Personal Space

The kids have no concept of personal space. While I ate breakfast this morning, the baby knelt on my chair and sang in my ear. Joy.

In other news, our gas meter was moved today and tomorrow we start the excavation!

One on One

The baby and I went to the playground by ourselves tonight! It was nice to have some time alone with her.

She's completely absurd, and she loves her new sandals.

Carbonara

After polishing off the leftover spaghetti at dinner, the little guy wanted applesauce while the baby was willing to try the carbonara I'd made for dinner.

She gave it a thumbs up (which was so cute with her sweet little thumb)!

Sick Day

The baby was up sick last night, so we had a quiet, television-filled day. She even took a nap on me!

Drama

Baby Einsteins was pretty dramatic tonight:

What a cutie!

Kitchen Help

I've been making chocolate chip cookies every week so we have something sweet for our lunches. It's not that much work, and the kids take turns helping me.

What a little cheese-ball!

New Photographer!

The little guy has taken pictures for years (where did the time go?), but the baby picked up the camera this weekend and took a few shots of her daddy, me, and some furniture.

What talent!

Nutella-face

I was a phenomenal wife Saturday. I let Eric sleep in and then made biscuits, eggs, and bacon for breakfast. (We'll pretend I didn't burn the bacon, ok?) The baby had half a biscuit with nutella on it for second breakfast. Look at her little mustache!

I'm Hiding!

The baby likes to hide. She'll say "Look at me-- I'm going to hide!" She's been getting better at hiding, though. Here she is hiding on Sunday:

And here she is hiding earlier this afternoon:

That's actually pretty good!

It's Good

We bought a rug for the living room-- it should be delivered on Monday. Yay! The baby saw me measure the room to see what size rug we need, and then she measured the room. She'd stretch out the tape measure carefully and say "Yup. It's good." before rolling it back up.

She even measured the ceiling! It's also good, in case you were wondering.

Magic Show

The kids had a magic show at school and they loved it. The baby kept telling us about it, but all she was doing was holding her nose and saying something about a stinky sock. Then she'd bow and say "Thank you boys and girls!"
Ridiculous child.

T minus 2

The baby loves to sing a song from daycare that goes "(Name! Name!) Jump around! Jump around! (Name! Name!) Jump around! Jump around! Sit back down."

It's really cute, but kind of tiring when you keep hearing "Mommy! Mommy! Jump around!" Plus, she'll yell at you if you don't participate.

I tried to get her to change it to "clap around" tonight, which makes no sense but lets you keep sitting down.

I was briefly successful.

T minus 3

Thankfully the little dude is coming back Friday evening. The baby woke up this morning and just cried because he wasn't here. It's heartbreaking! We thought she'd enjoy being an 'only' child, but she misses him and is a bit jealous that she's not away with him.

She did have a nice time playing store/restaurant tonight with her little cash register and without any interference.

First Full Day

This was the first full day that the little dude was gone... and I made a dinner that he hates! The baby ate three servings, and then we went for a lovely walk.

I can't wait for him to come back, but I'm glad he's having such a good time.

Cupcakes!

The little guy is spending a week with his oldest cousin and his Nana and Pops. We are REALLY going to miss him, but are taking advantage of the opportunity to let the baby be the big girl. I asked her if she wanted anything special from the grocery store, and she said she wanted to decorate cupcakes.

Her wish is our command (limited time offer, some restrictions may apply).

Backwards

The baby is following her older brother's footsteps and taking an interest in the camera. Unfortunately, she has a hard time remembering which side takes the pictures and which side she's supposed to look through. See?

Reading!

The baby is "reading" books to us now... she'll grab a book, turn the pages, and tell you about what's going on in the book.

The best part is that it turns her into a real snuggle bunny.

Dollbaby

The little one is such a peanut! She's been sitting in her dolls' settee and calling it her couch.

I'm a little worried that she'll hit a growth spurt and the chair will fall to pieces.

p.s. Happy Father's Day! The little dude woke Eric up at 6am-ish to give him a purple box made from popsicle sticks. If that's not love, then I don't know what is.

Meltdown

I guess the baby was hot and tired tonight at yet another softball game. Another little girl gave her a water balloon, and she popped it on herself. Then she lost it. I ended up taking her home early-- thank goodness we had two cars at the game! The little guy stayed and watched the rest of the game.

Once the baby and I got home, we snuggled on the couch, watched a Daniel Tiger, and she ate a pop tart.

Poor baby.

This and That

The baby ate her broccoli tonight while pretending to be a brachiosaurus. The little guy did, too, but he finished his dinner before I got out the camera.

We I let the baby pick out the new bathmat for the downstairs bathroom. It makes my eyeballs bleed. It didn't look nearly as bright in the store, but my goodness.

My original plan was to paint the walls to match whatever bathmat we got, but I'm definitely rethinking that idea.