last week...

daddy was gone most of the week :( and the rest of it is kind of a blur.  but it was the usual chaos and adventures including...

more time at the gym.

check up with the foot doc.  unfortunately I had all three kids in tow.  unsurprisingly, the baby was the most well behaved.  the other two insisted on taking off their own shoes and having our very patient doc examine their little scrapes and bruises too.  (for my own medical update, I'm pretty much as good as it's gonna get.  the nerve damage was unfortunate but mostly recovered.  I still feel some weakness but I'm miles better than where I've been.  and I can wear cute shoes now.)

lots of playtime at home.  I love love love the warm weather and we've been playing outside a lot lately.  our back patio usually looks like a curious crime scene with all the chalk outlines of sprawling bodies interspersed with flowers and rainbows.

AngelBaby's new favorite sound is a combination kiss and raspberry.  (make me melt cute!)

Ladybug's favorite movie lately has been Mulan.  and since I bought and installed a child lock for the entertainment center that I can't open, we've watched it A LOT.  (I finally unscrewed the door handles in order to remove the child lock.)  Now I catch Ladybug wandering around with that forlorn angst singing "reflections".  oh, and fighting bad guys.

we found another tv show that the girls love called "bo on the go".  it's not as learning oriented but it's very activity oriented.  the girls will run, jump, stretch, etc. with the character and I'm finding it to be a great way to help burn off their crazy abundant energy. 

spent time working in the yard (I'm trying to convince myself that I like gardening.  It hasn't worked yet but my yard is slowly looking better, less wild and overgrown.)

spent a few nights at my parents' house to hang out with my kid sister before she moves to Florida to work for the giant mouse again.  But since this time the move has no return ticket, we threw her a surprise going away party/shower.  The girls helped pick out some things for her new kitchen and we had a backyard bbq with her favorite foods (hot dogs, chicken nuggets and sushi). It was fun to meet her friends, especially her new roommate, and the girls loved playing with their cousins.

We got to spend most of Sunday with daddy (hurray!).  Between finishing his dissertation and work commitments (including spring conference season), the girls have been missing him a lot lately.  So we invited grandma and grandpa on a picnic and drove up into the mountains.  Daddy grilled Italian sausages, we watched the eclipse, briefly waded in the water and mostly just relaxed in the shade of the beautiful forest while the girls ran around playing with sticks and jumping on tree stumps.  AngelBaby giggled and grinned and cuddled.  Our picnic turned out pretty fantastic, especially dessert (brownies+marshmallows+chocolate chips+graham crackers+bananas, wrapped in foil and grilled, sort of a s'mores/banana foster).

and now onto another busy week...