July 11, 2007

I finally had a day off yesterday and I had hoped to take the boys swimming. As luck would have it, it was in the 60's yesterday morning, so we did a bike ride instead. Still, it was nice not to have to carry Ariel while I pushed Adam on his bike.

7:00 Drop off.

7:15 Breakfast. Ariel ignored the apricots and ate 3/4s of each of her 4 mini waffles.

9:15 Left for the adventure of the day - riding bikes to the library. And not the close library, the library 2 miles away. So Alex rode, I pushed Adam on his bike and Ariel was on my back.

9:50 Got to the library a bit early so I mailed some packages and grabbed a Starbucks. Dorothy was there and she rocks. I told her I wanted 3 kid's chocolate milks, but only filled half way. She did that with sprinkles and whipped cream and only charged me for one kid's drink. And the size was perfect, all the kids finished with no spillage.

10:15 Storytime. I can't remember when Adam started sitting for Miss Judy, but Ariel's not there yet. She sat in all the different chairs, poked at Alex's helmet and camelback (which he was still wearing of course), found a computer to bang on and then ran around. Luckily the boys just sit there so I could leave them.

11:00 After storytime we went to Horizons and played at the playground. Ted and Sam and Mae happened to be there too. So was a miniature yorkie named Kiwi (unrelated to Ted and Same and Mae).

12:15 Got home. Ariel had fallen asleep in the backpack.

2:00 Ariel woke up, had lunch. She ate the apricots that she ignored at breakfast, then had mac & cheese and yogurt. When she's done, she puts each item on the table, off her tray. All done:



Alex and Adam spent most of their day playing legos on this chair:



Poor put-upon Alex. Ariel wacking him, Adam kicking him:



Ariel with attitude:



Images always look more professional if you watermark them:



2:30 I pushed Adam and Ariel in the stroller and we went to the close library to pick up more Magic Tree House books that I had on hold. Then we went to the grocery store and I bought a can of coconut milk that I had forgotten to buy Monday. And then we we went to the photo store to pick up Hannah's 3 month pictures.

3:30 Got home. We started reading Lions at Lunchtime. Ariel was not impressed and played on her own.

4:00 Pick up.