Sunday, July 12, 2009

Dinner and dancing

Last week I was in serious need of a pizza fix from a favorite pizza restaurant, so we braved the crowds and met friends for dinner. Parker was very patient while the grownups lingered over the meal visiting, but when we were done, she wanted to go play on the lawn. She loves the duck statues and entertained us by climbing up on the mama duck and dancing. She did this for quite a while...and didn't know I was filming her.

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In other news we are plugging through the hot busy summer. I've got some CAD drawings to do in July, so Parker is going to 'summer school' 3 days a week, and the other 2 days I"m filling in with sitters and swapping out playdates. She's having fun, but between that and swimming, she's usually pretty exhausted. She's gotten very comfortable in the water, and I'm sure NEXT year will be my year lawn chair sitting. This year I"m spending a lot of time by the slide or the diving board, and I usually wind up getting drenched.


On cheerful days, Parker is quite delightful. In the picture below, she has 2 clothes pins clipped on her pants. She lifted up her shirt to show me and said "look a diaper". (I use clothes pins for chip clips). She doesn't have a concept of the old style of diapers that pinned in the middle...just velcro on the sides.


Notice the tank top. This is what she considers a tank top....which I think are technically spaghetti straps. Either way this is pretty much all she will wear, UNLESS a halter top is clean. Or semi-clean. She has 2 halters that she alternates between. Actually she has 3, but the 3rd one doesn't have sparkles on it, so it is way far off her radar. She's been bugging me for some 'tank top pajamas' and I found some super cute Nick and Nora ones at Target (pic coming soon). She told me she loves them, but what would be really great, is tank top pajamas that show her belly. I am really really dreading back to school shopping. Hopefully kindergarten has a strict dress code so she's not going to school in bikini tops and mini skirts.