Trip to Springfield

We had an exciting trip to Springfield, Illinois last weekend! Abraham Lincoln lived in Springfield for about 25 years, and was buried there. We went and saw the Lincoln Museum, the Lincoln home, and the Lincoln tomb.

Here we are with the Lincoln family.

We got to take a tour of Lincoln's home, redone to be like it was when he lived there.

Jessica was very worn out after that and promptly fell asleep in her car seat, so I just sent Nate out to see the tomb up close.

We then drove on to St. Louis, Missouri and spent the night so we could go to the temple in the morning. Our hotel had a swimming pool and Jessica went swimming for the first time!

St. Patrick's Day

We had a fun St. Patrick's Day this week! Jessica has been wearing our clover beads around for quite awhile. She loves to drape things around her neck!
I made a rainbow jello to go with our green dinner. In the pan it kind of just looked like a brown mess, but when cut into small pieces it turned out really cool! It had lots of fruity flavors.

Mischeivious Baby!

Cute picture, huh? It has nothing to do with my story...

I put Jessica down for her nap as usual after lunch and after going in to change her diaper once I thought she would really be ready to sleep! Meanwhile, I was reading. Sometimes Jessica would be babbling away and sometimes she would be quiet for so long I thought she was asleep. She was pretty happy, but she had been in there an hour, so I thought maybe I would take her on a walk to see if that would help.
I went into her room and pulled her out of her crib, and started to get things we would need to take (binkie/blankie) when I noticed a wrapper in her crib. ("I wonder how she got this?") It was a dumdum wrapper-banana flavor! I figured she must have grabbed the wrapper out of the garbage and taken it to bed without my noticing...but then what were the little bits of paper doing around her mouth, and how come her eyebrow was all sticky? After some further investigation, I found two halves of a dumdum stick lying on the floor by her crib. I also found on our walk (in the light of the sun) that her face-and ear were stickier than I thought.
I think I would have noticed if I put her in bed with a sucker, so I think she must have put it in her crib earlier. The question is, can a 14 month old think, "hey I will just put this in my crib and then later, when mom isn't watching I will unwrap it and eat it?" If so-who gave her a taste of a dumdum that would make her want to do that?