Watch us grow!
On our way home, we stopped at Auntie and Uncle’s house to drop off their air mattress. Janie got to hang out with her favorite auntie while Daddy dried out the sleeping bags outside.
Once we got home, everyone got a bath (including GG) and Janie had a tasty dinner.
She must have been exhausted because there was no fighting bedtime tonight.
While Mama and Dada watched the “Fight of the Century”, Janie fell asleep. I guess she agrees with everyone else that it was a boring fight.
This afternoon, Daddy tried to take a nap and Janie kept interrupting him.
She later left him alone long enough for him to fall asleep and then made what she called a “black bed” next to him. She laughed when Mommy caught her.
She also clapped for herself and then pretended to sleep for a bit. Silly girl.
After we drove home from the aquarium, we had just enough time to take a potty break and regroup.
We had a lunch date with Daddy in between his meetings and Janie was excited to see him.
On our way home, Janie had dropped GG on the sidewalk. She hadn’t noticed until we were 15 minutes after we had already gotten home. When she noticed, we went back outside to retrace our steps and luckily found him around the corner on the sidewalk. Phew! That was close. He went straight into the washing machine when we got back to the house.
She also said, “I don’t want to take a nap” and then passed out minutes later (with GG’s doppleganger in hand). She had quite a day so far.
This is what Janie looked like this morning before she woke up.
Mommy had a class today so Janie stayed home with Daddy. The morning started out well since she was watching Nemo while Daddy was working from home.
When it was time to leave the house, she had taken her skirt off and refused to put it back on. Here she is on the floor protesting.
She was put on “time out” and ended up falling asleep for her nap.
When she woke up, she still didn’t want to put her skirt or pants on so she just laid in bed until she decided it was s good idea. Luckily for Mommy, she came around soon enough to get out of the house to meet Mommy outside of her class. Mommy and Daddy were happy because she really needed to run around and use of some energy.
On the way home, we stopped at The Yard since Daddy had skipped lunch (because of all the protesting). She also hadn’t eaten much for lunch either so she had some of Daddy’s pork, rice, and veggies.
Not sure what was wrong with her today but she was super loopy for the rest of the day. Hopefully tomorrow will be better because Mommy has one more day of class.
We went to the zoo again this weekend and Janie just loves the flamingos. She even tried to be one.
The penguins were pretty funny today too. One of them was swimming really fast and then doing jumps out of the water.
The hippo statue is always a hit and today she said she was “driving”.
Our almost-3-year-old was looking pretty sassy today with her hands on her hips.
There were lots of flowers to pick this morning.
At 11:30, we snagged a good spot at the grizzly bear pond.
They threw live trout into the pond and the bears caught them right in front of us.
Janie got a little scared when one of them got up on her hind legs and walked really close to the glass.
Janie took a peacock picture today and I found her first one from 10/6/13. These pictures are 18 months apart. What a difference!
For lunch, we had some pho and Janie gobbled it all up.
Such enthusiasm in this little one!!
Our last stop before heading home was 99 Ranch Market. She really liked seeing all the live seafood.
On our way home, she passed out and slept for a good two hours when we got home. It was a very exciting morning.
One of Janie’s favorite things to do before bed is to read her books. Actually, it’s more like flipping through the pages and reciting the stories (sometimes word-for-word) to herself. She also makes comments about the pictures and the characters she recognizes.
What’s even better is when Daddy joins her in bed and reads her all her favorite stories. This one in particular is a current fave for both of them.
At 3am this morning, Janie woke up coughing and was on the verge of throwing up each time. I went to check on her and she was in tears and said, “I want to go over there.” So, she slept on the sofa with a blanket rolled up as her pillow and had a blanket that could easily go in the wash. The sofa is also a faux leather so it would be easy to clean if she did throw up. She fell asleep almost instantly and I slept in the rocking chair next to her making sure I could be there in case she had another coughing spell. Fortunately, she slept relatively well and I got a little shut-eye in spurts throughout the early morning.
She looked miserable when I got up for work so she got to stay home with Daddy today. For breakfast, she had a hard-boiled egg, soup, and fruit.
I got periodic updates from home and here are some of my favorite text messages from him:
Trying to work with the artist in residence composing songs about Mommy going to work in the background is not super effective.
“Time for drums” while Daddy tries to draft emails is also not super effective.
After the late-morning call, the two of them went out for lunch. They had Japanese food and Janie discovered a more efficient way to eat noodles. Daddy sent me the steps:
Step 1: Hold out soup spoon.
Step 2: “Daddy you want to do it.”
Step 3: Profit.
She basically gets a bunch of noodles on her spoon at once instead of one at a time.
Daddy didn’t mind because she can finally shuck her own edamame out of the shells without help.
At the end of the meal, the manager came out and gave Janie a whole box of Pocky because he was impressed with how well she sat through lunch and also thought she was cute. Boy oh boy…she is already benefiting from her cuteness. Luckily, she was ok with just one stick before her nap.
She took a nice long afternoon nap and was still sleeping when I got home from work. In fact, I had to open the blinds and bedroom door to wake her. She also remembered right away that Daddy had promised her 2 more Pocky sticks after her nap.
Before dinner, Janie rode her tryke to Safeway to burn off the chocolate.
She also had some milk while she read the snake pamphlet that she got from the pet store last week. Looks like quite a successful sick day for both Janie and Daddy. She should be well enough for school tomorrow.
We walked down to the Farmer’s Market this morning and Janie ran about a third of the way there. She also found a “car” to drive.
For breakfast, we went to il Cane Rosso and Janie played with her tongs and puff balls until the food arrived. She was calling them “ice cubes”.
She had scrambled eggs and almost finished the side order portion that we got for her. She also did a good job keeping her underwear dry all morning and kept Mommy’s hat on in the sun.
Back at home, Mommy fell asleep on the sofa and Janie took a nap in bed with Dada.