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09/04/2005 Archived Entry: "sun all day"

It's finally hot and now it's practically fall. I finally feel ready to do the beach and other summer activities, figures.

Today was just supposed to be a stay home and take care of things here kind of day. For the most part, it was. I ran to Target this morning for an errand. One item was diapers *sigh* The little miss just isn't sleeping. Not for more than a half hour at a time anyway. So we're trying disposables in case the wetness of her diaper is bothering her. See, sometimes in the middle of the night we know she needs a diaper change, but then we risk her really waking up and staying awake for 2 hours. So it's a quandry. I did buy chlorine free, non-toxic diapers. And it's just one a night, not 8 a day. So I'm doing the best I can. Part of me hopes this helps, because we could all use a little more sleep, but part of me hopes the wetness has nothing to do with it because I really don't want to use a disposable, even if it's only one a night.

After lunch Chris cleaned up a toy that my mom had bought to keep at her house when Tabitha was a baby. It's been in our garage all these years. It's like a play yard in that it's a series of panels that you can hook together to create a hexagon shape. Two of the panels have "busy" activities on them to supposedly interest baby. We thought it would be good to put in the sitting area outside to help contain Daisy since she is fairly mobile. Of course, Tabitha hopped in there with her to play and I flashbacked to my sister doing the same thing when Tabitha was Daisy's age.

Since today is the fourth, it's Daisy's 7th month birthday and therefore time for another picture sitting. I decided to stick to doing it myself so we headed off to a park in search of Mother Nature's wonders. We did find a nice area that afforded us a good background. The only problem is Daisy decided not to look at the camera. I had to enlist the big one's help to get her to look in my general direction. But, as usual, I'm pleased with how they came out.

There were some swings near where we were taking Daisy's picture, so Tabitha go some good swinging time in while Chris and I sat with the baby. One of the swings was a baby swing so we went ahead and put Daisy in for a few minutes. She seemed to really enjoy it, but no belly laughs as I had hoped.

After dinner we hit the back yard again. This time Tabitha played in her sprinkler while Chris, Daisy and I were in the sitting area. Daisy was not what you would call a happy camper, so she pretty much sat on my lap and whined for half an hour. But Tabitha had a blast and it was a lovely temperature with an even lovlier breeze coming through. Of course that breeze made Tabitha rather cold so once her lips turned blue we called it a day.