Day 8

8 classes done!!!

It was a very busy weekend! We had a great evening at Mike and Julie's on Friday. AK and Matthew played and played and played until they were falling over from exhaustion. I was able to put AK down to sleep, no problem. Matthew was a different story :) but he eventually fell asleep as well. I got a treat the next morning too - AK slept til 7am!

We headed over to Hunter's house on Saturday morning as Jess and Ben agreed to take AK to gymnastics for me so that I could go to yoga. Sounds like they had a great time... AK stood at the window and waved "bye" so hard I thought her arm was going to fall off! She is always so happy to spend time with the Babbs. She had a good afternoon nap, then we headed off to the Mosers. Christie and I went to a gala dinner for work and Chris looked after AK. Sounds like she was really good for Chris too. He only had to bribe her with grapes to stop her from crying. Ha! She ate a really good supper there too, chicken in tomato sauce and pasta.

AK slept til 730am on Sunday morning, which was great as I was a bit tired from the gala dinner. Christie made waffles for breakfast, which we had with syrup and strawberries. AK ate about a quarter of a waffle. We headed home to quickly get ready for church and it went really well this week. AK didn't cry at all when we went into the childcare room and she was happy once again to see Hunter. After church, we headed over to the Huys and I put AK down for her nap there as Kevin and Mike looked after AK while I co-hosted a baby shower for Jenni (are you sensing a trend of babysitters this past weekend???). Sounds like the kids had a pretty good nap then they watched Cars and ate some pretzels! The baby shower went really well... Jenni is so blessed with her friends and this baby girl is going to be one well-dressed babe! It is such a good group of girlfriends we have :)

After the shower, Jenni and I fed the kids some of the leftover food from the shower and they played together for a while. It was a lot of fun - lots of jumping on the bed, giggles, laughter, smiles... and of course a bit of fighting and time-outs and owies! All in good fun :)

Oh, I forgot the biggest news from yesterday... I could smell something funky so I asked AK if she'd farted... she said "yes" but I didn't believe her so checked her diaper and found that she'd just started to poo... so I whisked her off to the toilet and she had a huge poo on the potty! We nearly got another one in the potty today but I was too slow to pick up on her cues (note to anyone who looks after AK in the next while - if she's grabbing her crotch and saying "pee", she is probably about to poo!!!) and we didn't quite make it to the toilet in time. It is great that she is giving me cues though, and we talked about what to do next time. She is to 1. say "mommy POO!", 2. "run run run" to the bathroom and 3. poo on the potty! How fun!

AK dressed herself for daycare today... haha... a colorful shirt with a rainbow and other pictures on it, mostly pink, and blue/white striped shorts. She wore pink sandals that kind of matched her shirt so that wasn't too bad. It is going to be interesting to see what outfits she comes up with on her own. She's definitely getting more headstrong about what she wants to wear.

Question for my readers - I hadn't done anything with the local pumpkin I bought a couple of weeks ago so I roasted it tonight, mashed it and now it's in the freezer. What shall I do with it? I don't really care for baked goods but I suppose I could make pumpkin bread or muffins for someone else. I've never made a pumpkin soup but that could be fun - if anyone has a true or tried recipe, let me know. Just leave a comment or email me! The other stuff I got from the farmer's market was great - the mango and starfruit were so good, I ate more than AK did, and the buns were fantastic. I think that's all I got... can't remember! xo