Mar. 29, 2006

Roses are red,
Vikings are Norse,
thanks to my dear sisterina Becky,
I saved some money - on Starbucks of course.

7:00 Drop off one happy baby and one mocha.

7:15 Baby slighly less happy, but I was trying to make Adam's eggs for breakfast (which he didn't eat) so Uncle Jeremy held Ariel for a bit. It's my new plan to either get him out of the house in the morning, or have him be useful. He gets up at 5:30, so I think he could be out the door by 7:00.



Nothing like an Uncle Jeremy to make Ariel look even smaller than she is.

7:30 I tried to lay Ariel down for a nap, but no go.

7:45 Bjorn - asleep.

8:15 Ariel woke up, I tried to get some pictures before she ate. Adam wanted in on the action:



8:30 3oz bottle - pretty spitty. And my first round of tag team crying baby. Adam was crying about wanted to take a nap.

9:15 See, I was actually planning on going to Starbucks today. Starbucks is next to the library, which was having storytime today. So we started walking to the library. Alex was walking, Ariel and Adam were in the stroller.

9:35 Alex wanted in the stroller. He walked pretty far, maybe close to a mile. I hope by the end of the summer he can walk at least there, about 2 miles.

10:00 Get to the library. See, spring really is coming. Look at this daffodils. And did you know Clifford has a bunny friend named Daffodil? Neither did I.



We also came to the library to get books about bats. Alex LOVES bats, or so he'll tell you.

10:15 Storytime. Both the boys really enjoyed it and Adam amazed me by sitting quietly through most of it.

11:00 Storytime over, we checked out our books and thought about our next move.

11:15 Lunch at Cicis. I walked in and said, "One adult please." And then Alex walked up and said, "Hi, I'm four" (which happens to be the age that children have to play). I played dumb and asked if I needed to pay for him too, but she let us all in on my buffet. I have a feeling she felt slightly sorry for me.

11:20 Ariel finally woke up and had her next bottle. The boys had pizza and pasta.

11:40 After Ariel finished, I propped her up in a high chair. She really liked looking around:



12:00 Of coures we had to wander by Michael's, which is next door. I got a St. Patrick's day welcome sign for next year, on clearance for $1.94. I'm so excited that I can brag about that here since Jeremy swore the blog off, he will hate it!

12:15 Left for home.

1:00 Got home. I played with Ariel for a bit, while Adam slept in the stroller and Alex played outside (his bee house needs more contruction).



1:15 My favorite part of the day thus far. Adam woke up just as Ariel (recently changed with new clothes and diaper) needed to eat. Adam cried. Ariel cried. Neither would obey my "only one crying kid at a time" rule. And on and on. We finally got it sorted and I learned that if Ariel is positioned right she can hold her own bottle. Way to go, Ariel. And boo on you, Adam.

2:00 Break out the big guns - Kisses. Ahh, I feel better now, and I bet Adam does too.

2:45 Put in a Bob the Builder video so I could get a moment of peace. Ariel finally fell asleep in the bjorn.

3:00 Finishing up this entry, smells like Adam has soiled himself. Yay!

3:10 Yep, a big poopy for Adam. And changing him woke Ariel. But I think I have time to share my Adam trivia. See, to entice the Bare Bottom Bandit to wear diapers, I started showing him the characters on them. He decided that he only likes Big Bird diapers. Maybe I can eBay my Elmo and Cookie Monster diapers so get more Big Bird ones, cause I can tell you there aren't that many in a pack.

3:30 Bottle

4:00 As a last ditch hope for some sanity, we went outside in the front yard. Luckily our neighbors were out too, so I really did get some peace. All four boys were playing really well together, amazing since they are 5,4,3 and almost 2.

4:30 Pick up. And not a moment too soon. I almost put my zen garden out again with a new sign - "Free Mini Zen Rock Garden + child, your choice"

PS Later, my neighbor got me a beer. That's just what I needed to relax enough to make dinner. Thanks, neighbor!

PPS - Anyone want a free zen rock garden?

Mar. 28, 2006

Tally-ho and good morning. Not sure what we are doing today, but despite Alex's pleading I do know we are NOT going back to the zoo.

7:00 Drop off. I was running really late today. Luckily Ariel was asleep and stayed asleep for the most part (I did hear her peep a bit, but she went back to sleep).

8:00 Jeremy was hanging around this morning because he has some plan of bike riding after work yada yada. Whatever, I had him take the boys outside so I could work on today's suduko puzzle. I have no idea why I've been getting Tuesday paper all of a sudden, but at least I'm not paying for it. And this was an easy puzzle and after 30 minutes I found I screwed up. I'm a suduko failure! (though I did finish that hard one I started yesterday.)

8:30 Ariel woke up, 3 oz bottle. Pretty spitty.

8:55 Exosaucer

9:15 Bjorn

9:30 Here's what's cooking at my house. The Bare Bottom Bandit is raiding the silverware drawer:



Alex is insisting that we get a real baby chicken so he can put it in this fine nest he constructed:



9:35 Ariel asleep in bjorn. I surfed the interweb and then messed around with my camera.

10;15 Ariel woke up.

10:35 Messed around with Ariel and my camera:







10:50 3oz bottle. Less spitty.

Hello? [tap tap] Is this thing on? Where is everyone? Someone make a comment please!!!

(Thanks for throwing me a bone. Apparently I'm needy today.)

11:05 Bjorn.

11:45 The big people ate lunch.

12:30 I tried to put Adam down for his nap with Ariel in the swing, but Adam didn't fall asleep and Ariel started fussing.

12:45 Plan B - Outside



12:50 Before Ariel was really excited about Plan B, she needed her bottle. I forgot and gave her 4 oz. Becky, I really think she's doing better on 3. I'd rather give her 4 3oz bottles than 3 4 oz bottles. Can you make her bottles 3oz please?

Ariel hung out fo a bit while the boys dug in the garden (Alex is making a bee home, whatever than means) and I actually potted the spider plants I've had in water for months.



1:30 Ariel was done, so we went inside. Before I took down my set-up, I did a few more pictures.



1:55 Asleep in bjorn again.

2:15 Ok, we finally got out of the house. We walked to the ice cream parlor and since Alex walked it wasn't really exercise, but it was getting out in the fresh air. I had s'mores ice cream and Alex had vanilla. I'm begining to suspect he's not my child.

Next we ran into the yarn store because I needed a new yarn needle. The lovely yarn store ladies gave me one for free. See, that's what you get when you are a regular customer. Special treatment. And I do feel special.

And last, we ran into the grocery store so I could get Adam a free cookie (he doesn't like ice cream at all, DEFINATELY not my child). I also somehow ended up with a bag of Kisses and a bag of Peanut Butter Kisses. It would have been wrong to get a cookie without buying anything, right?

And then we walked home. Slower than we walked there, despite my efforts to convince Alex he was a bat and to fly home as fast as he could.

4:00 2 oz bottle. It was going to be a 3 oz bottle, but somehow I didn't screw the nipple on, so after I shook it and took the cap off, there was nothin' up there and I pour an ounce on my pants and the chair. At least I didn't get Ariel in the face, which is what should have happened if I had any sort of aim.

And Becky, there's a perfectly logical reason why your daughter's head is red and smells like salad dressing. See, I started picking at her cradle cap. She didn't mind, really, and it made me so happy. So then I decided to do it the right way, I put vegetable oil on her hair, then massaged it with a baby brush. You might want to bath her tonight, she a tad slimy. And don't let Carl hurt me, I swear she's fine.

4:30 Pick up. On small baby with a red head.

PS - I didn't find her cranky at all today. About average, I'd say.

Mar. 27, 2006

First off, the results from this week's Suduko challenge. I didn't hear from anyone else, so I declare myself the winner! Go me!!!

Me: 30 minutes - 2 wrong numbers. Woohoo!

(I suppose if you can beat that time, I will allow you back into the challenge. But you have to do the puzzle, then report your time back. All of yous.)

7:05 Drop off. Ariel was actually asleep and stayed asleep. I tried to redeem my poor Suduko Challenge showing by doing the Denver Post Sunday one. Um, I'm still working on it, and I'm not timing myself. It's rated hard!!!

8:10 Ariel woke up. I brought her out for the boys to talk to while I continued to work on my very important puzzle.

8:20 Bottle. I'm trying 3 oz again today. Ariel did not eat nearly as enthusiastically as usual, and left 1/2 ounce.

8:35 Commence Project Go To Zoo. Lunch packing, etc.

9:15 Leaving for the zoo. I imagine we won't be back for a while, so have a good day!

9:30 Well, I thought I was leaving, but then Crissy called from vacation (hi Crissy!) and then my yoga teacher called to say yoga was cancelled (I'm ok with that). So now we left.

10:15 Get to the zoo. Adam wanted to see the punkeys (monkeys - it's super cute) and Alex wanted to see the bats and ride the merry-go-round. We headed to the monkeys first.

11:00 Ariel had her first bottle. While I was feeding her, this very brave and nervy squirrel stole our sandwich!!!



(This is after I moved our lunch, he's coming back for more. The nerve!) A kind woman retrieved it for me but he had breached the bag so I threw it away. Damn you squirrel!!!

After her bottle, Ariel rode around with the Adam-nator in the stroller:





Then we had to wander all the way across the zoo, to see the bats in Tropical Discovery. I couldn't get a picture since it was very dark, but here's Adam checking out a komodo dragon:



After Tropical Discovery, we walked by the Big Cats.

1:00 We parked in front of this jaguar while Ariel had her next bottle:



We picked this spot because it was the most interesting. This jaguar was making a sound I've never heard any cat make - "heh heh heh heh" or possibly "huh huh huh huh." I got it on video, but I didn't upload it.

1:20 Now we headed back across the zoo for the merry-go-round and the train.

1:45 Frist we rode the train ("choo choo ding ding")



Then we rode the merry-go-round. Alex chose a jaguar, which I see I didn't get in the picture. Adam had a rhino (he had no choice, it was the animal next to Alex's):



And last, we found the flamingoes, which were hiding out in their winter quarters:



I was going to take more pictures, but taking three kids to the zoo is not as easy as it sounds.

2:15 You know it's time to leave when no one is having fun anymore. Adam tripped right by the Flamingoes and it sent him into a tired never-ending cry. Wahhhh!

2:30 Leave. Adam fell asleep quickly, so Alex started wailing (wahhhh!) because I yelled at him for stepping on Ariel's toy. And I might have threatened to not bring him back to the zoo this year (not very Love & Logic, I know).

2:45 Miraculously, they both fell asleep, so of course Ariel had to start crying. Wahhhhhh!

3:00 I wanted to get the sweet picture of Adam and Alex sleeping, but thought it would be better if I wasn't going 65 MPH while operating my camera. By the time I got off the highway, Alex was waking up.



3:05 Get home - Ariel had next 3 oz bottle. I left Adam sleeping in the garage, and just as I got in to turn the monitor on he was already awake and screaming. The only good part of this was that Alex walked in and said, "I had too much fun today" and I told him to lay down on his bed and he did. So then I was trying to feed Ariel with Adam crying on me. Right after she was done, I put her in the swing so that I could comfort Adam and it worked.

4:00 Ariel fell asleep in the bjorn.

4:25 Pick up. I think I had too much fun today too.

Mar. 24, 2006

7:05 Drop off, awake. I encouraged her to go back to sleep in the carseat, but no dice.

7:15 Bjorn

8:15 Wake up. I put her in the swing while I made Adam breakfast.

8:25 Bottle. I'm experimenting today. Ariel has been so spitty this week, that I'm dropping down to 3oz per feeding to see if that helps.

8:45 Hung out in the exosaurer with Crunch Bug:


The Bare Bottom Bandit found a pair of Alex's underwear from the clean basket (that I have yet to put away) and decided they were just the fashion accessory he needed:



9:10 Dang, Ariel is cranky today.

9:20 Asleep in bjorn. We need to have some sort of fabulous adventure today. It doesn't seem quite warm enough for outside fabulous adventures though so the zoo is out. But something... we must leave the house soon...

9:45 Mr. Kevin (but you can just call me Kevin) dropped off Adam's blanket that he had left at Crissy's house yesterday. Tell Mr. Kevin thanks again for me, Crissy, and let him know he got an honorable mention in the blog.

9:50 Finally got my act ready enough to get out of the house. Our fabulous adventure? Walking to Starbucks. Ok, so that's not very fabulous, but I couldn't come up with anything else, probably because I didn't have any caffeine in my system.

10:30 Get to Starbucks. I had my regular grande half-caf soy mocha at 145 with whipped cream, Ariel had another 3 oz bottle. At least 3 people made the. "Boy you have your hands full but you finally got a girl" comment.

And I'd like to add an excited triva question to this exciting blog. I just ordered 6 of 7 towards my ___ free Starbucks. Make a guess in the comments, I'll reveil the answer on Monday. The winner gets.... I don't know, I'll think of something.

And here are the boys driving a shopping cart:


10:50 Just as we were about to go to the library, I ran into Kayleigh and Zeke. Now this is the weird part of my day. Kayleigh's family moved to Alaska a bit over a year ago, and I haven't seen or heard from her since. But this morning when I was trying to decide where to go, I was looking at these pictures on Alex and Adam at seven months on my counter...





... and I suddenly thought of Kayleigh and Zeke, and how Zeke would be about 27 months old and how I haven't seen him in a long time. I don't what in the picutres triggered it, other than the ones of Adam were taken in December 2004, when Kayleigh and I hung out a bit during the holidays. So it was really weird to see Kayleigh in Safeway.

And that's not my only weird Kayleigh story. See, Jeremy used to work with Kayleigh's husband Brian. Jeremy is a tad introverted, so we had never hung out as couples but Jeremy had told me about them. When Adam was 2 months old, I decided to go to a La Leche League meeting to talk about Adam's reflux and nursing issues. The meeting turned out to be at Kayleigh's house and even though we had never met before, I figured out who she was. We aren't close friends, but we did see each other at LLL meeting and occassionally have playgroups. Kayleigh is just here visiting her mother so she hasn't moved back.

11:00 I talked Kayleigh into coming to the library with us (where I changed Ariel's diaper and clothes). We hung out a bit and read some book (and I have pictures and video but I haven't downloaded it yet).

Ok, now it's downloaded. Here they are at the library:




And here's a video of Ariel "talking" (Crissy, this one is especially for you). Let me know if you can see it:

Video

11:30 Kayleigh invited us back to her mom's house, which was close by. We walked there, and played in the backyard for a bit. Adam was enamoured with their corgi.

1:00 I fed Ariel another 3 oz bottle just as we were getting ready to go. And then Alex spilled his Starbucks milk all over the floor.

1:15 Finally left Kayleigh and Zeke.

2:15 Got home. Adam fell asleep in the stroller and is still napping. Ariel was sleeping the whole walk and stayed asleep too.

3:30 As usual, both Adam and Ariel woke at the same time. Adam was not placated by the bowl of mac & cheese I offered, so I had to hold him while I fed Ariel her 3 oz bottle.

3:45 Ariel hung out in the exosaurer, then the swing, while I held Adam.

4:00 Pick up.

Anyone want a free mini zen rock garden?

Mar. 23, 2006

7:05 Drop off.

7:15 Getting Ariel down for a nap is getting harder. She fussed again but finally fell asleep in Adam's bed.

7:20 Nap

8:10 Wake up, bottle.

8:40 Fun time with Super-G

Ariel liked looking at the pinwheels the boys got yesterday at the Butterfly Pavillion




I used my free time to do such fabulous chores as changing Adam's poopy diaper and cleaning up (and updating the blog, of course).

9:30 Nap. She went down much easier this time. I got to knit a bit while Grammie and Adam played with trucks.

10:30 Bottle.

10:50 Swing time while I got Adam down for a nap (and it worked!!!!)

11:10 Diaper and clothes change

11:20 Ariel lay on her blanket for a while. I had the pinwheel again, I was trying to get her to roll from back to front. She was tracking it and started to reach for it, but no across the body reaching, or attempted rolling.

11:35 Bjorn.

11:50 Asleep in bjorn. I was able to sit and knit a bit more.

12:35 I had to wake Adam and Ariel so we could get Alex from school. I was going to pack Adam a little lunch, but it turns out we have no bread. How could this happen????

1:00 Pick up from school. Miraculously they weren't cranky when we had to get out of the car.

1:25 Last time to see Crissy and Gavin before their trip. Crissy had a few minutes of quality Ariel play time before she was ready for her bottle.

1:42 Bottle. And I fed her, Crissy had to make her own lunch. Adam and I ate lunch too (Crissy, thanks for letting us mooch off of you, AGAIN.)

2:15 Ariel was happy on a soft blanket on the floor, watching everyone.

2:40 Go home. Adam forgot his blankie. Dang.

2:50 I thought I was going to Whole Foods for bread and dinner, but Ariel fell asleep in the car and I couldn't bring myself to wake her.

3:10 Get home, Ariel stayed asleep.

3:30 Ariel woke up.

3:40 2oz bottle

4:00 The Bare Bottom Bandit strike again:



He sat on the potty many time, yet not a drop of pee ended up in there. But as least as far as I can see, it didn't end up anywhere else, either.

4:30 Pick up.

PS My dear sweet Jeremy picked up some bread and dinner on the way home from work. Isn't he the best husband evah?

Mar. 22, 2006

Good Morning Everyone!

7:00 A very smiley Ariel was dropped off.

7:10 Again, I left her in the carseat, put a blanket over it and she went back to sleep.

I'm getting out my camera early today.

Alex is walking around with Black Bunny in the sling my mom made for him. I guess he doesn't spend ALL his time making guns or shooting guns:


Adam is having hot cereal for breakfast. He's finally dressed, he was didn't like my first few choices. Apparently he'll only wear truck shirts now, which is a bit of a problem, he only owns three:


And here's dear sweet Jeremy using a snake to unclog our toliet. I'm not posting the one finger wave one, but I think it's obvious he's not having fun. And for the record, I didn't do it. It was Alex. And our toliet sucks. Or rather, our toliet doesn't suck hard enough.


8:10 Wake up, bottle.

8:35 Picture time!

"Hey, maybe I don't want you taking my picture all the flipping time."


"Just kidding, I love getting my picture taken because I'm so pretty."


And while I was doing picture, the boys were drawing. Alex wrote my name for the first time!


9:50 Ariel back in the bjorn.

9:15 Ariel and Adam played a fun game I like to call, "Screaming baby tag team." I was pretty sure that Ariel wanted to nap, and Adam was pretty sure he wanted to cuddle in bed. I tried to get Ariel to go down in the crib, and cuddle with Adam, but it wasn't working for either of them.

9:00 Too much wailing, I gave up and put Ariel back in the bjorn. Adam eventually lost interest and wandered off to see what Alex was up too.

10:00 Crissy and Gavin came over. Crissy was completely dejected, she tried to get coffee at Peaberry's but went to the wrong one, which was already gutted to be turned into a Starbucks. She didn't realize that the other store was the one that is going to stay open.

10:15 Super Grammie showed up, and gave Crissy and I her blessing to go get coffee. I tried to move sleeping Ariel to Adam's bed, but she woke up. Since she was awake, she got to come along on our Starbucks adventure.

10:30 Starbucks. I was feeling a bit frisky today so I ordered a cinnamon dolce latte. I'm crazy! Crissy was just glad to be able to hold Ariel. Crissy is going away for spring break and is already going through Ariel withdrawl:



And here's Ariel in her ever-so-cute pink snowsuit (which, Becky, desperatly needs a washing now.)



10:45 Crissy fed Ariel her bottle.

11:00 In order to keep Ariel upright, I suggested going to Michael's. But neither of us needed anything, so Crissy had the much better idea of going to the library to get audio books for her trip. Ariel didn't think much of this idea and spit up most of her bottle, on herself (hence the need for the pink snowsuit to be washed), on Crissy (yay, not me!) and on the floor (eh, how clean could a library floor be anyway?).

11:30 We walked over to Crissy's bank so she could make a deposit. Crissy was pretty happy to get to hold Ariel AND run errands. Oh, and Ariel spit up a whole lot more.

12:15 We got home, Crissy changed a wet diaper and then I tried to put Ariel down for a nap.

12:40 Ariel just been fussy today when I tried to get her to sleep. She finally went down, but not without a fight.

1:15 Ariel woke up, just as Adam was drifting off. I left him to get her, thinking he would go back to sleep, but he just cried.

1:25 Grammie and Alex came back from the park. I roped Grammie into feeding Ariel so I could try and get Adam down again.

1:40 Adam did not go back down. Ariel spit up all over Grammie. Good thing she's a super Grammie and didn't care.

1:45 Threw in a load of wash so sweet Ariel would have a clean snowsuit to wear home. And for some reason, all my burp clothes are soaking wet, so they are in the wash too.

1:50 With Adam and Alex back at the park with Super Grammie, I was able to get Ariel back in the bjorn and asleep.

3:00 Peace at last. Super G took the boys to the Butterfly Pavillion and Ariel slept on my while I watched an episode of Grey's Anatomy. Ahhhhhh.

3:40 I have Ariel a 2 oz bottle to tide her over till she gets home.

Mar. 21, 2006

I set a new record last night. This seems to happen to me every few weeks. I'll be putting Adam to bed and just crash. And yesterday was the worst ever. Adam fell asleep in the car coming home from our playdate. I got him tucked into bed, but when he woke up at 6:00pm he was really cranky. I thought he might need to just get into bed, even without dinner. So I was putting him to bed and fell asleep. Probably at 6:30. Kinda missed my yoga class there. And since I got up at 6:00am and feel pretty good, I guess I needed it. But dang, 6:30 is pretty early to go to bed, even for Adam.

7:00 Drop off.

7:15 I left Ariel in her carseat, moved her to Adam's room, put a blanket over the seat and she want back to sleep.

8:40 Ariel stay asleep until it was time to take Alex to preschool.

9:05 As per our Tuesday routine, Adam and I (and Ariel) hung out in Alex's preschool room (his class was playing in the gym, usually they are outside) while we waited for Adam's baby preschool to start. I gave Ariel her bottle then.

9:30 Time for Adam's baby preschool. I forgot my camera, but as far as Ariel's concerned, it wasn't very exciting. She played with her flutter bug for a bit, then fell asleep in the bjorn. Adam's class was small today, probably due to the weather and spring break. Adam played with pinto beans and cups in a big tub, molded playdoh and shot trucks down a ramp. For snack, he had delicious store brand graham crackers.

11:00 Ariel was just starting to wake up when it was time to go home.

11:20 We got home. The plan was for Crissy to hang out with Ariel while I got Adam to nap, then I could pick Alex up from preschool without disturbing Ariel or Adam. What really happened... Adam had mac & cheese for lunch while I fed Ariel...

11:45 Crissy and Gavin showed up. I tried to put Adam down and I think he was sleepy, but he also had to poop. I was about asleep myself (guess I didn't get enough sleep last night) and then I had to change his diaper. At this point, I gave up on a nap.

12:25 Gave up on getting Adam to nap, instead we ran to Safeway for Starbucks (if I'm not getting a nap, I need caffeine) and milk (you know you've put off shopping too long when you are out of milk).

1:00 Picked Alex up from school. Talked with his teacher about possibly taking the guinea pig home for spring break.

1:25 Got back home. Crissy said Ariel slept the whole time we were gone. When I peeked in, she was awake. I thought it was a bit early for a bottle, so I put her in the bjorn.

1:45 Alex was so excited that I bought waffles with the milk that he ate nearly half the box. He does love his waffle.

1:50 Ariel fell asleep in the bjorn.

2:00 I played around with Crissy's latest Michael's find. It's Creating Keepsakes Creative Lettering Combo and it's WAY cool. If anything, after my 40% off coupon, I got a bunch of new fonts for $12. But look how cute this font is:



You can change the fill color (in this font, the yellow) and the secondary color (in this font, the green). And the fonts are also on my hard drive so my other imaging programs can use them too.

I also like the journalette boxes:



I definately think Ariel's name will be super cute on her next collage.

Ok, so I need more comments. I know I've reverted to boring again, but I'm more exciting (or so I like to believe) when I think I have an audience. So comment away please!

2:30 Friends Zach and Josh came over for a playdate.

2:45 Ariel woke up. She didn't seemed starved yet, so she did a little tummy time before her bottle. She didn't roll for me, but this is the happiest I've ever seen her on her belly:





3:02 Bottle. She actually kept most of this one down.

The boy's playdate went really well. The first thing they did was set up the pillow fort. Here's Zach carrying Adam around;



And Zach "shooting" me. What is it with boys and guns?



4:00 Josh and Zach went home. I tried putting Ariel in the carseat to go to sleep, but it didn't take.

4:10 Bjorn, Right to sleep of course. Adam and Alex watched a Dora video.

4:25 Pick up.

Mar. 20, 2006

First off, the Suduko Challenge Results!

First Place: Becky - 17:30
Second Place: Crissy - 21:20
Third Place: Me - 28:42

Dad, are you playing this week?

Before Becky got here, I started messing around with a possible business card for my possible biz:



8:20 Drop off. (Becky had a late start. It's an interesting story, but I'll let her tell it if she wants.)

8:30 Crissy and I hadn't seen each other since Saturday morning, so we had another playdate today. We went to her house.

9:00 I fed Ariel the bottle (because Crissy was making her latte)

10:15 Crissy put Ariel down for a nap in her room.

11:00 Ariel had a false alarm wake up, I put her in the bjorna and she went back to sleep. Crissy actually had some real work to do, so I got out her Suduko book (I'm not allowed to own my own, my rule) and did a few. Out of 3 puzzles, two ended in mistakes. So demoralizing!!!

12:00 Ariel woke up and I fed her another bottle (Crissy was making lunch).

1:00 I decided that we had probably imposed long enough, so we headed home real quick so I could pick up a few things before our next playdate.

1:45 Our next playdate at Stefan and Annika's house.

2:30 Ariel woke up from her car nap, fed her a bottle.

I took a ton of pictures today. I had my camera set on flourescent lighting, but everything is a bit yellow, I didn't use a flash.





Oh yeah, this is Ariel's blog. Well here she is. Becky, did you know she can sit in "gorilla" position for a bit? (She usually likes it more than this, but I wanted to get a picture.)









And Annika and Stefan:


4:05 Dropped Ariel off at Becky's work.

So yeah, I'm not posting this until 5:30 'cause we were gone all day. Sawry.