swimming day and bedtime battles

We had a big day of swimming today. Parker looooooooves the pool! She wears arm floaties, but she can still manuever around very easily and go anywhere she wants, or just float and bob around. In the morning, she went to a birthday party at the pool, and this afternoon, she went with us to a grown up party, where they had a pool, so she swam more. Certainly she'll sleep well tonight.

Since she swam so much, I topped her off with a PBJ sandwich and milk when we got home, and let her watch a show. It was already past her bedtime, and since she got to watch a show, I told her we'd just read 1 story. "3 stories?", she asked. No, nice try, just one story. So when it was time to pick out a book, she chose the 1 inch thick Treasury of Nursery Rhymes, the thickest book she could find. Bob had told me she had pulled that on him too, but I thought maybe it was just a fluke. Guess not.

In the end she settled for just one story, and I compromised on letting her wear her Tinkerbell panties underneath a pullup. She didn't want to take them off, she said "but then Tinkerbell will be worried about me". She's also wearing one of her dresses as a nightgown, "like a princess sleeps in, a gown". There are just so many battles I'm willing to fight at 9:30pm.

Purple Heart

Here's a link to an article about my uncle receiving a Purple Heart recently for injuries in WWII (she said, feeling old).
I'm not totally clear why he's just now getting it, but it's a neat article.

http://www.theeagle.com/stories/060107/local_20070601038.php

Bath pic-edited

I like this crop better

Baby doll sleep over

Parker has been spending all day every day messing with her dolls. Feeding them, arranging them, walking them, moving them from one location to another. Here she has them all having a sleepover, which is sort of odd, because usually this is where the 'pool' is too. Until today, we have been struggling for covers, but her Grandma made her some doll blankets, so that problem is solved. Pictures of that later.

Fun with video

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Bob got me a new camera for mother's day, and it's super easy to take little video clips with it. Here's another quick one of Parker sitting under the dog-drying towel.

Dinner with friends

(This picture was taken a few weeks ago, before the non-stop rain began. )
Here's Parker and one of her friends. The shocking part of this photo is that Parker has finished her fish sticks and he has not. We've been having a nice time lately spending evenings with friends that have kids Parker's age. She's finally at the age where she will run and play all evening, and the grown-ups get to sit and chat. Win-win.
If you click on the picture to see it larger, you can see in the background on the left where the tree that split in The Storm used to be. A couple weeks ago they came and cut the rest of it down. Turns out it was in the utility easement (so are our new privit bushes, whoops) so the neighborhood paid to remove it. Bob is scrambling to come up with a new screening option/tree solution to put back there.

Life with Bob

2 hours before company was about to arrive, I can't find Bob. I look around and find that he's decided to do some tree trimming real quick. Most of my friends complain that they can't get their husbands to do stuff around the house.....I can't get mine to stop!

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