Dancing

Lenna and Jackson had so much fun on the dance floor last weekend. They were laughing so hard they were falling down, but they are great dance partners!

Pondering the movements of the moon

Lenna asked me the other day while we were driving...
"Mommy, why is the moon sometimes out during the day, and sometimes during the night?" We discussed Earth spinning and Moon rotating around Earth and such, but she came up with her own hypothesis. She says "Maybe the wind blows the moon across the sky."
I thought that was a pretty good idea.

Here is a photo pirated from the Fradley's blog of Lenna and Jackson playing in the sand flats at low tide. We went to Ft. DeSoto on Friday evening; it was so beautiful... sun setting, roseate spoonbills feeding, birders fleeing as our children were flushing out the birds they had been stalking with their cameras for hours...

Happy St Paddy's Day

Manatee mania

A couple shots from New Year's when Adda, Da and Elin were here. We went to see the manatees that are taking refuge from the cold at the Appolo Beach power plant, and Lenna just loved them. She carries her baby and mommy manatee with her everywhere now, and when it gets cold out, she worries about them finding the warm water.

Driving to school the other day:
Lenna: Mommy, this is the highway, right?
Me: yep.
Lenna: so where is the low-way?

Eating breakfast, listening to NPR, the news person was talking about the Middle East, and Lenna thought it was the funniest thing in the world that there was a country named "Turkey."

Tomorrow is Today

Lenna's concept of time is fascinating. Anything that happened in the past happened "yesterday," and anything that is to come in the future will happen "tomorrow." The past she understands better than the future, but it is still just "yesterday." When we talk about the future though, she says "but Momma, tomorrow IS today!" And it's not like she has said this only once, she says it all the time, so she means it. And you know, I think she is absolutely spot on. What you do today shapes your tomorrow. Tomorrow IS today.

Late for work and...

Funny what you find yourself doing, sometimes. Lenna and I are racing around, late for work / school. I just about have her out the door and she announces frantically "squirrel needs to go potty!" Lately it takes longer to engage her in logical negotiations than it does to just play along, and so there I am, putting the lunch boxes and backpacks and coffee down, to hold a stuffed squirrel over the toilet so he can go potty.

Some photos from Thanksgiving in Door Co.

Disney Halloween

We went to Walt Disney World's Magic kingdom to celebrate Lenna's third birthday. Lenna wore her "princess mermaid" costume all day (we had a lot of fun with glitter and glue), and she got to personally meet Arial, in all her glittery glory. Overall, I think she really enjoyed the Disney experience. There were some highs (riding the carousel, seeing Cinderella and other princesses on stage), and some lows (Tigger scared the crap out of her), followed by some redemption (Piglet was not so bad). The pool at the hotel was also thoroughly enjoyed. Here are a few more photos: