A Terrific Toddler Day!

Em is with me for 3 nights and 3 days while her mom and dad are with their youth leaders in Arizona. She has been a delight the whole time. Saturday was great. After breakfast we read books. Her favorite was Finding Tigger. We watched the Curious George DVD. We went to the Post Office where she got a Junior Postal Worker sticker for her shirt. We had lunch with Aunt Tiff at Sadies.

Then we headed to Borders for the afternoon of fun for kids. I told her it was a party so she was in her car seat saying "party, party, party!" while she made her hands go up and down. We heard stories and got to color. Then of course she wanted to play in the fountain. She's so cute trying to outsmart the fountain. She cried when I told her we had to leave, it was nap time. She asked for a cookie ("Tookie?"). I told her no and then she really cried. She obviously knows that the Tollhouse store and the water fountain go together!

She took a good long nap. Then we went for a 45 minute walk. I'm sure the neighbors think I am crazy (maybe I am!). While she is here walks mean I have her in the stroller and 2 excited dogs on leashes. I am sure we make a sight.

After dinner we colored and did a puzzle and then a bath. What a day! Fun to see it all through a toddler's eyes.

Em is eating breakfast & counting my dogs. She likes counting them since she can count to 2!

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I'm Learning

The Internet is amazing. Kara was in the office tonight in Brazil. So at 10pm her time, 7pm my time, we were chatting on Skype. She helped me figure out how to automatically send my blog to up to 10 people. So 10 of you are getting this e-mailed to you. The rest of you will have to discover it!

New York! New York!!

My kids talked me into blogging. I'm not so sure my life is interesteing enough to keep this up - but we'll see how it goes.

Kara and I spent the last week in New York. We have wanted to go for a long time. Since she moved to Brazil this week, we decided a NY fling as a send off would be fun.

Boy was it ever! We walked our feet off, got quite good at riding the subway, survived a week in a hostel in Harlem (it was a great place to stay), saw all the traditional sights and 2 shows on Broadway. I couldn't have asked for a better week in NY . . or a better person to see it with.

In case you are ever in the positon of deciding between Mama Mia or Mary Poppins - Mary Poppins was by far the better play - 'practically perfect in every way' and stunning too!

We ended the week with our goodbye - both trying not to cry. She helped me get my luggage to the bus and I rode to Laguardia and flew home. Kara went back to the hostel and loaded her bags in a taxi and flew out of JFK airport. We each left with a whole bunch of great memories!