I think this counts as the first time I’ve “fixed” Sarah’s hair:
She just about has enough to do something with! She wanted it down before very long, though.
As you can see, Anna decided to go all out and fix up her hair and her clothes:
She was getting ready for a party, she said. :)
I sew sometimes. Not very well, and not very often, and definitely not very efficiently. But I had this idea to try to make a swimsuit cover-up for Anna out of a towel, and I thought certainly I wasn’t the first one to have this brilliant idea, so I went Googling… and I found a great tutorial! It’s even cuter than what I had envisioned, and the pieces are all rectangles and the seams are all straight lines, so that’s my kind of sewing!
Next I’m going to make one for Sarah from the other end of the towel. Maybe I’ll even start making them to sell! At the rate I sew, I’d have to charge about $100 each to make a decent hourly wage… you think I’d have any takers? Nah, neither do I. :)
I’ve run a few 5Ks before, but this year I’ve been working towards the Toad Suck 10K. And wouldn’t you know it, they have a “Tadpole Trot” for the little’uns, so we asked Anna if she would like to run in a real race like Mommy, and she unhesitatingly said yes! So I ran my first 10K and Anna ran her first race on the same day!
I finished in about an 11-minute mile pace, which is slower than my usual, but it was hot and VERY humid, so my goal was to keep trotting along at a reasonable pace that would enable me to finish the thing on my feet instead of a stretcher.
Mommy and Anna!
The “Tadpole Trot”:
Getting into the spirit of things with our t-shirts:
This past weekend, we finally got this neglected, overgrown, who-knows-what’s-lurking-in-there corner of the yard cleaned out, edged, and mulched. It looks like a flower bed, but the ground is not prepared to plant anything in it because my intent is to use it as a container garden. If I am to have any hope of growing things successfully, I think my best shot is containers. Containers that are just steps from the back door and right next to the watering hose.
Anyway, Anna said, “I like the new garden!” Aww, thanks honey. “Now we need to plant some flowers in it. You want me to help you do that today?” Well, my eager aspiring gardener had to wait a couple of days, but on Monday, we walked (yes, walked! I love this neighborhood!) down to the hardware store to let her pick out some flower seeds. She chose marigolds. Not my favorite, but I think they aren’t too hard to grow.
Let’s hope something sprouts!
My effort to blog more kept me rolling for a couple of months—I blogged about 10 times in Jan/Feb—and then I blogged once in March. Hmm, what happened? Well, here’s more, finally…
Lately Anna has been wanting to eat her afternoon snack at her little table in the family room. One day I just decided to put Sarah there with her and see what happened. She took to it pretty well! I think she likes having snack with Anna at the big kid table instead of her high chair. After all, she’s just as big as Anna and can do everything she does, right? :) She has trained Anna to break up her crackers for her into little bites (even though she is perfectly capable of biting off of a cracker) and Anna willingly obliges.
Look who turned four today! We had a big, full day. David took off work and we went to The Wonder Place and then Chick-fil-A for lunch, two of her favorite places! That pretty much wore both girls out, so naps were in order as soon as we got home. After nap, we went to The Ride to get a bike helmet for Anna, then we came home and presented her with a new (to her, anyway; it was a hand-down from a friend!) bicycle. David helped her try it out, and before long, she had really gotten the hang of it! When Sarah gets older, we’ll have to get the whole family outfitted and start biking as a family. After a spin on the bike, Nana and Granddad (who had just arrived from Colorado for the birthday weekend) took her out to dinner.
Here are some pics from the day:
I got Anna a “Big Sister” shirt a while back, which she has been wearing proudly. Recently, while shopping at Rhea Lana’s consignment sale, I happened upon the exact same shirt with “Little Sister” on it in Sarah’s size. I couldn’t pass that up now, could I?
And one more, not in “sister” attire, but kind of funny:
It will be hard to top last year’s Snowpocalypse, as it came to be known, but we got an inch or so a couple of days ago—enough for Anna to don the now-too-short snowsuit and get out in it. And the parenting medal goes to David for getting out there with her while I stayed inside and took pictures from the window. :)
I woke up in “snow day mentality,” in which I basically throw off all attempts at productivity and goof off. I even stayed in my pajamas. That lasted until about 10 A.M., when I just had to get dressed and put on some makeup. The girls managed to stay in theirs all day though.
It’s much better from in here, right Sarah? :)
(I know that would be a better picture if the window weren’t so filthy. With 2 kids and 3 dogs, it stays clean for about 5 minutes after I Windex it.)
We’ve got a little work to do, but she’s coming along, don’t you think?
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