Day 97 - April 7

Shortly before I took this picture, Michaela was standing right next to me. We'd gone outside to "smell" the flowers in the front yard, so I, of course, grabbed my camera. I sat down on the front walk and just caught whatever shots I could.

Michaela, having gotten tired of the flowers and the picture-taking, looked over at me and said, "I play?" I asked her, "Do you want to go play?" She answered yes and then promptly took off across the front lawn, alone and without shoes, no less, toward the playground across the street.

Right before I took this picture, I sharply told her to stop and that she couldn't go to the playground alone. She's looking, as you can guess, in the direction of the playground.

We grabbed her shoes and headed over shortly after I took this picture. For some reason, I couldn't say no....

Day 96 - April 6

It's another one of the kid today. I can't help it. I need more subjects.

We were "relaxin'" on the couch this afternoon, sharing a bag of microwave popcorn and watching "Tangled" (SUPER cute movie!), so the only camera around was the phone again.

She's definitely her mommy's kid with her unadulterated LOVE of popcorn. She tried to shove it in hand over fist!

Day 95 - April 5

Sliding. Again. This time on a twisty slide, just to mix things up a bit. Thankfully the other kids at playgroup learned to go around her at the top of the slide. She was too busy looking around, chit-chatting and then slooooowly going down the slide so she really would've held up the line if they hadn't figured it out!

Oh, and a new iPhone app today.... this one does different effects after you've taken a regular picture. Fun!

Day 94 - April 4

Everything is a "monkey bar" in Michaela's world. Have I shared that already? Usually she actually finds something that resembles a monkey bar, but sometimes it's the bar across the top of the slide, the railing as she's climbing up and down the playground stuff, or, like today, one of two parallel bars. The kid just likes to hang from things.

I'm learning that giant camera + solo parenting at the park + increasingly more active kid = bad idea, so it's back to the trusty Hipstamtic app again today!

Day 93 - April 3

Again with the kid. Seriously, I need to find other things that are at least half as interesting in my life.

Since said kid decided to sleep in until almost 10am again today, there was no church and no time to get to a park or anything like that before lunch and naptime. So we hit up the playground across the street (I LOVE that we have that available to us) and she went right to her new (again) favorite thing.... the slide. She used to LOVE the slide, but got skiddish of all slides after an incident a few weeks back when she jammed her leg pretty badly while on a slide.

This one is fun, though, because she can climb up herself.

Day 92 - April 2

Today we went over to Pensacola to attend the wedding of our friends Jeremy and Amanda. Jason works with Jeremy and Amanda just got her wings this past week and will be joining the Coast Guard's 60 community (those are the helicopters Jason flies).

It was a beautiful day in Florida - the perfect day for such a great couple to say, "I do."

This shot is a picture of Amanda being welcomed to the 60 community at the end of the sword arch. Tradition says the bride gets a tap on the behind and a "Welcome to the Coast Guard!" but since she's already IN the Coast Guard, they went with "Welcome to the Big Iron!"

Congratulations, Jeremy and Amanda!!

Day 91 - April 1

We're going back to the Hipstamatic on the iPhone today. Pay no attention to the fact that it looks like Michaela's arms are dirty - that's just something the app does. I think it'll be hard not to look at her smile anyway! (And it only took about 6 pictures taken one after another to catch a big ol' smile!)