Mommy's Day Weekend and Grandma's Magic Garden
A fun filled weekend marked my 2nd Mommy's Day. Saturday started off with 2 belgian draft horses coming over to haul our cedar logs:
and ended with a BBQ at Jeni & Roger & Baby L's house, where Bobbin spent the afternoon in their back yard playing hide and seek with another little girl her age (just under a month older) and eating burgers while Mommy liesurely sipped wine on the deck and even occasionally went into the house to get munchies alone without Bobbin even batting an eyelash. Progress!
On Mommy's Day proper, I slept in until 7:30am (it sounds luxurious but it's actually a double-edged sword; she didn't go to sleep until 9:30 the night before), had a lovely breakfast with Tim and Bobbin, and then we headed over to Grandma's house for a visit. Grandma & Grandpa have visited here frequently, but this was Bobbin's first trip to Grandma's house, and she was absolutely enthralled.
First, Grandma has these really great bug-shaped cookies that were so nummy. And she has a whole pile of toys to play with. But the best part of all was Grandma's back yard!
Bobbin thought it was magical. She was enchanted from the moment she stepped out of the back door. There's a little pond with goldfish in it, and a tiny waterfall, and a little fish fountain spouting water. And there are flowers and plants everywhere - in the ground and in pots and planters, on the deck, and everywhere. And there's soft green grass to play on, and fun stepping stones to jump on. And there are little treasures hidden throughout that Bobbin delighted in finding - little statue of a kitty with a butterfly on his nose, and two little foxes, and bunnies, and mushrooms with fairies, and beautiful butterflies with metalic wings, and a snail with sparkly antennae, and a tiny bobbin-sized park bench for sitting on and soaking it all in. And there was even a pirate ship to play in! Bobbin didn't want to leave. It started sprinkling and getting chilly but she didn't care. It was past lunch time, but she didn't care. She was starting to get tired, but she didn't care. All she wanted was to "Go outside, Grandma's house?" Even we got home, "Grandma's house outside" was all she talked about. Grandma, hope you're ok with more frequent visits from us ;-)
After Grandma's house we went to Ruby's for lunch. Bobbin was way hungry and we narrowly avoided a hunger-related meltdown.
After lunch she fell asleep in the car ride home, and I thought for a moment I'd be able to pop her into her crib without her waking up when we arrived, but that was not to be. She was awake, tired, but having nothing to do with a nap. That didn't stop me from taking one though, while Tim gallantly tried to distract her for a couple of hours :-) Afterwards, we played outside and then came in for dinner. By that time she was thoroughly exhausted, and fell asleep in my arms at the dinner table not 2 minutes after we had sat down.
I put her in her crib and she slept for about an hour, woke up raring to go, and we finally got her back to bed at 10pm. She fought sleep with every fiber of her being. I'm pretty sure she was mostly concerned about missing out. She didn't start to relax until after I had gone through the names of every person and animal she knows, one by one, telling her they had gone to sleep.
All in all though, an absolutely beautiful mother's day. And to top it off, here are more photos from this weekend, which incidentally were taken with my brand new camera - my mommy's day gift!
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