D ointment... Yuck!) I usually let her have it for a minute if she has managed to squeeze into the fridge behind an older child which is what happened today. Today she managed to insert a pen into the squeeze top and then took it out and licked the mustard off. She was just squatting on the floor focused on her new found skill enjoying the tasty mustard. As she did this, I pictured in my head a little chimp sittling at a termite mound fishing out termites with a stick!

Well, this evening, Emily took down a green glass ornament located out of Belle's reach from the tree. Belle found it... I saw her with it walking towards me and as I was coming to get it from her, she took a BITE out of it and started CRUNCHING it like a carrot!!! After a quick extraction of the glass pieces, she was more mad at me laying her on the counter and messing with her mouth than the pieces of the glass that had cut her tougue and her lip.

So now I'm not sure, is she a chimp or a goat?

Halloween 2006

Halloween was fun. We first had an activity at Emily's preschool. We've gone to it the past 3 years. It's a "Walk through the Countryside." There are different stations to visit on your walk through the "countryside." They got to jump over haystacks, forage for acorn "money", grind wheat and visit the baker for a baked goodie.
Inside the kids played bite the apple piece off the string, pin the face on the jack-o-lantern and listened to a story about the naughty hobgoblin. I liked doing this because it's Halloween on a much gentler level for little kids who could really do without the strong images associated with Halloween. Adam and Emily look forward to it each year.
After, Adam and Emily went out with dad this year. It was quite freezing this year and so we had only a handful of trick-or-treaters. Michael said Adam and Emily ran from house to house to stay warm. He also said that he saw many kids being driven to clusters of houses with lights on and then drive on to the next cluster.
Belle and I handed out candy. She was pretty tired after the preschool event and I don't think she would have liked the whole be in the dark outside freezing to get candy her mommy wouldn't let her eat anyway.