Cooking Ratchets

We've gone from pancakes to ratchets...at least in Alyssa's kitchen. While Erik and I were project-ing on Saturday, Alyssa was using left over tools for some good ol' fashioned fun. Maybe its time for somebody to get some play food. When it was time to put the ratchets away, Erik noticed we were a few pieces short. I looked everywhere and finally found them in a tissue box with tissues in it. I thought the box was a little heavy when I put it away!

Alyssa is starting to develop her own sense of style. It really gets kicked up a notch when daddy helps her pick her clothes. On this particular day she was sporting her bright orange family reunion compression shirt, kitty cat pants, a sweater way too small, black shoes, and a hangin' curl in the front. I had to do some coercing to get her outfit a bit more appropriate for the library. We traded in the pants for jeans, her favorite.

Alyssa really likes to carry things around. We see her modeling in her car with as much stuff as she can possibly fit in it! Notice the purse around her neck!

And then she decided all these things need to go in Mommy's car! We were going to the Home Depot. When she sees me get my purse, she wants to grab a purse and then she grabbed a bag, a rabbit house, and castle. It was a little out of hand in that back seat!

The Long Afternoon

A mother's saving grace is nap time. It's the best when it breaks up the morning from the daddy-coming-home waiting period. But when the nap starts unexpectedly early and ends even earlier, you know one thing is for sure...

It's going to be a long waiting period! Especially when it is too cold to go outside.

And so it was today, but we still had fun. We colored and ate popcorn and threw egg shakers up and down the slide and painted Alyssa's fingernails and water painted and blew bubbles and eventually four hours passed, Daddy came home and dinner was eaten peacefully-the best miracle of the day.

But I'm hoping tomorrow will afford me a longer nap slightly later in the day.

Favorite Fridays

I am having a moment where I'd like to share with you my favorite something.

Today's favorite is brought to you by March...in fact I am absolutely sure that if it was not the first day of March, this would not have happened....

My favorite way to wake up in the morning is to the sun shining. And that is what happened today. (Let's not talk about the cloud cover that has since developed...) It streams through the blinds and gives you the promise of a new, fresh, wonderful day. And even if the day isn't that great you can still remember that when you woke up, it was beautiful.

What is your favorite way to wake up, that is, if you like to wake up?