June 21 2012

Today was Eleanor's first official day off for the summer. I got up at 6:15 to run and wouldn't you know it that little schemer woke up at 6:30 saying "I couldn't sleep because it's the first day of summer" ...really? is that all it takes? Because I distinctly remember dragging this child out of bed every morning all year at 7:30 - 8:00 am. Maybe we need those special anti-SAD vitamin D lights in the house in the winter. I don't know anyway, I told Eleanor to read while I went out to run. She is so good, when I got home about 30 minutes later she was still reading and playing quietly in the guest bedroom next to her tent. Susie woke up at little while later. Susie sat on her bouncy horse for about 5 minutes. Eleanor sat on it for a combined total approx. 35 minutes today. I tried to find a weight limit on the box but I guess they purposefully left it off so as not to exclude any potential customers. they have an age range but I ignored it an sat on the horse anyway even though the max age is 6 and I'm 27, I will not be excluded!

Elle and I played - we made a race car ramp out of  cardboard, it was fun. Susie tried pasta salad and hated it so much she literally tried to scrape it off her tongue with her hand. Gross. After telling me yesterday that she only wanted "daddy" to read her Narnia she allowed me to read her a chapter out of the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe - "Turkish Delight" she had trouble remembering/understanding why the White Queen would be nice to Edmund to get something from him. She wanted information and the promise that he'd bring his siblings to her home. It's funny because later while I was driving the babysitter home she told me a similar story - she was watching Wallace & Gromit with Elle and Eleanor didnt' understand why one of the characters would be nice to the others simply to con them out of something. the babysitter said she tried to explain what a "con" was. haha. these themes of deception and manipulation seem to go over her head ...I guess this is a good thing for now.

susie played in her water bucket out back for while today - She's all over the place. She played peek-a-boo with me tonight when I got home from a horrible night at work. Sweet. Then she wouldn't go to sleep again. That wasn't sweet. that sucked. She needs to go to bed! And she's such a tactile face-rubbing baby - she's always rubbing her little face on soft things. Again, so sweet - Eleanor never really did that.

"Don't, don't, don't bite your friends!"
"That was close! Brobee almost ate dirty food!"