Oh, my beloved iPhone. I am so glad you are around to feed my desire to document due to a fear that I will one day forget all this due to lack of sleep. With Danny's 3rd birthday approaching I am keenly aware this also means it has been almost 3 years since Dan & I had uninterrupted sleep. Oh, Michelle! Why do you have to be so much like me in that respect?!?
Dan did a magnificent job heading up the project to put a sandbox under the play set in my parents' back yard. The rope swing was an impulse buy at Home Depot & a tremendous hit with Kaelah.
Speaking of Kaelah, she decided she didn't like her 16" bike & wanted a princess scooter like she saw a neighbor girl riding. So I told her if I could sell the bike she could have the scooter. Sold it on Craigslist and she couldn't be happier. I was expecting at least a tad of buyer's remorse, but not a drop! She really honestly did not like her bike anymore. I don't think I will ever figure this person out.
I'm including this photo not as black mail, but as a reminder to write about Michelle's potty training. This January I began training Danny with a determination that we would be completely diaper free by August. He did even better than I dreamed, especially for a boy so young, and then Michelle decided this was something she could do to. She was completely accident free at 24-months for 2 weeks. Then my in-laws came to visit. She had an accident, and then 2, then 4, and eventually (over a week) completely regressed back to diapers like nothing had ever happened. I would love to blame it on my mother-in-law, but they were only here for 3 days! Weird. Yet another thing I will never understand. So this time I initiated it and we started all over. As of today, she's been accident free for a few days, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that this time (at 26 months) it will stick. If so, I have bought my last diapers and am rather sad about that but super amazed by this little one.
Here's a funny little story for you. The fact that I got such a kick out of it reminds me of just how repetitive life can be as a stay at home mom. This spring I noticed a patch of grass not growing well. I had noticed that last year as well, but this year, the grass was dead in a perfect rectangle. Now, I have quite a bit of dead grass around, but only one rectangle. So one day I decided to dig it up & reseed. Low & behold what did I find under there? An electric box! We've lived here for 7 years & it has never seen the light of day that we know of. I asked my neighbor in the blue house what to do & when he didn't know (he & his wife are who I ask most of my yard questions to) I figured it was time to call the power company. The children had a blast watching the men work to raise the box to the height of the grass. Those workers couldn't have been nicer. And guess what? Now when I walk to the park I notice these electric boxes all over the place. The things you learn in your old age, huh?
In May we went to the zoo again. I am about zoo-ed out. This was a special trip b/c we went with my friend Marie & her children. Here they are all lined up. I don't know why I find pictures like these so darn irresistible. Perhaps it catches the innocence and wonder of childhood for me? That would be a little deep for my blog.
I have been full of bad ideas lately. One of them was picking out a date activity that required us to run 5k with absolutely no training or prep on our part. It hurt. I am in worse shape than I was last year. But instead of encouraging me to exercise at the gym, I've decided I hate running and just want to play tennis the rest of my life. (Which, luckily, my parents allowed Dan & I to do by babysitting for us once this month. It was so much fun! And eating at Deli Zone afterward wasn't bad either.)
Need I say more?
I have a lot of favorite pictures from taking Meigo to Coot Lake for the first time this year. It was exhausting to keep track of those 4 but so worth the photo ops. Some of the pictures were big hits on Facebook too. It always makes me happy to feel like maybe I brightened someone else's day by sharing.
Sprinklers! I thought this girl was pretty young to have this technique down already.
And that Danny's Avenger shoes he picked out must be giving him super strength for his age.
Action shot! Kaelah hopping after a frog. Just before this the children & were walking down the sidewalk behind our house. There was a woman walking ahead of us & I thought it was funny she didn't have her black lab on a leash. And then Kaelah figured out it was Meigo! That dog has been so naughty lately: digging out the trash cans, running away, eating the children's food right off their plates.... Yet, she is terrific: I couldn't ask for a more patient dog.
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