May 26 2009
Belated Memorial Day Update
I’m sorry that I failed to update yesterday, but we were out all day. 
We went to lunch and shopping with Chris’s co-worker. Due to my need to come up with a name for her and the fact that she’s likely to become a neighbor, I’ll go by what she refers to herself as from time to time, Dragon. I was dubbed an “evil influence” because she picked up more skeins of yarn. I did too, but because she went ahead and purchased some, I’M the evil influence. However, despite my evil influence, she applied for a place in our park and will hopefully be moving out here. Awesome!
Her elbow is swollen and tender to the touch. We finally convinced her to go in to see the doctor who thinks it’s an infected spider bite. This is why I hate spiders. More than 4 legs = BAD.
We then went to the In-laws’ house to fix the computer before their return from overseas. I helped my oldest neice and my sister-in-law tie-dye handkerchiefs in her school colors so Neice could sell them and earn money. It was fun and I can’t wait to see how they turn out.
I also got the pictures from my mini-nature walk with Little Guy off the phone and have them available for viewing. On our walk by the creek, we went under a fallen tree and rounded a corner to find a waterfall. It was surprisingly idyllic, considering this little path ran in the back of an industrial park.
We saw squirrels, ducks, a fish swimming against the current, but no frogs. He also saw a cricket and butterflies. There was a honeysuckle bush, which Little Guy was a bit wary of until I showed him what to do. Near the end of our walk, we came across a little patio behind one of the buildings. They had set up a picnic table and a bench swing. Little Guy and I sat there for a few minutes listening to the wind in the trees and the birds singing. We compared it to an episode of Blue’s Clues where they discussed different sounds outside.
By “we compared”, I mean I pointed out some of the sounds they had on Blue’s Clues to what we were hearing. “Do you remember the sound of the stream that Steve sat by? Didn’t it sound like this stream?” My hope is that he will start making these connections himself.
The petting zoo we went to afterwards provided much amusement and laughter for Big Guy and I. Little Guy went up to the animals but was terrified of them eating the food from his hand. He’d run up, dump the pellets and then run back giggling.
So, of course, I ended up with animal slobber all over my hands in a vain effort to get Little Guy to feed them. It was amusing… Until we went up to the hand sanitizer dispenser they had available and I realized that it was empty. Yay sticky, slobbery hands.
I’m such a good mom.
