April 20, 2007

It's springtime! My snow crab is blooming! (Alex - I see why it's called a snow crab, it looks like there's snow on it).



Ok, it's kinda hard to see the blooms in that picture, but you can see how I would have a good view of the mountains if there weren't trees in the way.

Here's blooms:



And Crissy requested a picture of a Colorado blue sky:



7:00 Drop off.

7:15 Breakfast - blueberries and oatmeal.

8:00 Changed a poopy. I think Jeremy had to change a poopy 4 times this week!

8:45 Left for preschool. Ariel fell asleep in the car.

9:00 Got to preschool, Ariel stayed asleep when I put her in the stroller.

9:30 PALS - Ariel slept through most of it. Like this:



And here's Mae either pondering or sampling the play-doh:



10:10 Ariel finally woke up. She spent the rest of PALS on my lap, but she seemed to enjoy watching the other kids.

11:10 Left for lunch. Very yummy eggs florentine for me. I'm turning into a hollandaise sauce addict, I need to put an end to that.

I gave Ariel some oatmeal and a spoon but she used the spoon as a device to spread oatmeal all over the table and I don't think she put any in her mouth.

12:30 Back to preschool for Shabbat sing. Ariel really liked it again. Mostly, she was just happy to see Alex (or so I gather from her very enthusiastic "Alec!")

1:30 After playing outside for a bit, Ellen and I came up with a plan. It was such a nice day, we thought everyone should play outside. So I was to go home and get the boys' bikes and then go to Ellen's house for a playdate. And since we can't go anywhere together anymore without our kids riding in each other's cars, she had Alex and Adam and I got Sam and Mae. And somehow, my normal 10 minute drive took 30 minutes. I hit about 4 lights that I had to wait several rotations. God bless Boulder. Sam and Mae both fell asleep. Ariel did not, she kept trying to tell Mae about her Elmo mirror.

2:30 Finally got to Ellen's house. Of course Sam and Mae woke up. I think they work up when I put the bikes in my car and Ariel starting throwing a fit because she wanted to play with them. It was a, uh, piercing, scream.

And then the bike thing didn't go as well as planned. We went up to the end of Ted's street. He rode up, then rode home and got his scooter, then rode home and never came back. Sam and Alex decided they were hungry. Adam did well as long as he stayed away from any hills.



Ariel thought she was da bomb with her own bike:



I did put sunscreen on her and I tried to get her to wear Alex's hat, but she, uh, refused. Many many times.

3:15 Ended back at Ellen's house. The boys ate corn dogs.

3:45 Left.

4:00 Becky picked up Ariel at Target-ole.