Wed 3/28/12: C playing drums

This morning Callen woke up super early (5am early!) and just would not go back to sleep. He was so awake. And then so was his sister by 6ish and then she was cranky this morning! So right after lunch, I sent her to her room for a quiet time and when I went to check on her a half hour later, she was asleep. She definitely needed that. So while she slept, Callen and I played. :)

I SO wish this photo was in focus b/c it shows this shoulder cocking thing he does that is just so darn cute. Well you get the idea...

Then at 12:30pm, I put Callen down for his nap a little early since he had such an early morning, and I woke Elodie up from hers so that she would still sleep tonight. Becky came by to pick her up for an afternoon of fun with Alexis. When Callen woke up, we headed over to Becky's and all the kiddos (and the neighbor's kiddos) played outside. It's been so warm, she even had her hose out to water the grass and the kids had fun with that. Elodie came home with mud splashed onto her face. :)

Wed., 7/29/09...park, camera, prayers...

This morning L & I went to Chautauqua Park for the first time ever to meet a few friends. L had fun playing on the playground, but managed to fall up some cement stairs and gave herself a raspberry below her nose. After my friends left, L & I went up to the concert hall and listened to the symphony practice. L loved it...maybe a little too much since she wasn't that quiet. She clapped after each bit they played and would yell "yay!" We finally left when I thought she was getting so loud. We made it to the car just in time for the rain to start.

When I was getting our stuff out of the car at the park, I missed getting the camera bag strap completely over the stroller's handles and the camera bag fell to the asphalt. When I checked for damage, the lens filter I had on to protect the actual lens had chattered. I didn't want to deal with it then so I just took my camera out of the bag so it wouldn't be rubbing against all the broken glass and waited until I got home to unscrew the broken filter, shake all the broken glass off the camera, & shake all the glass bits out of the bottom of my camera bag.

So on the way home from the park, we stopped at the camera store to check out camera bags b/c maybe a new camera bag would be better?? I already had D order me a new filter as soon as it happened but I guess that means no picture taking for me until it gets here on Monday (here's to hoping it gets here sooner!!).

L peed before we left the house and held it all morning while we were out. I still can't believe that she's really potty trained (well except for those 3 times we tried putting her in capris or pants).

We got her a little drum set since she likes to bang on everything that she's not supposed to. We thought maybe this would be a good outlet for that. She LOVES it. She's so cute when she's giggling away banging on her drum w/her two drum sticks.

Yesterday, I got her a little travel suitcase w/wheels. Well really I saw that it had La Tour Eiffel, Arc de Triomphe, and Notre Dame on it and I had to get it for her. She really likes it. When we got home from the store she wheeled it around the block and then all around the house, including up the stairs. Today she's been wheeling it around the house and tried to take it on a walk but got rained on. It's really fun to see how much joy she gets out of it.

Tonight before bed, L said her prayers. It went like this: "Dear Jesus. Fall asleep fast. Mommy home safe. Daddy home safe. Amen." SO CUTE!!

Had to revert to the old point and shoot but I think I still got some cute ones:









After her walk tonight w/daddy although they didn't get very far b/c it started to rain. Obviously it was a little cold here today...when I checked earlier this evening it was 54F.


Taking off her socks during her jam session.