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picture time!
amelia the moving-millie-monster!she loved to crawl over the grass & concrete & get everyone to smile at her. oh yea, she also loves to pull out her grandma sue's beautiful flowers. (we are 100% sure her grandma still loves her, though.)
amelia, nearly 10 months.
addy, 11 months. crawling under the same chair/table as amelia's above picture.
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cleveland zoo!
taking a break to eat some serious ben & jerry's ice cream! yum-yum-yumminy!
grandma sue & adeline (millie is konked out in the stroller to the left, look closely...so cute)
look how huge addy's cone is! this was the kid's size! she's trying her hardest to get it all...
addy's *GOTTA SEE* the gorillas & monkeys! geesh.
it was nap time for most of the animals.
our happy baby millie.
checking out the sea lions with mama.
for this picture wes & sue kept asking addy to smile & she wouldn't (oh, tad bit grumpy-bear-addy?). so i smiled for her.THEN, sue went to buy some of the feed for the sea lions, totally unbeknownst to her it was DEAD FISH! so over she walks to us holding 3 little dead fish in her hand. how gross! *gag* what a grandma you have, girls. i would've taken one look at them & told them to keep the money i just gave them, there's no way i'm touching those fisheeees.
grandma & the amelia-beauty. (look at her legs! how cute?!)
mama & adeline checking out the giraffs. addy *loved* them.
what other zoo highlights?well, somehow we managed to end up at the nastiest food joint there was at the zoo & i think all the adults felt sick after eating that food. which is just sorta funny to remember. we all had this *ICK* look on our faces & the girls had this *YUM* look.
the cleveland zoo is much bigger than the columbus zoo. thankfully, wes & sue felt my tumor was serious enough that i didn't have to push the pack-muled strollers up the steep hills. lol.
addy loves the big birds, like geese, ducks, etc. this is how it goes: point & squeal. she also loves the big cats (tigers, lions, etc) & can make their noises (which for us is an accomplishment). i think at her speech playgroup on thursday, where the theme of the day is "zoo", adeline will have many stories to share.
amelia mostly just hung out in her stroller, happy to watch the world going by. we got her out to crawl around a few times & she was thrilled to discover that *gasp* the cleveland zoo has grass, also!
the sad part is that we had originally planned to make zoo day friday, but the stormy/torrential rain diswayed us. so we had to go on saturday instead...what is unfortunate about this: wes' dad could only come with us on friday, so he missed out on the zoo trip! throughout the day, addy kept say "papaw?" & putting her arms up in question, ya know, 'where is he? where's papaw?' maybe that's why she refused to smile for the camera that day? her papaw was missing...
it was a good day. we all even avoided getting sun burnt! which is pretty amazing considering out skin...towards the end of the visit, i pulled out my gi-normous sun hat that shades about 10 feet around me (kidding, but it is rather large) & i felt better. so then addy followed suit & donned her hat. amelia, not so much. we put her had on. she took it off with a snarky smile. we put her hat on again for kicks. she took it off with more *umph* than before.
where did my kids learn this attitude from? lol.
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dad's birthday!
how did we miss getting any good pictures of wes ALL WEEKEND?! well, i do have one of him bending over the strawberry patch, but it shows his undies & his behind only. i'm guessing i am one of the onlies to find this picture enticing, *smile*.
as usual, we had STEAK that was delish, with grilled veggies, garlic mashed potatoes, & then pan-fried yellow squash with parmesan cheese atop. THEN, of course, we had DQ ice cream cake. (for the first few years we were married, i spent hours baking a yummy cake for wes' birthdays. he would fane (spelling?) a smile & eat it & say 'yes this is very good'. finally i asked what the hell? why aren't you happy with your birthday cake?' he finally told me that the only cake he wants for his birthday is specifically dq ice cream cake. the past few years, his smile over his cake is much bigger & real. *sigh* i will have to try my culinary ventures on the girls). i KNOW i took a picture of this cake, b/c it had this thing on it that said "i love my daddy" & it was so cute & wes was very happy with it, but those pics are not on picasa?! did they not upload? i must investigate this siutation.
anyway, this was amelia eating dad's birthday cake.
addy didn't want her picture taken that evening.
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adeline's actually been VERY moody the past week or more (uh, more than just normal little preschool girl moody, much more). i'm thinking she is sensing & overhearing some of the stuff about harold & i. oh yea, & the fact that her mama goes into crying fits about 3 or 4 times a day? maybe that also.
last night after addy cried & cried for an hour trying to get to sleep, i went in to see what the deal was. she snuggled up to me like a leach & just held onto me (similar to how she went down for a nap today also). addy has always been one to fall asleep on her own, but now she wants ME (not wes, it has to be me) to hold her hand, cuddle with her until she is dead asleep. it breaks my heart b/c i see this change in behavior & it is very plausible that it's b/c of our family being thrown into a traumatizing event in life. so then wes joined us (after getting millie to sleep, who we think is sick in some way & wes is taking her to the ped's this morning as i type) & we talked to adeline about mama being a bit sick, that it's my ear & my head & mama will be seeing a doctor to get it fixed. addy then went into her shouting "daddy fix it" & throwing her arms up & down like a hammer, just like my mom taught her. wes said 'i wish daddy could fix it, but a doctor has to fix it'... addy had the most sorrowful look on her face & started to stroke my cheek & ear & leg & pat my head & in her own language she started to babble a bit. my mama heart is telling me she was comforting me, giving me words of wisdom that only a preschooler can give. i wish i could understand them b/c they may be the most comforting ones of all. at any rate, her caring attitude towards me lets me know that we're sorta doing this parenting thing right.
& we're in a heat wave! have i ever mentioned that i am NOT a summer person? i could live in alaska or northern michigan or canada & be perfectly happy with the cool/warm summers. i hate the heat. & the past few years i've broken down & worn shorts & skirts. still hate the heat. i prefer to be bundled up in sweaters & blankets & snow boots, thank you very much. what's the worst is that here in the midwest, the heat is HUMID. it's not like boise, which wasn't so bad comparatively considering the low low humidity. & in idaho it seemed there was nearly always a breeze. anyway, this heat wave in late june is just plain annoying to me. i mean, who wants to sweat after being outside for 2 minutes? who wants to get sun burnt after 10 minutes (that may just be me, so yea, nevamind). & lets not get into the ickiness of sunscreen! it makes me & the girls look like we have grease on us. & i feel it, too. gross. heat, go away.
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wes just pulled in with the baby, must go see what the prognosis is.
