Balloons

Well, we already knew Anna loved balloons, but this last experience with them takes the cake.

Dave's birthday was last week, but since he was away for a couple of days and Anna's Mimi was visiting, we celebrated Dave's birthday and Mother's Day on Sunday. I bought a dozen helium balloons and Anna's eyes lit up as soon as she saw them. But since they looked so pretty the way I fixed them in the dining room, I decided to make her wait a little before letting her loose on them.

As soon as I untied them she was mesmerized by them. She loved pulling them down and then watching them float up to the ceiling. She shared nicely as well. She passed out balloons to Mimi, Grandma, Granddad, Daddy and Mimi's friend Claire only to collect them and start all over again.

You'd think she grow tired of them, but the next morning she headed right for the chair where I had tied them to the night before. After breakfast Mimi played with her as she giggled away with the balloons bouncing around her. After dinner she found them again but discovered a new way to play with the balloons. Recently she's been placing pillows on the floor and diving on top of them. She decided the balloons were a good substitute and dove in the middle of them entertaining us all. I was pretty impressed that she could manage to dive in the middle of them and then wiggle her away out of them only to do it all over again. She only grew a little frustrated when she got herself a bit too tangled and the ribbon started to pinch her leg. But with a little help from some scissors, peace was restored and the balloons regained their place on her favorite things list!