Hazard lights and sprinkler hoses
Today was a blast. Bobbin slept in until 8am after not going to bed last night until after 10pm and not having a nap at all yesterday. She woke up bright eyed and bushy tailed, singing to herself. Eventually she started calling for me. We had breakfast - waffles and oranges - and then ran down to the Starbucks to get Tim his croissant and coffee, and then immediately headed out to the park in Juanita - the one with the big wooden "castle" shaped play structure. She saw it from the parking lot and ran all the way up hill until she was inside it, and then ran from slide to slide, ladder to ladder, balance beam to balance beam, and back and forth and back and forth. After about an hour of that, we decided to go for a walk in the forest and ended up completing the 0.3 mile loop and then going another quarter mile round trip to the little stone grotto on the edge of the woods and back.
We zipped through McDonalds' on the way home for takeout; she was starving. Then home where she devoured her meal and then crawled into bed at 2pm and slept for 2 hours straight. When she woke at 4 we ran up to the grocery store, bought all the fixings for a lasagna dinner, and then came home and cooked. She cooked, I should say. All I did was brown ground beef in a pan, stir some sauce in, and preheat the oven. She assembled the entire thing without my assistance. Scooped the meat into the pan; layered the noodles; mixed in ricotta cheese; sprinkled the final layer of mozzerella and parmesan onto it. Except for putting it in the oven; that was my job too. She even cleaned up after herself.
Have I mentioned how much I love the learning tower that we bought a few months back? The thing is a miracle. She's so self sufficient and she's so much safer on it than she would be standing on a chair.
While the lasagna was cooking we went outside and enjoyed some fun in the sun. First she helped me clean out my car; she kept coming up from the deck with glasses of water for me to drink that she had poured herself from the container I had I filled with ice water and put on the table outside. It has a spout with a button, which entertained her to no end, and turned her into quite the hospitable little hostess. "Mommy, would you like some water? Yah? Ok! I'll bring you some! Here you go!" she'd yell while running enthusiastically up the path from the deck with a little plastic cup filled with water. I must say it was refreshing in the heat. Then she'd run back down after I drained the glass, and would pour some more and run back up. Not bad. Not bad at all.
After we got the car cleaned out I let her play "driver" and she took me on a pretend trip to the park. At one point I got out to toss something in the garbage bag that was still lying on the ground behind the car from when we had been cleaning and when I looked up, my hazard lights were flashing. I asked her what she had done and she said she "pressed the triangle so people would stop and help". The girl does not forget a single detail she's ever told. I had shown her that triangle button about 6 months ago when we somehow got on the topic of why people use signal lights (she watches the cars in front of us driving, and whenever their brake light or signal light turns on she asks what happened and what they are doing. So I've explained to her all about signalling, braking, and how you know what the car in front of you is doing, and why it's important to let the cars behind you know what you're doing. She's even pointed out drivers who have turned without signalling. It's a bit unnerving). Anyway - she had decided on our imaginary trip that we needed some roadside assistance and had turned on the hazard lights. We took care of our hazard and proceeded to the park.
At this point I then filled her pool and turned on the fountain and she splashed and poured water everywhere including on the plants, which were very grateful. Then she decided she wanted to go get her bathing suit on and have me spray her with the hose. Entirely her idea. So we changed and she spent the next half hour running around in her swimsuit trying to dodge my jet spray and screaming with glee whenever I zapped her with the cold water. We climbed and slid (and discovered that it's not as much fun to slide down a plastic slide in a bathing suit as it is to slide down in full-length pants) and climbed and ran and climbed and ran and got soaked and then came inside, changed, and ate two helpings of the lasagna once it had cooled sufficiently.
I have some video of the lasagna making that I'll post when I get a chance to piece it together. But in the meantime, enjoy our car and sprinkler photos!
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