Friday night, Auntie Jenna, and our friends Maria and Brad came over to watch the baseball game and have some pizza. Reese got to stay up late for the pizza party, and FINALLY, I have a child that loves pizza! She loved the pizza sauce more than the pizza actually. She dipped the pizza crust and bread stick into the sauce and would suck the sauce off, then dip again.
She spent a lot of time just sitting on my lap. We played lots of i-pad, i-phone, watched "elmo" (sesame street) videos on the computer, snuggled, played tickle and zerberts, and just hung out and enjoyed each other's company. We also shared some ice cream. Don't tell Dono about that last one.
She also got to take a bath all by herself. A rarity. She was having such a great time, and I asked her several times if she was done and she kept saying, "No!". I finally drained the tub and she protested and just laid down in the empty tub and refused to get out. All while very happy I might add. She doesn't get to have that much room in the bath with her brother usually, so she spent the majority of her bath laying down and kicking. She even put her head all the way under water! Not on purpose, but she held her breath like she knew what she was doing. I guess instinct kicks in sometimes.
She spent lots of time drawing. A little on this magna doodle she was sitting on, but mostly on paper with markers. She would point at the markers and say, "color", and we would. She colors a little, tastes the marker cap, colors a little more, then tastes the marker while looking at you as if to say, "It's a compulsion. I know it's wrong, but I can't NOT put this in my mouth." So she had a very colorful tongue most of this weekend.
She also did a lot of picture taking on my phone. She knows how to get to the camera, and she knows how to take pictures. So we have a lot of her legs and the ground and what not. Every so often I switch the camera around so she can take a self portrait. And then I photo bomb it.
My favorite part of this weekend was her new found affection for "bear". This panda bear was mine when I was a little girl and suddenly yesterday she was all about it. In fact, last night when Reese and I were at the table sharing ice cream, she insisted that I share it with panda bear. I refused at first but she really let me have it, so we "shared" our ice cream with panda too. Then he got some water from the sippy from Reese when we were done with the ice cream. Reese was a little sticky so I wiped her off with a wet paper towel, which she then took and wiped off panda's face with too (I had to do a second round of panda clean up as she didn't get all the ice cream off his face). Then we played for a few minutes before bed and she asked me to do "neigh" to the bear. Reese and I had been doing "the lady horse goes......" that thing where you put the kid on your knee and go through three different kind of horses and progressively get bumpier and bumpier until they are going all crazy at the end. Well Reese calls it "neigh" and she gave me panda on my knee, and then said "neigh" and waited expectantly for me to start the game. So I had to play with the panda on my knee, like he was a kid. I loved that she was acting like he was real and wanted to have fun too. Then we went to bed and I got in trouble for leaving panda in her room when he needed to go in the bathroom with her for teeth brushing. So I got him, and after she was done brushing her teeth, she brushed his. So sweet.
This morning she shared her ice water with him. He is a pretty messy drinker but she did pretty good keeping it under control. She also was showing him how to make funny faces, which is what she was showing me in this first picture, and then him in the second.
Then she got thirsty from all the sharing and took a drink herself. (On a side note, she made me do "neigh" with a porcelain hippo piggy bank today as well. It was very strange.)
On Saturday, Tom, Reese and I went to Tom's work's family day. Family day at Boeing, is pretty bad ass. You get to get up close and personal with all kinds of awesome fighter jets. Old ones, and new, amazingly awesome ones like a F-15 which make you proud to be an American. Reese wanted to touch all the jets, so touch them we did! She even tried to lay on a wing of a bi-plane, which I let her do a little bit. It was right by Lambert airport so we got to be front and center for a lot of big planes taking off too, so that was awesome. Donovan would have loved it but it was nice just being the three of us. We never do anything just the three of us, and it was nice for a change.
That being said, we are now eagerly awaiting our little man's return. He should be home any minute and we are so excited to see him! We enjoyed our Reese alone time, but we missed our big guy too! Even Reese did! She would ask multiple times a day where he was, it was cute!
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