Baby bunnies

Today at daycare, they found a nest of baby rabbits.  When I got there to pick them up, Harper was telling me about them before I could get out of the car.  There are 4 rabbits and no mom to be found (Harper was really concerned about that).  She also thought I should give the rabbits some of Ryden's milk . . . babies of all types drink baby milk :)

When we got home she needed to talk to daddy.  Yelling while she was still in the car 'Daddy I need to talk to you!'  

Anyway, our daycare provider was going to try to get some milk or something to feed them and hopefully keep them alive.  If they stay alive, Harper will have so much fun taking care of them and seeing them grow, but they could die tonight and then we'll have to have a whole different conversation.

A fun day

Remember when I said I just wanted a crappy day to not have to enjoy the nice weather?  Well after a week of rain and not being able to play outside, we were ALL ready for a nice day.


We biked to the park and played for a good chunk of the afternoon.  Ryden took a nap when we got back, we grilled and then the kids played outside for the rest of the night until bathtime.  We're all ready for bed tonight.

Face first on his tummy laughing the whole way.
I love this kid :)

Let's do that again

AHH! A WORM!  Bugs are super scary right now.

I'm a princess cause they're magic.
Ryden can't be a princess because he's a boy.
They have penises and don't wear crowns.
Can't make this stuff up folks.

Model pose.

Harper, pose again . . . :/

He only ate a little dirt today.

McDonalds

McDonald's play place is fun. Ryden climbed up the little slide steps yesterday laughing the whole time.  Still hasn't figured out how to go down the slide, but getting to the top is pretty awesome.

We let Harper go all over, up to the top where ever.  In fact we encourage this.  This morning there was another girl whose grandma wouldn't let her play on the big part which made me wonder if she was overly cautious or I'm just too relaxed ... Probably a little of both.


I can't spend all of my time worrying about bumps, bruises and germs - my kids would never have any fun.

Play time

It is getting so much fun watching Harper play.  Today we went to a new program at the library which was pretty much play time.  She got out the cash register and started ringing up all the things I wanted.  Later, we spent 30 minutes playing outside before it started sprinkling and a few minutes later was a downpour complete with lightning and thunder.  Anyway, while we were outside she was raiding Nate's tools to 'fix' her bike.  Hilarious.  The day was pretty much like this.

She is, however, extremely shy and gets really nervous about playing with other kids.  At the library she wanted to play with the kitchen set but there were other kids there and she was too scared to go play with them.  Reenacting such a moment later, she was going to 'dance class' but told me she couldn't go because there were too many people.  So, we practiced.  She went to these imaginary people and said 'Hi, I'm Harper.'  Ha, we'll see if this pretend experience helps the next time she's in a group of kids.

Separation anxiety

Yay spring break!  Boo separation anxiety.  I thought separation anxiety began sooner than this, but at 11 months, Ryden has begun FREAKING out every time I leave the room.  He's crying at daycare when I leave which he has never done before.  Bedtime has been ridiculous the last couple nights too.  Usually he nurses, and goes to sleep in his crib, whether he falls asleep nursing or not, doesn't matter.  Now, he nurses, falls asleep and when I put him in his crib he wakes up, normal.  After this though, when I walk out of the room and shut the door he gets up and SCREAMS he used to just keep sleeping.  I spent 1 1/2 hours last night getting him to bed.  Hopefully this is a short stage because I'm going to go crazy if I have to spend that much time putting him in bed every night.

A walk

After a super lazy day, I decided I wanted to go on a walk tonight.  So, we ate supper, took baths, I put Ryden to bed and me and Harper went out for a walk.  I wanted it to be a 'for fitness' walk so I was going at a pretty good pace but I was NOT prepared.  I have lost 30 pounds, but I have done nothing to earn it and I am feeling it.


Anyway . . . the walk ended up being 3.2 miles (I came home and checked it out on mapmyrun.com) We had to drop a Redbox off at Hy-Vee when we started and the just continued the walk from there.  Harper was confused about where we were going because we haven't gone on a walk just to go on a walk for a long time.  Since she's been able to play at a park most of our walks are to the park.  So as we're walking she was trying to figure out what was happening.

Where are we going?

On a walk.

But where?

Just around.

To the park?

No, we're not going to the park, just on a walk.

We're not going home though, home is back there.

I don't know that she ever figured out what was going on because she fell asleep around the halfway point.  I think that this may become part of our nightly routine.  Maybe not so long when I've been at school all day and have school the next day, but some sort of walk.


I also ate a bowl of ice cream as a sat here.  I think that might cancel out the walk, but a walk and ice cream is better than no walk and ice cream. Right?

Knees

The weather has been Amazing!  Today is a little cloudy and cool (68° in the middle of March is 'cool') but all week its been around 80°.  At daycare the kids played hard outside all morning and 2 days I arrived to them still napping.  Yesterday, we grilled for supper and the kids played in the back yard.  Ryden is going to need to learn to walk before to long or his knees are going to be destroyed.  He crawled all over the cement patio throwing a ball and then chasing it down (repeat over and over and over).  So after this, his knees were all red and scraped up.  He didn't seem to mind, the joys of being 1 (or almost) I would have given up after the first crawl.



Today is also the first day of my spring break (WOO SPRING BREAK!) so I'm hoping next week is super nice too.  Although its looking like it might be rainy.  The library is open rain or shine though and Harper loves the library.  So let the fun begin.