Playdate

I was able to have a play date today with one of my former day care kids.

Here are some pictures from our busy day...

A happy baby...even in the car!
I picked her up at FS and then we drove back to Bellflower.
(After stopping at McDonalds for breakfast, of course!)


I let her play with the "small" toy collection I have...I might
need to get a few more toys, don't ya think!?!


A typical kid, she is already fascinated by the telephone,
so we call Mommy at work to update her
about our very fun day so far!


I needed to make some cookies for a party on
Thursday night...she is the perfect assistant
in the kitchen! She adds the sugar...



...and then she adds the baking soda into the sifter
with our other dry ingredients. Good job, baby!


Lunch! She LOVES the Mac-N-Cheese! Says "Mmmm" after
every bite! She even eats her peas and shovels in her applesauce
by the handful. As for the ham...that went to the dog. Lucky you, Bruno.


She took a two hour nap from 1-3pm. Two hours!!!
I took advantage of this and baked those cookies.


After a diaper change and a snack, she had a piano lesson.
She loves the piano! This girl is ready to perform in public! She sounds GOOD!


I also took her downstairs to my scrapbook area. She colored her very own pictures. Then is was back to playing with the toys before it was time to head home to meet up with Mommy. What a terrific playdate!

Explantion of My Links...

I have wanted to add 'Links" to my blog for some time now, but I just didn't take the time to do it. And actually, I was more interested in getting the Archive set up. It was taking me forever to get that figured out! (I guess if I would have read the directions, I would have been able to do it right away, but...well....yeah.)

So the archiving was now easy and there was the link button right below it, so I added the following links to my blog. I added my sister's blog Elizabeth because I feel cool if I have more than just one or two links. She has not updated her blog in quite some time, and in fact, there may only be two entries....but it is there anyway.

I had to put Billy the Beagle's blog in my list of links because very few dogs are cool enough to actually possess his or her very own blog.

I listed St. Matthew's because this is where I go to church. And, if I want to know information quickly, or check out the bulletin on-line, then it is a quick jump over to their website as I am editing my own blog.

Baby Lucy is actually my neighbor's daughter. You see, my family and the Cole family have been neighbors for many years...maybe even 20 years. Jeremy is the second child in the Cole family, and Lucy is his beautiful daughter. I like babies, and Jeremy's wife Jessica does a great job keeping updates posted regularly. So, once again, this link is mostly for my own benefit because I can check to see what new and amazing things Lucy is doing easily.

The last blog I have listed in my Links belongs to a good friend of mine, Jeanette. In fact, she is the one that first got me started in this blogging thing, so it is only natural that I would want her blog among my very own link section. Jeanette is just a couple of months younger than me and she is the number one child of the Cole family. I took singing lessons and piano lessons from her mom and dad when I was younger, and I have been known to visit her a couple of times while she was out in DC. Now, we are neighbors once again, and whenever we have time, which isn't often enough, we get together and scrapbook. Jeanette is great. She has the most perfect reddish-blonde hair and the most beautiful voice I have ever heard in my life! If I had her voice, I would never stop singing! (Hmmm...perhaps that is why God did not give me such a beautiful voice...He knew people wouldn't want to hear me singing all of the time! Hehehehehe!)

The next link...probably the Paper Source. It is a great store that my Aunt Mary Ellen introduced me to. Hooray for scrapbooking!

the Beagle

Has there ever been a sweeter beagle?

It is doubtful.

Billy and I had an enjoyable weekend together. The best part of this weekend was that the very mean, beagle-hating neighbor BILL was not around to bother us. Bill, whom also happens to be a prof at the U of I in Leisure Studies, is very much into relaxing and "enjoying his garden" as he has put it before. Thankfully, with the temperature averaging a mere 4 degrees, Bill has not had to worry about sitting among his floppy flowers, and Billy and I have been able to maintain a peaceful three days.

Here is a picture of the very evil Bill.

(Don't let the grin fool you. He is a mad man!)

Voodoo doll coming soon!

Remembering Grandma

It is a sad day today....Grandma passed away one year ago today. We had some pizza and watched the Illini basketball game with Grandpa tonight. And the Illini finally win one!

Getting Easier...

Finally...navigating around downtown Bloomington is getting easier! I am starting to rememer some of the short cuts I took while going to ISU, and discovering new short cuts, too. And you know what they say about short cuts....."It's supposed to be a challenge, Kyle...if it was easy, it would just be 'the way'!" - Road Trip