Dirt :)

If you have read my blog for awhile you know that I have been stressing over Addy's complete lack of play skills. She has completely turned the corner lately! Spring break she proved to be a typical toddler by dumping everything everywhere and putting things in and out of her shopping cart repeatedly :) I'm LOVING these new skills!!!

At our preschool we have a gigantic dirt box. Yes people, it's filled with dirt :) Some of our staff have a love/hate relationship with the dirt box. The kids LOVE it! Addy has spent the last year and a half sitting in a wagon or in front of the school doors where she can see her reflection and sing to herself. Her amazingly wonderful teacher decided the other day that Addy needed to move and play during recess and put her in the gait trainer :) Sneaky thing she is! Addy tolerated it just fine but apparently it did the trick because yesterday she discovered the dirt box :) I was at Head Start working when I got a text and this is what I saw :)

I was cracking up, so out of character for Addy! Not only is she in the dirt box, she has it on her face!!! Woo hoo Addy girl!!!

I went out today during recess so I could watch her play. She went right to the dirt box and climbed on in and had a blast!!! She was playing appropriately too! She was digging with a shovel, putting the dirt in a pail and wheelbarrow and even fighting over a toy :) Some people thought that I would freak that Addy got filthy. I am not a freak over getting dirty, clothes wash :) Addy is always dressed to the nines but she does wash. However, after recess she tackled the paint and the paint won :) So we now have a play shirt. I don't think we've ever one of those before!
She's even walking in it!!! We can barely get her to walk outside at all, different terrains freak her out!

Check out the bum!

Yes she is dumping dirt all over her head :) I LOVE that she has to have a bath because she is dirty from playing, so proud of you Addy boo!!!