I worked from home yesterday.  Just as I was heading to the office, Tatiana crawled into the big bed.  I helped her get settled in.  She always says "I need an arm".  She wants to use one of our arms as a pillow.  Then she said "Why are all these pillows here?"  I had to chuckle.  She was crawling into my place in the bed.

Later they came out to the office to give me a hug.  She was wearing her adorable red ladybug raincoat.  They ran errands then and went to a play place.

They didn't get home until dinner time.  She wanted to play with JJ, but I don't want her to spend all her time doing that.  So, I drew with her a little.

Today is going to be a busy day for her.  They are taking JJ to the zoo.  It will be nice for Tatiana to have someone to show off the animals to and run around with.  Kids are free on our family membership.  Then she has tumbling class and then dance class.  She will probably be tired and cranky this evening.

Weekend update

Friday evening we spent as a family.  Normal evening.  We ate dinner.  Scotland is teaching her to ask to be excused from the dinner table.  It is adorable.  Scotland went to the Plano house after she was to bed.  Since Tatiana wanted me to read lots and lots of books, we decided he could leave before the daddy cuddle time.  That was a mistake.

Saturday was a Mommy and Tatiana day.  We went to Sam Moon to buy a hair extension bun for her dance recital.  That was lots of fun.  I got one just like hers.  I figure that I will wear it to her dance recital too.  We also bought some sparkly hair doo-dads.  It was lots of fun, and she had lots of women cooing over her.

Then we got her fairy photo.  While he was looking up her name I saw Tatiana's photo on their slide show.  I didn't get to see much of it because by the time I registered it was Tatiana, it had gone onto the next photo.  So, Tatiana and I waited the 7 minutes while it cycled around again.  It was from the first photo shoot.  It had her kissing a frog.  I am going to see if we can buy a no-frills version of that photo.  It is so darn cute!  

Then we went by the Plano house and saw Daddy and he loaded up the car with stuff to take home.

Sunday morning we went to the Methodist church.  I'd really hoped we'd like that, but we didn't.  There were only 3 kids under 13 at the Sunday School.  So, we are going to try the other church on the list, and hope that they aren't woo-woo like we think they are.   We'll probably end up going back to the first church.

I was super tired so I laid down when we got back.  I couldn't sleep until she went to play with JJ.  Then I slept for 4 hours.  She plays so cute with JJ.  I went to get her at 6:30 when she'd been playing for 6 hours, and they wanted to come play with Morris.  But, neither of them had eaten dinner.  So we told them they could play with Morris another day.

Tatiana read "When you give a pig a party" to me.

Lately the bedtime book routine is that Tatiana reads Scotland two BOB-type books.  Then, Scotland reads her a chapter from a chapter book.  The current one is about a cat that was got as a mouser and he doesn't want to hunt mice.  So he colludes with the mice to pretend to hunt them.  Then I give her the shot.  Then I read her a bible story.  Then I read her 3 picture books, and if she reads me one book, I will read her a fourth book.  The books she's been reading to me has been the Usbourne read together books, where I read the small font words, and she reads the big font words.  But, we couldn't find any of the those yesterday.   She was looking for the Go, Dog, Go book to read to me, when Scotland saw the Give the Pig a Party book and asked if she thought she could read that.  She said, "Yes, if Mommy helps me when I need help, and she always does."  

So, she read that book to me.  It was pretty wonderful.  Also, since we got Morris, he is between us when we read.

Tabby eating bacon

Yesterday we were in the living room and Tatiana was in the blue chair with Tabby in her lap.  Scotland handed Tatiana a piece of bacon. I think she fed most of it to Tabby.  I asked if Tabby ate most of it and she said that they "both got the exact same amount."   They both seemed to really enjoy the bacon.  

Last couple of bedtimes, Tatiana hasn't asked for Daddy cuddle time after Mommy cuddletime.  She is content to cuddle with Tabby on her bed.  Our little girl is growing up.

April 8th. See Tatiana after visit to Gram and Grandpa

Tatiana got back yesterday afternoon from visiting Gram and Grandpa.  She has tumbling at 4 pm and dance at 6 pm.  Scotland took Tatiana to the park by the library and asked me to get her at 5:45 pm for ballet.  When I pulled into the parking lot near the park I saw her running, but she was running away.  She looked so adorable and having fun that I decided to park at the dance studio and walk over.  It turns out that she was running TO me, but she was running around the creek.  She'd been crushed when I drove away.  When I walked up, she ran straight to me with her arms out.  It was really wonderful.  Then we walked to the studio and played until the dance class started.  She is the belle of the play floor at the dance studio.  I think it is that she has such joy in her play.  I mentioned that to Scotland.  He said he saw the same thing.  The tumbling girls are all much older than her.  He could tell that they really really wanted to play with Tatiana but that they thought they were too old.  Which is sad since I think the oldest is 8.  The dance class had 3 kids sign up just this last week, and one was trying it out.  So, the class is big now.  She is so cute in the dance class.

Then we got home and she wanted to play with JJ.  So, I walked over and watched them play.  Then we came home and just had time to eat and then bedtime.  I think back to her running to me with her arms open.

Blowing Bubbles

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Tatiana loved to blow bubbles here . In fact every time that she hears word "Humongous" = she remembers that is what I call super big bubbles .