Tuesday Come & Gone

I had special visitors today at work!

happy.. little.. me! lunch visitors!

Sydni asked to stay and hang out with Mr. Rob today while I was doing the whole work thing... she helped him run some errands, including stopping by to see me for an hour during lunchtime. I was a little worried at first that she'd stuff him in a closet or drive him mad, but instead, I got home to fixed appliances, a beautiful princess sticker collage and two pups who tied the whole picture together.

So I made them dinner (:

dinner for my fam (:

And the funniest part: I'm not sure who was more excited to watch this, Sydni or Rob and me.. but we made quick with it to throw in Monster's University, the second-but-prequel-to Monster's Incorporated. Parents and non-parents everywhere really need to acknowledge and embrace their inner kid, because this movie's funny no matter which way you spin it.

cute movie.. watch it!

Here's where my day and this entry end.. I have my family here and I am one happy little camper. Not everything is perfect right now but it sure does feel like it sometimes (:

xo | cmd

Goofy Girls :)

Hey, Sunday!

Today started with nursery rotation downstairs. Luckily for me, I ended up on the rotation with Mo, Tanya, and Michelle. It flew right on by, followed immediately by a meeting with the deacons' wives to lay down some additional details on the new member fellowship later in September. I'm working on the welcome book; it is well-underway and just about finished! :) 

[photog | ria periera]

[photo cred | f.daisy1401

Once the meeting was over, I loaded both Sydni and Emma up and the three of us set off to spend the afternoon together so Becky could conquer the task of moving, unhindered. The girls and I had a blast- played in the backyard, the basement, Sydni's room, the living room, and outside in the cul-de-sac. They got the trikes out and I was instantly reminded of photographs of myself as a kid playing on my own red tricycle. I found a couple pictures that would suffice as substitution for the actual shots of me as a mini [note to self: dig through some of the collection at the padres'.]

I borrowed this shot of an itty bitty chuck taylor; Sydni has the same exact ones. I also was reminded that I need to get the camera out and start doing a better job of photo-documentation. Eerie as it is, I've been slacking bigtime on my photographic endeavors as of late. I have a bunch of places I've noted just in the past couple of weeks that I'd like to shoot while there's still plenty of greenery and the pre-autumn lighting.... Hmmmm.. 

Anyway, the girls wore themselves out running around the house, up and down stairs, and all over the driveway. Becky just stopped by to get Emma and Sydni is already about to pass out. It's been one of those weekends - wonderful but all too short. 

Sigh. 

Tomorrow it's back to the fanciness that is the work week. We'll see how this goes. 

xo | cmd

Miss Tessa Bean!

SCORE! I survived my first week at my new office. It’s beyond different, still, but I think I’ll start meshing a little better when I’m not faced with 50 different things in a shortened workweek.

Anywhooooo. Sydni’s been gone [not gone, but on vacation, rather] at Nana & Pappy’s [aka, my parents’] since the beginning of this week when we left after the holiday weekend. It’s been eerily quiet around here, and I caught myself once this week feeling a bit useless not having the same recurring pile of stuff to clean up.

That’s why tonight we readily agreed to watch Tessa [Kyle & Amy’s] for the night while they headed out for a date night. I was pretty excited. Tessa is one of the cutest kids I’ve ever seen, and she’s funny, too.

I came home from work to find Tessa perched on our couch, tennis ball raised above her head, squealing at our dog, who was more than ready to play fetch with her in the living room. She thought it was the funniest thing. She helped me fix dinner, and told me all about how she helps her mommy out at home making dinner, too. She colored some pictures and ate dinner in Sydni’s high chair, because, well, she insisted on sitting there as opposed to a normal chair. Well ok, then.

tessa bean!

We took a trip to the park, where Tessa was very quick to make some new friends. I realized that Sydni does the same exact thing, and I had to stop for a minute and just appreciate the simplicity of children playing together. There’re no social borders, no status lines, and no inherited grudges to take into consideration. It’s just them, a playground, and all the free time they can handle until it’s time to go home. I love it. Tessa loved it, too, but was completely okay to head back to our house, get cleaned up for bed, and even fall asleep before Kyle & Amy came by to get her.

This is our first time babysitting another little one together: we didn’t do half bad! We still have one full week without our little one. I’m already starting to miss her, but I know we’ll find some way to fill the time.

For now, lights out!

xo | cmd