I've been terribly grouchy the past couple of days. And for no real good reason either. So this post is mostly a reminder to myself that it actually isn't that bad, stop whining and enjoy the weather.
Over the weekend we went to the Hyde Park Oktoberfest just down the street. There was live music, food and vendors, and a special children's section. We mainly went as an excuse to be outside together as a family (something that's harder to do when daddy stays at school until 5 or 6 and then it's starting to get dark!). This was Lily's chosen outfit for the day: reindeer PJ shirt that she slept in and purple princess dress. Since it was 40*F when we left at 11AM, I made her wear some warm fuzzy purple pants under it, a pink fuzzy coat over it, and a warm hat, too. It felt really nice to need to bundle up a bit.
After walking through the main part of the street fair, we made our way over to the pumpkin patch so Lily could pick out a pumpkin to decorate. She LOVES pumpkins because she associates them with Cinderella. She kept running around picking up pumpkins saying "punk!" and showing the lady who was keeping an eye on things. Then she decided what she really needed to do was to line them up on all the hay bales around the edge of the patch. Oh my little one, you are an order muppet on the inside just like your mama.
And of course Lily wanted to try the bounce house (Lily does this great thing when she's saying a two word phrase where she completely pauses between the descriptor and the noun, I don't know why, so bounce house becomes 'bounce... haus', just like that). She's too afraid to actually climb on the fun stuff and just wants to bounce a little bit near the edges. And oh my do I look like a pumpkin in this photo. Just ignore me and look at teh cute little girl in pink.
Then Lily actually turned into a pumpkin! Just kidding, but Joe was in charge of taking pictures that day and when I went through the camera this was in there.
There was also face painting. Lily said she wanted her face painted, but when the time actually came she chickened out and had the nice lady paint on her hand instead. She got a pretty purple flower ('purpa... fowr').
One of the things I've been trying to work on with Lily is her remembering what we did each day and being able to tell someone else about it. This means that when Joe gets home he hears a lot of 'Go tell daddy what we did today' and then he gets to guess at what she's actually trying to say. It's usually a fairly humorous conversation to listen in on because Lily likes to throw in random things that didn't happen. Like taking the bus to the beach (we have NEVER done this, we always walk or ride bikes) or taking the train to Ainsley's house (Becky - this is a frequent destination in our pretend travels. We'll have to come visit you for real soon). It's fairly obvious when she's making something up because she smiles very sweetly and tilts her head to the side. She is going to be trouble. But since Joe was around all day, she got to tell Grandma over the phone. And I was so proud of her! With minimal prompting she was able to tell her that she got a pumpkin, played in a bounce house, and had a purple flower painted on her hand. Language development is pretty cool.
Sigh, I have to admit, I do feel like my mood has picked up a little bit. Hopefully it'll stay that way through tomorrow...
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