Love & Lemons

My beautiful little sunshine & rainbows girl! Rocking her super cute lemon shoes (I was skeptical about these in the store, but they really are cute, and she’s found lots of outfits that they match really well).

I actually did Emerson’s drop-off today, since I took the day off to take care of Addison. We left early enough to get there for the car-line drop-off, and it actually went really well and we just zipped right in & out, with no issues!

Had some breakfast with my baby girl when we got back home, and then just played and watched “Beauty & the Beast,” and took it easy for a couple of hours.

We went out to get some infant meds, because I ended up not going out last night like I planned. (Literally right after I posted last night’s blog, I saw on Facebook that there had been an armed carjacking at 8pm at the Goodwill on Pensacola, and the suspect had not been found, and that’s on my side of town, and I just didn’t feel safe going out to Walgreens at 10pm, or even sending Jeff out either.) So Addie and I tried the drive-thru at CVS first (and they were just incompetent, to keep it succinct), but ended up at the mini Target, and still didn’t get everything we needed.

We had lunch with Jeff on his lunch break (sandwiches & salads for us, cut up meat & cheese for Addie), but she didn’t really eat too much, because she was just way too overtired by that point.

We spent a few minutes fascinated by this giant moth hanging out on our back patio door, and sat there looking at it and talking about it and pointing at it for a while.

She was at least super easy to get to sleep for her nap though, and then she slept for about 2.5 hours. While she napped, I finished up a Kindle book (“Part of Your World” was a really cute, sweet book, that made me literally laugh out loud multiple times), then washed up a sink full of dishes, and eventually picked up Emerson from school, all while Addie napped.

Not only did Emerson get the school cafeteria lunch for the first time today (I found the menus online, so she picked the 2 meals she wanted to eat from school this week, today was chicken teriyaki and she said she loved it), but they also did a little science experiment with lemons (she told me all about it tonight and said it was tons of fun), and her teacher sent out photos!

We worked on her puzzle for about 10 minutes when we got home, but then Addie woke up shortly after.

We did come back and work on it some more, and Jeff came over while holding Addie and helped too, and we finished it! Coincidentally, she was wearing her rainbow dress on the night we completed her rainbow puzzle, and it was perfect! We are of course going to glue this one together, then frame it and hang it in her room!

Just had to share this – I’m clearly in my “citrus era,” with my Kindle, phone case & planner all covered in lemons & oranges, and I’m loving it. (Also, it goes with the lemon shoes & lemon experiment today.)

Jeff had to go do some computer work for one of his side-jobs, so the girls and I just heated up the leftover chicken & rice from Nana’s house the other night. It was delicious, and both girls ate really well. I actually had to keep giving Addie more scoops off my plate, when she would clean her own plate.

We did bath time after dinner, and then Emerson was very helpful and helped me clean Addie’s room, and the living room. Then we put Addison in her little bouncer seat to watch her favorite tv show (Yo Gabba Gabba on YouTube), and Emerson helped me in the kitchen.

She has always asked to help me cook, and I try to give her little things here & there that she can do. She loves stirring anything in a bowl, obviously, and she can even cook scrambled eggs on the stove. But I finally ordered her a set of kids’ knives, and she couldn’t have been more excited about them! She was bummed there was nothing to cut for dinner, but I knew we could find something. Then I remembered we needed to do some prep-work for her lunches this week, so we got out the canned pears. I talked her through it just one time (not even showing her myself), and then she just took off, and ran with it! She’s watched me for years, so she was clearly observant all that time. Oh, and I didn’t actually even tell her to do the scoop-with-the-side-of-the-knife-thing, she just knew to do that on her own from watching me.

 

 

Then it was time to get Addison ready for bed, and Emerson played on her Kindle. Jeff got back home right at 8pm, which was perfectly in time to help get the girls to bed.

Both girls did well at bedtime, and things went very smoothly. Although Addison was still a little tired and a little fussy today, her fever never came back, and she has no other symptoms (other than a snotty nose), so I really think she’s just teething again. She just seems to have to work so hard to get those teeth out!

After finishing Emerson’s puzzle earlier, I’ve got the puzzle bug again, so I pulled this one out after getting the girls down. My parents gave me this one about a year ago, that they found in their garage, that is probably 20 years old, and never even been opened. That 1000-piece beach one I quit last week was way too difficult for me, but this 500-piece one is practically all shades of brown & black, so it’s probably gonna be hard too! So we’ll see if I can actually complete this one.