A Monday in Pictures

Audrey and I had a really, really good Monday. I have always enjoyed my day at home with her, but I've been particularly treasuring our few remaining Mondays with just the two of us. Though we usually start the day with a trip to the neighborhood park, we instead waited for it to warm up a bit, and stayed inside in the morning. We did puzzles, and Audrey had storytime with her babies. She's been naming her babies lately, including assigning one of them the boy name that we've agreed on. Maybe she'll come up with a good girl name we can agree on, too!

I don't want to jinx it but she has been doing fabulous with potty training at home. So much so that Eric didn't get much done at work yesterday since he kept getting phone calls from his proud little girl, announcing, "I went potty, daddy!" Her increased success worked out well since I had told her that we would be going to get some special jellybeans in the afternoon. Yes, we've been using jellybeans as a dangling carrot for successful pottying. We needed to go to the bookstore anyway, and I had spied jellybellies there on an earlier date. Little did I know that they have Coldstone Creamery flavored jellybellies! How perfect.

After the bookstore, we went to the nearby playground, which is where Audrey plays on Fridays after she has her Coldstone fix with Eric. I of course decided to try out my new camera.

We were both having a lot of fun with our respective activities, Audrey climbing and making her mother nervous, and me messing around with my camera. I was then given the following command:

Mommy, stop using your camera and sit down on the bench! Sit down like daddy does! Right there!

The redhead yelled at me again when she realized I could still take pictures from the bench. :)

This was followed by her striking a pose, with a big grin, saying, "Cheese!"