A good week

Back to normal life this week, after our Halloween craziness. Thank goodness for that!

This week we had an election on Tuesday, and Cora's preschool classroom was used as a polling place. So, we headed to Hart Park for a field trip!

We haven't been to see the animals for many months. I invited Colleen, Lucas and Liana to join us, so it was great to hang out with them, too.

Liana and Violet are interacting with each other more, which is really cute. They'll smile and coo and hold (and chew on) each other's hands.

In the middle of our trip, Cora was defiantly telling me "no" about sharing a rock with her friend Emily. I called her over to discuss it, and she took off the other way. Sigh.

I sent her to the "corner," or next to a tree, and she carried on for a long time. I think she secretly enjoyed having the attention of her classmates.

When she calmed down, she got to hold her friend Matthew's month-old baby brother, and then she held Violet.

This was a pretty normal week. We were able to go Stroller Strides twice, on Tuesday and Thursday, and we had Skipper Club on Wednesday night.

I had my church small group Tuesday night, and Stace got to play golf Thursday after work. On Friday night, Stace had the girls and I went out to dinner with some of my old Stroller Strides friends.

That all sounds busy, but since we had several days at home most of the day, all went smoothly.

Stace reports that his Friday night at home went brilliantly. After they ate, Violet played outside in her exersaucer while Cora and he played tennis and football. Then Cora watched a Thomas video and Stace played guitar for Violet. Then, they all read together. Good times!