After Dinner Treats

Tonight, after we finished dinner and finished cleaning up the toys in the living room, the girls and I took a short stroll. Carl's Jr. I know! Fancy, right?? :-).

Heck, at least there is somewhere to go! I miss where we lived in LA where I could walk to 2 grocery stores, Subway, 2 Starbucks(es), 7-11, the dentist, the hair salon, the nail salon, the cleaners, 5 parks, 2 yummy original sandwich shops, a card shop, a gift shop, a bank, ... I could easily go on. Suffice it to say, it was really nice to have a specific place to GO when went for walks, not just a stroll around the block.

So. Here. Notsomuch. The bank. A good Mexican restaurant, a Pizza Hut, and Carl's Jr. It's been a bit of a shock to my system. :-) but it's nice, once in a while, to walk to Carl's Jr and get a treat.

I think the girls enjoyed both the journey and the destination. And I enjoyed the exercise. :-)

Dear Rocket Man ~ Month One

31 days sure can go by fast when you're new to the world. It's hard to believe that you're already one month old!

I am really enjoying watching you grow and develop. You work hard to move your head, and definitely turn to look whenever you hear my voice or Papa's voice.

We aren't sure, yet, what color your eyes are going to be, but right now, they're a dark gray/blue. We are doing better with nursing, and you seem to be growing well, although I don't know your exact weight. It's clear you are one of us, though, with your long, skinny build. I just don't make chubby babies. :o)

We were very blessed to have your Grandma Claudia here to help after you were born. She really enjoyed playing with your sisters while I was feeding you or getting you to sleep. And she enjoyed holding you, of course!! She held you every chance she could. :o)

We were also incredibly blessed to have two baby showers, and everyone was just SO generous! They gave you lots of clothes and toys and books...and lots of diapers, too. :o)

People ask if I think there is a difference between boys and girls since I had two girls before you, but I don't, yet. You're too teeny, and really just eat and sleep -- much like your sisters did. I'm definitely spread thinner, though. I don't feel like I get to spend quality time with any of you, or with Papa. And I certainly don't feel like I have much of a grasp on the household duties or my sewing. I know that will all change soon enough, so I'm simply trying to enjoy the time I have with you this little and count my blessings.

That's all I can think of to say right now. I love you, Rocket Man!

Gorgeous and Gorgeous ~ with words this time. :)

The weather was GORGEOUS on Thursday. Ridiculously gorgeous.

So after I picked Mookie up from preschool, we went to Subway and grabbed some sandwiches and went to the park for a picnic and some fun play time.

Sprout LOVES to swing. Holy cow, that girl loves to swing. And, sadly, she wants her big sister to swing, too, but Mookie won't. Mookie is, for some VERY strange reason, scared to swing. But every time I put Sprout on the swings, she points to the other one and says "Nini wing! Peas? Nini wing?"...which is her way of asking her sister, begging her sister to swing. And her sister continues to break her heart and mine.

Anyway, once she gets to swinging, Sprout giggles and laughs and smiles and throws her head back and her hands out and just. has. fun. She's just as happy swinging by herself as she is sitting on my lap swinging (which Mookie will do, she just WON'T swing by herself. Even in the baby swing. I wish I knew why.)

She loves to play at the park, but she always wants to swing. One thing I miss about where we lived in California was that we had a park on our street, about 7 houses up, so we could go every day if we wanted to! And, believe me, Mookie wanted to!! Sprout was too small to enjoy that park much, but Mookie sure did! It didn't have swings, but whenever we went to a park with swings, she was happy to swing...so I'm not quite sure what happened. :-/  She also loved to go down the slide. Big or small - loved it! Now? It takes a small miracle to get her to go down the smallest slide.  It's the darnedest thing. I know I need to get them out to the park more often, but it's just not the same. And it's sure-as-heck not as easy as it was! And the weather? A lot less cooperative. :)

It's cold and snowing now, but at least we had Thursday!