a few days worth

this was just taken about 15 minutes ago. yes, it's wet & a bit chilly outside, but christine rocks to the point of taking my girls outside to play so i can chill out for a few moments (mornings are very rough on my muscles & the headache, oh the headache). so what do i do with this time? drink coffee & upload pictures & decide to post a bit.

i don't think i could have gotten through the past 2 days without christine here helping me. amazing friend? CHECK. (plus other friends helping out as well; i mean, holli rocked & rocked crying amelia last night until i got home...)

so this is amelia getting stuck in the lego basket. she enjoyed her time in there until she tried to get out. she finally figured it out, how to dismount & then immediately went back into the basket. crazy kid. then she dumped the basket & started to throw legos around. good times.

& this is the man we all miss right now.
i mean, he's doing dishes, how can we *not* miss him?!

adeline dressing like a swiss mountain girl from the early 20th century. at least that's what wes & i thought she looked like (this was from saturday)

ooohh, classic. someday when i have more time i'm going to make a picture book filled with pictures like these, the ones to show her when she's in her teens, the ones that scream 'i had such an oppressing childhood!'. i'm sure amelia will have a book filled as well, no doubt (it may even be thicker than adeline's...)

amelia walking a bit. in her ohio university sweatshirt, the only thing wes will put her in from now until next summer. i'll say 'can you get amelia dressed' & he may come downstairs with amelia in pants, a white onesie & then this *jacket* sweatshirt. (at least that's what happened often with adeline)

the sweet baby looking up to the heavens, lamenting about her human status as one who can't get her point across yet. she looks reasonably happy still.


yesterday i dropped christine & the girls off at the rec center to play while i did some grocery shopping. alone! so i went to marcs--i would *never* go to marcs with a kid, it never ends well-- but i was driving down state street at just past 11 a.m. & was stopped in traffic right in front of addy's school. i look over & the preschoolers are getting out of class, being connected with their parent or whomever; going home. it was adorable, seeing all of addy's future class mates being walked out single file to their parents, complete with backpacks nearly as large as they are. from 100 feet away i could tell that they were happy & giddy & that made my mama heart warm & gushy. then, it just *hit me* that in 1 week, we will be picking adeline up from her first day of school! i guess since it's with the school district & is 4 days a week i sorta feel like she's going to real school, not just preschool. anyway, the thought was very delightful & stunning that my sweet baby adeline will be one of those kids just next week. & then for the next 14 years she will be going to school. then she's gone, off to college (i guess if she so chooses). it's all going so fast... but so is life & that's okay.

plus she has a birthday this friday that she is *SO EXCITED* about. i asked her what kind of cake she wants, chocolate or vanilla/white. she said chocolate (my kind of girl!). so chocolate it will be. i can tell she loves chocolate also b/c yesterday morning she woke up before christine or i, went downstairs & ate all the m&m's in the bowl (she gets 2 when she pees in the potty, FIVE if she poops...not motivation enough, apparently). there were a good deal of m&m's left in the bowl from the night before so she was in a rather happy mood after munching them all down very quickly i'm sure. a load of chocolate in the morning will do that to ya. no worries, she also got the big hospital cup out, filled it with water & stuck in her fav swirly straw, drinking probably nearly a pint of water... & then ate 3 *frozen* blueberry waffles. miss independent.
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& it is official: amelia is ornery. almost everyone comments on it recently. i can vouch for it. & now christine can vouch for it. yesterday she was on top of the dining room table. last week i found her on top of the kitchen counter. there are many more stories along the same line, but in plain words: wes & i are in for it. i knew it.
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now i must start helping christine with the little ladies now that bio freeze in kicking in on the muscle situation...