Tuesdays are always my days of possibility. If I plan the day right, I have half a day where I don’t have to work. Lately, Sara and I have been having lazy mornings with a couple of chores before I head to work. Sometimes I’ll have to go to a doctor’s appointment or something.
I’ve been meaning to write more about Sara. A lot has changed since my “State of Sara address” in Jan. Sara continues to grow and change. I’m often surprised how she can seem so big and still so small at the same time. Sara is still sporting her trademark curls and sparkly blue eyes. Just now, she’s pulling one of her Shirley Temple curls. Mostly her hair is light brown with blond highlights (is that auburn?). She is slowly getting the concept that there’s a sister coming. She loves to play ‘stole Mommy’s nose’. She’s expanded the game to include “got Mommy’s baby”!
Right now she’s watching her favorite TV show “Caillou”. She often watches TV while Wayne and I take showers. She used to watch Zoboomafoo and Elmo. Now it’s Caillou and Dragontales. When Justin and Skylar were here, they would often gather on our bed to watch TV with Sara in the morning. It was kind of sweet.
Sara has a toy posse. She found an old purse she got from the consignment store and populates it with 2 plastic dogs, 2 dinosaurs (‘dinos’), 4 trains, red race car, and a small yellow truck. She’s toted this ensemble with her to Baker Mountain, friend’s houses, and the bath (minus trains). With summer, we’ve started playing on the deck more often. She will gather multitudes of plastic tupperware, gets her own water from the sink (only a few spills), and plays with posse. Sara started pedaling her red tricycle yesterday. She insisted on ‘wearing her helmet’. Trains are a hit since we’ve been temporarily gifted with a massive Brio set from our friends. We had good friends over who brought Maya (4-3/4 yo) and Anja (10yo) and the trains entertained them. They built a huge track that covered the entire living room floor (see flickr for photos)
Sara has moved from a few words to chatterbox status. I’ve moved to interpreter status. Most of the time, she’s clear to others. She’ll say “Mommy, doing?” She hasn’t added questioning words yet. I calculated that she said ‘Poppa’ 18 times in 30 seconds. Poppa is quite popular right now. She calls our neighbor Erica, ‘Eric’.
Summer fun
Summer is bumping along. I was kind of stressed at the beginning of May thinking about everything we were going to do. We had something planned for every weekend in May, June, July, and half of August. Initially, I found that a little overwhelming. The summer has been planned around the idea of taking little to no vacation time. We had our first camping trip at Gold Basin campground in the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest with our church. After 2 years without camping, it was nice to stage our equipment and prove we can still do it just fine.