THIRTY-FOUR

Cora stayed with us again for a few days this week. Vera sat on her bed waiting for her to wake up watching her sleep like a creep. 

2015 week thirty-four

Summer had a fit of peace and brought us two lovely days this week. So nearly all our photos are from the park.

It was still 100 degrees this day, but we went through all of V's last year winter clothing to see what would fit and she insisted upon wearing this jacket for the rest of the day.

When she thinks I'm not watching her, she gets very brave at the park. She even went down the slide -more than once. 

More bravery at the park. 

She did not find enough bravery to sit on the tractor though. This was as close as she dared go.

A park near our church building is halfway under construction and has these wonderful kid paradise dirt hills that V loved to run around on and that Matthew loved to drive his R/C car on. 

I really want to brag about how I drove this car around for maybe 7 whole minutes and did not crash it once. 

Before Matthew saw how far away I was standing and had a paternal instinct kick in to protect her better. :) She was so brave though. If a two-year old is doing this, how are these playgrounds even fun for older kids? 

Quotes:

V pointing to something, "That is broken." *sigh* "yep that happens."

On a walk she told me, "I dont want to get lost. Then get put in the trees!"
Me, "You would be so high up what would you see?"
V, "See Mama walking. *sigh* yep, that happens"

She has learned to blow on all her food if it is too hot. It is really precious to see her cheeks balloon out and blow on each bite then yell, "It's COOLING DOWN!"

She has really taken to asking to be excused from the table. She thinks it is really great fun, and I'm more than happy to oblige her in being polite. When she's done eating she'll hang up her smock on the back of the chair and wiggle and smile and say, "Mama, I can be excused please?!"

She was crying about something and when she started to feel better she wiped her eyes and said, "Get the sadness off my eyes!"

This quote is from Matthew. We had polenta with cheese and spaghetti sauce which is something that I know is fairly common fare but I had never eaten nor made it before this week. My good-natured husband ate it all but laughingly called it "spaghetti-grits." I'll take it over the "yellow dirt salad" that my golden beet salad was dubbed last year. To be fair they really did taste like dirt.  Spaghetti grits however were delicious.

Frequently while we are driving: V, "Go Mr Car! Go! Go! Go Home! Go to bed! Put your pajamas on! Get your blankets! Go! Go home! Go to bed Mr Car! Go! (or some variation on the theme. She likes to yell at the cars in front of us if they stop/slow down for any reason -like the person who lost their mind at me while in the parking lot I stopped to let a pregnant woman cross the street. Craziness.)


Story:

Matt has been playing a lot of fun silly games with Vera this week. We borrowed a big blue exercise ball to ease some pregnancy hip pain, and it is V's favorite new toy. Matt will hold her hands and she will kick and kick and try to stand up on it. Or he'll roll the ball after her Indiana Jones style and then "crush" her with it. She loves playing "wake up" where he pretends to sleep and she gives him a huge kiss and then he grabs her and tickles her. They also had a lovely bonding moment when a package of nearly 600 sticky-backed googly eyes arrived in the mail and he taught her how to take off the backing and put the eyes in silly places. She reveled in the unfolding mischief and talked about it all the next day, bringing me photos or books displaying her handiwork. She still does not love to be unceremoniously picked up or held by Matthew, but she could play silly games with him for hours. I love to see it.