Playing Pretend

Meet Bella. I played with her this afternoon in the backyard. I was Zokeen, Olivia was Pullup and Coupon (make believe Zoe) also made an appearance. These are by far the most original names Abigail has come up with and so I wanted to document the occasion. Zokeen and Pullup were horses in a parade which involved much running around the yard and being bossed around by our owner Bella. Bella had spent much of the morning making jewelry, which included the humongous button necklace that she is proudly wearing in the photo. Every button in the package was utilized on one necklace!

Other conversations that we had today included Abigail pleading with me to let her iron some clothes to which I responded that she could when she was older to which she said I probably won't want to then and I agreed that was probably true; saying that I was the nicest mom because I was going to let her help me with the laundry (she really likes to help); asking who was going to pick us up from the airport when we went on the airplane for Kansas City (she was hoping Ruth or Adam); asking if we could buy Lucky Charms for the airplane ride to Kansas City; being very dramatic when I told her it was about 120 days until Aunt Ruth's wedding and we should probably stop talking about that; and that's all the ones I can remember. Needless to say you always have to be on your toes when talking with Abigail these days - the topics of conversation vary widely!

Jeremy's friend Gerald came for the annual guys ski weekend. Aunt Gail and Ben also come that Sunday night for Zachary's pizza and much Olympic fun.

Look how happy my family is to be celebrating Valentine's Day together! Ha Ha. Abigail decorated the somewhat heart-shaped cake and the table (ie small red streamers). Somehow I forgot that the fondue you buy from the store has brandy as the second ingredient, so she didn't much care for that but filled up on Martinellis and cake instead.

Scenes from our very short but Abigail-friendly hike around Little Mountain near my grandparents. Olivia was enjoying herself as well.

We went to the zoo that weekend that Jeremy was away with a crew of other daddy-less moms. Vincent came along and I spent much of the afternoon pushing them both in our little Graco stroller. Olivia was fast asleep in the Ergo (my new favorite but really expensive baby carrier) and they had gotten tired of walking around.