Another work day...with some fun mixed in : )

So...I didn't get NEARLY as much posted the other night as I wanted to. After restarting my computer 3 times and it STILL freezing up while trying to add pictures, I decided that maybe I was supposed to be doing something else with my time. But I'm back again....and everything is working this time : )

I left off with Tuesday, June 24th. The morning started off with some crazy wonderful little girl bed-head that I HAD to take pictures of! Here she is eating her breakfast:


I also captured one of my favorite faces of hers....the intense scrunched nose she gets right when she ATTACKS her sippy cup when she is really thirsty:


The morning was uneventful.....I am sure we read books and checked email and just hung out as a family. I can't really remember what else we did. We DID decide to use a gift card and go out to lunch at Olive Garden to get soup and salad. We fed Kenzie ahead of time since we weren't sure how filled up she'd get with what we were going to be eating. She had a turkey/cheese roll-up......


So then...once we were at Olive Garden we realized the mistake we had made. Next time we will still not try to fill her up on OUR food at a restaurant....but we WILL bring her lunch WITH US instead of feeding her beforehand. We didn't realize the unpleasant task it would be trying to occupy a 14 month old in a high chair who is full and doesn't want ANY snacks. We took turns eating and playing with her, trying to keep her at least MOSTLY under control. One of the things that kept her busy for the longest was looking through our book of gift cards......


We got home from lunch and it was time for Chip to go to work. Kenzie and I went inside and played before her nap (and mine!) Lately, she'll take off ONE shoe and then she must just decide it is taking too long to get the other one off or something, because she'll run around with one shoe on. She's my little "diddle diddle dumpling". You can see her "one shoe off and one shoe on" in some of the next pictures where she is playing.


In this picture, Kenzie is holding one of her MOST FAVORITE toys...an empty vitamin bottle. It is so funny how the things kids love the most are ones you don't even buy for them. She ALWAYS wanted to play with her vitamin drops/medicine/etc. We obviously didn't let her do that. But when her vitamin drops ran out, Chip had the wonderful idea to wash out the bottle and let her have it. It has been one of her favorite things for MONTHS now. It even kept her busy for an entire wedding ceremony. (We should have remembered to bring it to Olive Garden with us!)






So....that night I had to get some more work done. Kenzie was in a very "needy" mood. She probably wasn't really that needy, probably more normal than anything else....but she is usually so independent that it was getting really frustrating trying to make her happy and get things done. So, she got to have some extra fun. We weren't allowed to play with water in our rooms growing up. So this idea is a big AGAINST THE RULES type of thing in my mind. But....I knew if Kenzie got water in her kitchen sink, she'd be MUCH more likely to stay in her room and play without me for awhile.

So........



Well.....she DID stay in her room for awhile, but also still wanted to be out by me in the kitchen. So I set up some towels and she had fun running back and forth, carrying water in bowls, dumping it here and there.....





She was pretty happy with the set-up. (I LOVE her eyes!)


She was pretty hard at work too........



After about an hour, some friends came over who had their parents in town who wanted to see Kenzie and they played in her room with her. I was able to get A LOT done while they were over. And by the time they left, it was bedtime, and I was able to finish up everything I needed to get done. Chip came home and there were still wet towels all over the floor, but luckily, he is very understanding and didn't mind a bit. So that was our Tuesday!