A Capricious Perspective

Monday, March 23, 2009

This Is The Lunch...

That made AJ exclaim with awe, "WOW, thank you!"

The menu was:

1 clementine orange

3 Triscuit crackers

a Smucker's Strawberry PB&J Uncrustable

Apple Juice

Really ?!...I didn't even put it on a plate...

I hope he is always this easy to impress.

Inspired by A Little Bit Funky, I pulled a few snapshots from our Photobooth library over the last couple years. I love how these silly fleeting moments that we captured by a click of a mouse have documented us grow!

Look at baby AJ!

The above picture is what happens when we tell AJ it is time turn off the computer and go to bed. Ha! Just had to take a picture!

Something about Photobooth makes Andy stick out his tongue...

The tongue thing must be hereditary...

Momma, baby Abby, & AJ

baby Abby...a week before she met us...

We have hundreds (not exaggerating) of pics of daddy and AJ's tongues...

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Potty Power!

Not only does bear go everywhere with us, he must be buckled in....

AJ went all day without any potty accidents, including a trip to the store, a trip to the park, and a nap...so we rewarded him with Dairy Queen.

About half way through our ice cream treat, AJ stood up on the bench and yelled to the entire packed restaurant, "I have POTTY POWER, POTTY POWER, POTTY POWER!!!"

At least he made the connection...

Abby slept through the whole thing.

Sunday Outside

Today as AJ was swinging with his bear he said, "Momma, I love bear!" Notice he has loved one of the ears right off...and the tail, but you can't see that.

Nothing like swinging barefoot in the sun!

Off we go to play at the park...

AJ gloating about his free ride as I haul baby Abby in the Snugli...

We went down the slide approximately one hundred times...occasionally on top of another kid that just wasn't moving fast enough...

There's that tongue again...it seems to appear when AJ concentrates really hard or is having fun...

Baby Abby's sunhat

Friday, March 20, 2009

Zoo Lessons

Today we took advantage of our new zoo membership from AJ's great grandma Jody, the gorgeous spring like weather, and one of my last few dwindling maternity days off and went to the zoo with a friend and her three kids. That's right...three toddlers and two babies! What an experience!

I learned a few things about going to the zoo with children under the age of four:

Dress your child in hunter safety orange because half of the other children under the age of four in the city are also at the zoo running from their parents. Your little escapee needs to be easy to spot amongst the before school aged crowd.
Leave the wagon at home and bring a backpack, thus making it easier to maneuver through crowds chasing your child...minimizing things you need to keep track of...and protecting innocent bystanders just trying to look at the zebras from being side swiped by the gigantic plastic tank as the children push it down hill at ramming speed...
Avoid the hut that sells cotton candy at all costs...even if it means the detour requires an extra half mile walk...my child will outlast me as he loiters by the counter waiting for me to give in and just buy the $2.75 bag.
Cash to ride the train is necessary to avoid a melt down that might rival Chernobyl...
If you think taking your child to the zoo will wear them out...it will, but you will be just as exhausted from the trip if not more...
And lastly...a membership to repeat today's adventure as often as possible over the next year is worth every penny!