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04/23/2005 Archived Entry: "this and that"

While Tabitha was at Daisies yesterday, I took my Daisy and went to Target. In there hot summer aisle I found a foam hopscotch just like Tabitha has really been wanting. I had been planning on giving her five dollars (she's really into cash right now) as a way of saying thank you for how much she helped me the last few days. She entertained the baby much more than I usually ask, not to mention she is really good about taking initiative when the baby needs something. I don't want her to grow to resent her sister so I try not to ask to much of her, but I really needed her this week. Anyway, as soon as I saw the hopscotch I knew it would be the perfect thank you gift so I picked it up for her. She set it up as soon as we got home (even if the picture on the packaging shows the wrong way to set it up) and had fun playing. I promised I'd play as soon as I got Daisy down even if it meant playing in the dark, which it turns out, it was almost dark by the time we finished dinner and Daisy went to bed. We were using the foam circles that came with the set as markers but they were terrible in that they kept rolling away. So I grabbed Tabitha's unopened package of Chinese jacks she got for Easter and made markers out of them like I had when I was a kid. Much better play after that. After I went back inside she continued playing for another half hour.

When I went to pick Tabitha up for Girl Scouts yesterday, I was greeted by her leader "Tomorrow 1-3 do you know how to get there?" I told her I had no idea what she was talking about so she reminded me that it's Cosmic Bowling today. Ugh, I had completely forgotten all about it as I signed her up sometime last month and in fact, scheduled a play date for her today. Man was Tabi upset when I told her she'd have to choose. I assured her we see her friend next weekend (hoping I wasn't lying) and so she tearfully chose to bowl. Chris is going to play with her and I know she'll have a grand time. The only problem is going from hula at 12 to bowling at 1 and she has to change and eat at some point. She's probably going to have to change in the bathroom at hula and we'll stop at BK for a veggie burger on the way.

Before scouts yesterday we went to the mall so I could pick up some pictures I had ordered. I love uploading them on the computer and then they are nice and ready when I get to Ritz. I don't even have to pay, just show them my printout and we're on our way. Since I took Daisy's two month pics myself I had ordered a 5x7 of one pose and an 8x10 of another. They came out really nice and it just reaffirms how much I love my camera :) I put the 8x10 in the photo screen in the living room. When we had her 1 month pics taken, we had forgotten to make sure they took a vertical so it could go in the screen. So Daisy's side has her newborn pic (not hospital, but one I took and put on the announcements) and then her two month pic underneath. But that's okay because on Tabitha's screen, she has her hospital pic and one month, but not a two month. I think I'm actually going to reorganize Tabitha's screen. It holds 15 pictures and it currently is birth to 18 months. I think I want to change that to my favorites of the first five years.

We picked Chris up from the airport with no complications and we're all glad he's home again :)