May 15, 2006

Happy Day After Mother's Day!

I hope you had a good weekend. Ours was busy but fun. On Saturday, Alex, Adam and I met Grandma and Grandpa, and Becky, Carl and Ariel at the hospital. We looked at my picture again, then we went to the hospital's block party. It was pretty cool, lots of free food and free games with prizes (we saw Crissy's family there too).

Alex tried cotton candy for the first time:



Ariel and Mommy



There was face painting, but Adam wanted a dinosaur on his hand:



Can you guess who this masked bandit is?



More Ariel and Mommy:



Sunday morning, we met Grammie and Pop-Pop and Sarah back at the hospital.



Here's a better picture of me with my picture:



After everyone looked at all the pictures, we had lunch at a nearby restaurant.

Family photo:



And the best Mother's Day present ever, two napping boys who stayed asleep even after we got home:





In the evening, we all went over to Aunt Laura's for my side of the family's Mother's Day celebration.



Ariel wasn't impressed, she fell asleep.



Here's just a pretty picture of a rose:



We had our normal Mexican Fiesta dinner, and Laura made one of her fabulous cakes:



Hmm, somehow I did not get a picture of my mom. Oop. Though Dad, I know you were taking pictures so you'll have to share.

7:05 Drop off. The boys built a fort around Ariel, which she tolerated for a bit.

7:20 In the bjorn

8:00 Asleep in the bjorn

I had the boys making some cards for their cousins. I turned my back for one second, and Adam decided that his face would make a better palette:



Good thing these are washable markers.

And Alex's latest project... It's becoming apparent that the avacado seed he planted in the garden is probably not going to sprout. So we are going to try and sprout one inside, then plant it in a pot. Alex is glued to it, waiting patiently for it to start getting roots. I'm trying to figure out how many minutes of quiet time this is going to buy me:



9:15 Wake up, 4 oz bottle

9:35 6 Month picture taking commences. I sent the boys in the backyard, where Alex immediately turned on the hose. That went fine until he dumped a bucket of water on Adam's head. Then as soon as I set Ariel up to take pictures, she toppled over and hit her head (not very heard, mind you) and cried for a bit. I finally managed to control the circus enough to get some shots. I took 66 pictures, these are the only ones I even kinda like.







Becky, you might want to plan on coming over after work and helping with shoot #2...

10:30 Ariel was pretty worn out from the excitment, fell right asleep in the bjorn.

11:15 Wake up, bottle

11:30 I tried some pictures again, but nothing turned out great. I'm just having an off day.

12:00 We took a little walk to pick up some pictures for Becky (and Grannie Shirley). Also mailed a letter.

1:00 Home. Ariel hung out in the swing for a bit.

1:30 Bottle

1:45 Nap in bed

2:30 Becky showed up. We were going to try pictures again, but I got some dust on my camera mirror and I can't get it off. I need to get it looked at professionally before I break something.

And Laura...