Week 9 - part 2

Wednesday 8-8-07 (pm) It was so cute - when I got to daycare today M and Howie were sitting in the driveway with a lemonade stand. I brought them a quarter and bought a glass of red koolaid that they both had bright red mustaches from. I got L from downstairs and I brought my drink home to show/share with Daddy. M waited until Dad got home and then proceeded to drink our glass of koolaid while telling us all about selling to Howie's neighbors and getting "moneys". After the girls went to bed I finally made the strawberry rhubarb pie that I have been wanting to do since Sunday. It wasn't going to be done in the oven until after 11pm so I went to bed and had T take it out before he went to bed. It smelled wonderful when L woke us up at 4am. I don't know what woke her but after T couldn't get her back to sleep I ended up just feeding her just enough to get her calmed down and back asleep.

Thursday 8-9-07 Tonight I tried guilting Jen into coming down this weekend and it didn't work. So when I'm crabby I clean. I starting going through this whole stack of papers - mail, receipts, etc and started organizing. Thankfully my husband calmed me down by serving me rhubarb pie and ice cream. Now that tastes like summer!

Friday 8-10-07 What a great start to the weekend. T & I both got off work at noon today (or shortly thereafter) and went home and changed and packed the diaper bag before picking up the girls. Then we went to the Sioux Empire Fair. We really didn't know what to expect from the girls so just had a whatever happens, happens attitude. We started out on the north side of the fair for a change and looked at the model train display first. It was very nice to take our time and not have to rush through it with 50 people waiting behind you. Then as it was starting to rain we went through the kids safety tent to keep dry and then as it was still raining we went through the 4-H exhibits building. In the last couple years, I never really got a chance to look in here but T pushed M around in the stroller and I had L sleeping in then Snugli. I had an umbrella and M was protected in the stroller with her raincoat wrapped around her legs on the way to the petting zoo. M had fun in there and even got her hand painted (instead of on her face). By then it had pretty much stopped raining, so we got some lunch - I had a corn dog (hadn't had one in 3 yrs) and T the same chicken strips and fries he has had the last 3 yrs. Next we thought we would try looking through the Expo building and if M got bored we would leave, but she did really good. I don't know if it was she could see things with LOTS fewer people as it was the middle of the afternoon vs. evening when we normally go or what, but we were amazed. L was awake and squaking, not crying just making really loud noises so I tried giving her the pacifier but every time someone would talk to her she would smile so big the pacifier would fall out plus her legs would kick and her arms would wave. She loves attention. Then the most amazing thing happened, M fell asleep in the stroller and L in the Snugli and T & I looked through the Open Class exhibit building and then enjoyed ice cream together. L was awake for the ice cream but just sat in Dad's arms and enjoyed sole attention from him. M slept over an hour before we thought we better wake her up and see if she wanted to go on any rides. She went by herself on 3 little rides and had a big grin on her face. We completed our fair trip with a messy funnel cake, good thing we waited until the end as we were all covered in powdered sugar. Just a perfect afternoon considering we were there for 5 hours. As we were leaving the fair we had a wonderful surprise, Jen called and said she had lied to me and had changed her mind and was going to come down to visit this weekend. So we got both girls to bed and the house picked up before she arrived around 11pm. We hadn't seen each other since May so there was a lot of catching up to do until crazy hours in the morning.