Don’t You Dare… (Wordless Wednesday)
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Monthly Archives: September 2007
An afternoon of Dragons, Marshmallows and Starbucks – without ever leaving the house!
Emma is cracking me up right now.
She is supposed to be “resting” and we use that term lightly around here. It usually involves her reading 4 or 5 books in Mommy and Daddy’s bed. And then she creeps, ever so quietly down the steps, about halfway, where she sits trying to “quietly” get our attention. Like making little squeaks, or coughs. I usually “pretend” for a few minutes that I don’t see her there until she gets louder or creeps the rest of the way down the stairs and says, “Is it okay to get up now?”
So anyhow, I’m working down here (kind of) and she just quietly (kind of) came downstairs and I acknowledged her and told her “come on down.” But she still has her tights and leotard on (due to the earlier recital she and A. gave me, while they were practicing the Bella Dancerella DVD), and she hit the hardwood floors running, and bit it! I didn’t really laugh until she started to and I knew she was fine, but it was pretty funny. Little arms and legs sprawled everywhere.
Then she asked if she could watch a movie and have a snack. She chose Pete’s Dragon for the movie (again!) and came back in with the bag of mini marshmallows from the snack drawer. The whole bag. They were put into the snack drawer once upon a time explicitly for when we have hot chocolate, but both of the girls LOVE them. So yes, she was having marshmallows for her snack. (Don’t call the nutrition police on me, yet!)
And if you give a “Peanut” a marshmallow, she is going to need a drink. So she went back to the kitchen for a drink and came running back in to the living room with a “milkbox.” I found these organic Horizons milkboxes at the store on Sunday. We always get them on our Saturday treks to the bagel shop – when I usually stop at Starbucks to get a coffee, the girls pick out either vanilla or chocolate milks.
So she comes running in with the milkbox and says, “Mom! Look! This is so great. Our house is just like Starbucks!”
Now if we could just get a coffee barista in the kitchen to make an endless supply of grande, non-fat mochas for Mommy, we’d never have to leave the house.
Crafty Tuesday
Yeah, I’ve got nothing this week.
Well, that isn’t entirely true. The girls and I are working on “crafts” for the kippy party on Saturday.
And, I am organizing Ad’s scrapbook and putting it in order.
AND, I finally finished the huge collage frame that has been sitting in our room for a few months with random photographs in it. Here is a little pic of it –
If you go to our flickr account you can see the photos I chose for the collage. They are all favorites of mine.
I’m sure next week we’ll have lots to show, including the um…attempt at a doggy/kitty cake.
Oh! But check out Elisa and Melissa’s creations for their party. They took pictures of each guest with Melissa and then did the one-hour developing – so all of the guests went home with a clothespin photo holder and picture as a party favor. Cool, huh? I’m definitely filing that one away for a later party idea!
Do you have any crafts to share this week?
How we spent the “last weekend of summer”
Note: This will not really be in essay form, so sorry to all you teachers out there, but I do have lots of visual aids (photos!) so maybe it will still make the grade?
The “last weekend of the summer” is such a misnomer around here, since we are going on at least a week straight of 100+ (usually 105) degree days here in the valley. Yes, it’s true we don’t have humidity, but dang, it is H-O-T!
So our gracious neighbors left for the weekend to go to the desert (where it is actually cooler, believe it or not!), and we had to poolsit catsit for their kitties, which of course meant we had to test out the pool, too. Emma completed her level of swim lessons last week, so she got to show-off a little for Daddy.
Little side note for a second – she is AWESOME in the pool. I was in serious amazement on Friday when they took the kids over to the “big” pool for their last swim lesson. Em jumped off the diving board by herself, no life jacket, no swimmies, nothing! And then she proceeded to swim, over to the lifeguard and side of the pool. Face in the water, stroking, kicking, by herself! It was really something to watch. I think another 2 weeks and she would be full-on swimming laps. It is crazy, but those swim lessons were the best $30 ever spent. (So cheap, too!!)
So anyhow, Daddy got to hang out and see her swim. We ran some errands and just tried to stay cool on Saturday.
Sunday, Uncle Jeff and Wendy invited us down to her Uncle’s beachhouse…soooo nice! So we spent the day at the nice, cool beach. Well, it was still warm, but the water was perfect, big waves, nice breeze. It was heavenly.
Addie pretty much kept it on the sand –
But she was very excited and wished Daddy, Mommy and Emma “Good Luck” when we all tried our hand at boogie-boarding.
Daddy is an “old pro” at this. He got all of the rest of us on boards and helped us get the hang of it.
And guess who is great at it? Yep, our little “fishy.”
I think she even got “rolled” a couple of times and maybe drank a few cups of ocean water – but she really loved it. I am guessing next year she will be out on her own board by herself.
It was so much fun, a lot of hard work, and by the end of the day we all trooped home…exhausted.
Monday was spent mostly taking it easy and recovering. Just soaking up all the Daddy we can get.
I hate it when a holiday falls on a Monday. It messes up our flow and I feel “off” for the rest of the week. And I’m sure the girls will be going through serious “daddy withdrawals” tomorrow.
*Sigh.*
But it was all so worth it.
How we spent the “last weekend of summer”
Note: This will not really be in essay form, so sorry to all you teachers out there, but I do have lots of visual aids (photos!) so maybe it will still make the grade?
The “last weekend of the summer” is such a misnomer around here, since we are going on at least a week straight of 100+ (usually 105) degree days here in the valley. Yes, it’s true we don’t have humidity, but dang, it is H-O-T!
So our gracious neighbors left for the weekend to go to the desert (where it is actually cooler, believe it or not!), and we had to poolsit catsit for their kitties, which of course meant we had to test out the pool, too. Emma completed her level of swim lessons last week, so she got to show-off a little for Daddy.
Little side note for a second – she is AWESOME in the pool. I was in serious amazement on Friday when they took the kids over to the “big” pool for their last swim lesson. Em jumped off the diving board by herself, no life jacket, no swimmies, nothing! And then she proceeded to swim, over to the lifeguard and side of the pool. Face in the water, stroking, kicking, by herself! It was really something to watch. I think another 2 weeks and she would be full-on swimming laps. It is crazy, but those swim lessons were the best $30 ever spent. (So cheap, too!!)
So anyhow, Daddy got to hang out and see her swim. We ran some errands and just tried to stay cool on Saturday.
Sunday, Uncle Jeff and Wendy invited us down to her Uncle’s beachhouse…soooo nice! So we spent the day at the nice, cool beach. Well, it was still warm, but the water was perfect, big waves, nice breeze. It was heavenly.
Addie pretty much kept it on the sand –
But she was very excited and wished Daddy, Mommy and Emma “Good Luck” when we all tried our hand at boogie-boarding.
Daddy is an “old pro” at this. He got all of the rest of us on boards and helped us get the hang of it.
And guess who is great at it? Yep, our little “fishy.”
I think she even got “rolled” a couple of times and maybe drank a few cups of ocean water – but she really loved it. I am guessing next year she will be out on her own board by herself.
It was so much fun, a lot of hard work, and by the end of the day we all trooped home…exhausted.
Monday was spent mostly taking it easy and recovering. Just soaking up all the Daddy we can get.
I hate it when a holiday falls on a Monday. It messes up our flow and I feel “off” for the rest of the week. And I’m sure the girls will be going through serious “daddy withdrawals” tomorrow.
*Sigh.*
But it was all so worth it.
Don’t Peek! – Best Shot Monday
My favorite shot from our playgroup/reunion in SF last week. I was hiding this old Easter egg around the yard for them to find. I told them to turn and face the fence and “don’t peek!” While I was trying to find a tricky spot to hide the egg, I looked up and saw this little line-up…
…but they weren’t peeking! I especially love the two little ones on either end “hiding” their eyes, too. Trying to be like the big girls.
Be sure to swing by Tracey’s for more Best Shot Monday photos!
Don’t Peek! – Best Shot Monday
My favorite shot from our playgroup/reunion in SF last week. I was hiding this old Easter egg around the yard for them to find. I told them to turn and face the fence and “don’t peek!” While I was trying to find a tricky spot to hide the egg, I looked up and saw this little line-up…
…but they weren’t peeking! I especially love the two little ones on either end “hiding” their eyes, too. Trying to be like the big girls.
Be sure to swing by Tracey’s for more Best Shot Monday photos!
Weekend Ramblings…Getting Caught Up
Sorry for the slight lapse in posts, my faithful readers, but it appears that the last week of August has flown by and we have been crazy busy around here. All very fun stuff, but busy nonetheless. We have a Small Change update coming soon, and a Best Shot Monday, and I’m sure some other fun stuff, too. So stay tuned.
We had a great time in SF. I am working on photos, maybe I will actually get them posted tomorrow. I have an absolute favorite that I am saving for BSM – yes, my girls are in it, of course, but it also has all of their newfound friends they made in SF. At one point there were six girls, ages 5, 4, 3.5, 3, 2, and 4 months and one little boy, age 2, who was thinking it was pretty hip to be surrounded by all of those girls. My girls had a great time, and Em even asked me on the way home when we can go back to visit San Francisco again. So, yes, it was a successful trip.
And it was so great to see my “girls,” too! It was like we had never all left our old jobs, had kids, moved halfway across the United States and back again, we just fell back into step. Check out the photo Em took of us…
Pretty darn good photo, huh? And some good lookin’ Mamas, too!
So anyways, we are back, and we have Daddy home ALL weekend long. So you can understand why there hasn’t been, and will not be, many posts for the next few days. We are soaking up as much Daddy as we can.
Hope your weekend is relaxing and fun, too!