It was another beautiful day today! I feel a million times better this week than I have in the past few weeks. I was in a total funk and I KNOW it was because of the dreariness of the weather. I think I’m an undiagnosed SAD sufferer… but really, who isn’t? Anyway, sunshine today meant more melting, which meant… puddles!
It's been so long since we've seen the sun that she forgot how to wear sunglasses! (just kidding, of course)
Puddle boots.
Walking and talking. We miss Lex when he is at school.
This puddle was super deep!
Alan went for the first run of the season. Eve was pretty worried about him :) We were outside when he got back and when he ran past the house Eve took off after him. Here they are walking back towards the house.
I know you haven't seen a lot of him on the blog lately!
Their boots were FILLED with muddy water :) We emptied them outside and I'm hoping they dry overnight.
After all the excitement outside we came in for showers. Eve cried her way through a shower and almost continually for the next half hour until Alan laid down on the couch with her and they both fell asleep. I woke them for dinner, but Eve sat like this the whole time. We aren’t quite sure if she was sleeping, but she definitely might have been. :) I brought her up to bed after dinner and she was mighty glad to be there.
Is she sleeping? We aren't sure.
She has been waking up a lot at night this past week and coming into our bed. The other night she was wide awake at 4am. I have no idea why. I’m dreading tonight after her early bedtime and she hasn’t really eaten much since lunch. Maybe I’ll bring a snack upstairs so when she is wide awake at 2am I can feed her and put her back to bed :) We’ll see.
I feel bad sometimes about her and naps. With Lex I clung to my “respect the nap” stance until he was almost in kindergarten! Eve would still nap most days if I let her, but even a short nap results in her being wide awake until 10pm. That’s too late for me! When I do a good job of being home for the regular schedule (lunch, stories, quiet time… all on time!) she does well for the afternoon, but lately I have been doing a very poor job of that. Trying to squeeze in errands after playdates, or lunch dates, or “quick” grocery shopping after preschool, or whatever. More times than not these past few weeks she’s had either a late quiet time or none at all. I need to get better at respecting her quiet time. The problem is that she’s just so sweet during the day it’s easy to try and fit in “just one more thing.” Slowing down will be next on the agenda… but not tomorrow.
Tomorrow we are going to two parties! Good Beginnings of the Upper Valley (of which I am a past volunteer, recipient, and current board member) is celebrating it’s 25th anniversary and we are having a big kid party tomorrow morning. It should be fun. Tomorrow afternoon we’ve been invited to a March Madness party. We know next to nothing about basketball, but we will dig out our SU shirts and enjoy the party all the same. It may be our last seeing as we are not sports people and I volunteered to bring cookies but copped out at the last minute. I envisioned nicely decorated cookies that looked like basketballs, and maybe some with the SU logo, just for fun. Instead when it came time to decorate I was tired, the kids were tired, the day grew late and I had to put them to bed, the royal icing got too stiff, my hands hurt trying to do the piping… so I grabbed a knife and just swiped orange icing across the top. Today I bought store bought icing in a tube and “decorated” them to look like basketballs. When our dear host tomorrow sees them he might kick us right out the door!!! :)
World's worst decorated cookies! (they don't even taste fantastic either!)
I’ll bring a box of Thin Mints as well, maybe that will redeem me!
