Swimming, cleaning and the purple crayon....

Here are some pics from swim class today at the Y. Bell loves the water and has a great time (I know you can't really tell it from this picture!) Usually there are three of us from playgroup there with the kids, but this week Alex's (far left) grandma was in town, so she took him in the pool, and Emma's (middle) dad came and took her in. My friend Virginia got these pics of Bell while taking pics of Emma. She also got some great video clips, but I can't download them, only watch and e-mail them :(( Not the best shot, but you get a little glimpse of by pregnant belly here in the one group shot.

I really hate our kitchen floor, it is not bad looking, just so hard to keep clean! All the little grooves in the tiles trap so much dirt. So every once and awhile you need to do more than just mop it. I was sick of it today, so decided today was the day to get on my hands and knees and do some work on it (not that easy at 28 weeks!). So while Bell ate lunch I started by the dog bowls (always the worst spot) and worked around by the cabinets, you know, the spots the mop just don't get very well. About half way through Bell was done ands wanted out. So I gave her a sponge and she went to town! She preferred washing the vertical surfaces instead of the floor, so did the cabinet doors (which once you are down on the floor looking at them needed doing as well) and washed to front of the oven about 10 times. She did learn that she does not like the taste of the bubbles on the sponge, and when she got a lot of bubbles on her hands kept coming to me and saying and signing "dirty" and needed to wipe her hands - a lot of times!! Of course the oven door was worse off after she "cleaned" it than before, but we had fun, despite the fact that once she got down, not much really got done. The other half will save for another day. When Austin came home from school and let the dogs in, half of the muddy, melted yard came in with them anyway!!

So while I was cleaning up, from cleaning up, Bell went off to play. All of a sudden I heard a noise that was just not right. Well, I turned around to find her scribbling on the hallway wall with a purple crayon. I am not sure where it came from, as we are very careful to put them away after each time (the concept of paper is not complete yet, either is the one of not EATING the crayons!!). Luckily crayon washes off wall easily.

Don got home from work not to late today, which has not been the norm lately (and he had been away overnight Thursday), so we got to have a nice dinner together. We then put on a movie (Barnyard) to watch all together (Austin had a friend sleeping over), and poor Don fell asleep watching it!! Luckily we have a low key weekend, so he can relax, but he has to go back up to NJ Sunday night to stay over for EARLY Monday AM meeting. Not being a early kind of guy, it is always better if he does not have to get up at some ungodly hour to drive there in the AM. Oh, and I am awake now typing this because they called with a question at 1 AM from work, and then I could not get back to sleep! He will be happy when things are more back to normal at work. And I will be happy for him.

Well, I guess I need to try and get back to sleep.

Night,

Karen