Wednesday

Scotland did some work yesterday, so Tatiana was with Judith when I got home.  I could hear her playing when I walked in the door.  The first thing Judith said was, "Too bad you weren't here 5 minutes ago"  I thought I'd missed something cute.  Judith said that 5 minutes ago Tatiana was asking for me.  She knew that it was time for mommy to come home.  I got home about a half hour early because I'd left at the crack of 5pm.  Any earlier just seems wrong.  Tatiana was very happy and she really wanted to be held, but she wanted me to stand so I would move around, and she wanted something to play with.  Judith said she'd had a wonderful conversation with my mom.  Talking about Tatiana, of course.  Judith said, "I think your mom loves Tatiana as much as I do."  I think she'd started to say, "almost as much" and then she realized how silly that would be.  We talked for a little while longer, then Judith left.  After Judith left, Tatiana was willing to go into the backyard with me.  She hadn't been while Judith was there.  I sat in the swing and she played in the yard.  Then we went to the library.  She loves the library.  One nice thing about that play area is that the kids that come there are good kids with attentive parents.   Some older kids were putting on a little puppet show.  One kid had a dog and the dog said "I hate marshmellows".  The other kid had a shark and the shark contradicted everything the dog said, so the shark said he liked marshmellows.  I was wearing a peasant skirt and she loves it when I do that.  She sometimes grabs the skirt and leads me where she wants to go.  Then she looks up at me with this great big smile.  She also likes to wrap herself in the skirt and play peek-a-boo.  We got home and she played a little bit but was ready for PJ time.  She was very happy all evening, but she waited for Scotland.  When he got home we were both on the mancave floor sharing a pillow.