Weekend

Friday 8-3-07 I worked until 1pm today while T went home and mowed the lawn before it started sprinkling. We had lunch at Panera before picking up the girls and taking them to the Zoo. M rode in the stroller and L rode in the Snugli while we looked at all the animals. We got a close up view of a giraffe's head peaking over the fence right next to the sidewalk. Dad took M on the carousel, which she loves. Then she tried testing her boundaries by running ahead of us - as there was no one around that area we let her go but it wasn't long before she turned around to see if we were still behind her. Both bears were awake today so we watched them for a while. Then we headed home to get L and I packed to go with G Val to Lake Andes. We decided that if I was going to be any help we needed to leave M at home. Plus we thought it might be nice if she got some one on one attention. When G Val came and picked us up M wasn't so sure we should leave but gave us hugs and kisses and took off with Dad to play. L did pretty Well in the car for about an hour and a half. Then she was getting crabby - of course I had packed all the toys in the trunk so she played with an empty water bottle and a pop koosie until we finally pulled over to get the toys. She was very happy to get out of the carseat. G Toots held her while Mom and I started going through stuff getting ready for the sale. About 10 pm I took her into the bedroom and fed her in the dark and she fell right asleep.

Saturday 8-4-07 Today was a long day. L woke up by 7:30am and after breakfast we got right to work. I put L in the Snugli and just kept asking questions of what Toots wanted kept (meaning put in a pile to haul to Vermillion),what to give to other people, what went on the sale and what went in the garbage. Steve went out and mowed the grass for hours. L's job was to help get Toots to sit and hold her while she told me what to do. It was overcast in the morning but once the sun came out it was HOT so us girls moved down the basement in the air conditioning. We laid L on the bed and let her roll over, get mad, flip, repeat. I know she got from her stomach to her back one time on her own but none of us saw it. T, M & Wrigley took advantage of us being gone and went on a bike ride and had a picnic. After lunch Uncle Steve laid down on the floor by L for a quick nap, but as she wasn't sleeping I don't think she wanted him to either. She was cooing and even grabbed onto his hair. He nicknamed her Slimer as she was drooling ALL over today. I finally put L down for a nap around 3pm and went down to the shed to help when I heard my cell phone ring through the baby monitor which woke L up after only 20 minutes. The kicker was that it was T calling to say M was taking a nap :-) So back in the Snugli she went. We were out their a couple hours before it was a mutual decision to get out of the heat as it had sucked all the drive out of us. So we had a snack break and they sorted though more boxes inside while we took turns showering. We went to the "Hill" for supper (the casino). L took another 15 min nap during some of supper. Then we were driving around lake when L decided she HATED her car seat and I couldn't do anything to calm her down. So we had a miserablely long ride back to the house as she kept crying. Even after being awake ALL day she didn't want to go to sleep. Finally at 10:30 I held her legs so she couldn't roll over and wake herself back up and she went to sleep.

Sunday 8-5-07 L woke me up early this morning (before everyone else was even up). But we all got moving and Mom got right to work sorting through more boxes while Steve drank his coffee. He got on the rode (on his motorcycle) mid morning. Then Mom, Toots, L and I packed up the cars and got on the road by lunch time when it was getting really hot out. we ate in Wagner and had a nice visit. L took a little catnap and then sat in my lap, Mom's and then Toots'. By then it was time to feed her and get on the road. Tom and M came down to G & G Z's after M's nap. Mark & Shana came also and we had pizza for supper.

We SAW L roll from stomach to back for the first time this morning at the lake. She was lying on the blanket on the floor by G Val and she had barely rolled to her stomach before she rolled back. She did it again for Dad at G & G Z's on their floor and while I was putting M to bed Dad got it on video at home. So hopefully this ends the cycle of her rolling from her back to her stomach and screaming until someone flips her to her back.