Salome's Playmates

Salome has so many good playmates.  Her cousin Cortney has been visiting often lately because she takes Driver's Ed in Missoula, so Salome is thrilled with that.  They took a sweet nap together one afternoon and I documented it, of course.  Salome is also overjoyed to have Auntie Hilly ("Heddy") just downstairs at her beck and call.  Her Auntie has been teaching her lots of new words, and now she is learning to count to 10 in Spanish.  She has very good pronunciation, but kind of gets distracted right around 6 or 8 and then finds something else to do.  

Her Appachen is also in town for a couple weeks, and she couldn't be more happy about that.  She calls him Appa and lets just say he comes when she calls.

One of her latest things, as you can see from the last few weeks, is the desire to be nude as often as possible.  When bathtime comes, she seems to sneak right out the door, out the fence and down the sidewalk.  Another new thing she does is to show us how strong she is.  She grits her teeth and grins and turns red and quivers while she clenches her hands into awkward positions.  She also has been giving us some very strange looks and then pointing at her eyes to show us with which she is able to make those strange looks.   She is learning all her body parts and can list them off - my favorite of the moment is when she points to the mole on her arm and says "MOOOWW"  with a long face and an "O"-shaped mouth.  

She loves the water so she had a great time at the water park and is also just satisfied to play with a trickle of water from the hose.  

We were in Arlee for the 4th and Salome got to sit astride the huge fish that Grandma will be painting.  I think her papa wished he could have ridden it.