Mom Night In

Tonight I am home alone with the Lily Pad. David is at his buddy, Ryan's bachelor party/bbq. Ryan is holding his party at his coffeehouse. Ryan will be getting married next Saturday. I'll make sure to post some pics of the event.

Anywho - Lily is in bed and I'm hanging out. I found a showing of Bridget Jones on tv and watched the end of the movie. Love that movie! I am currently reading "The Time Traveler's Wife" and I plan to dig into that soon. I'm also making my favorite cupcakes. White cake with dark chocolate icing. In the end there will be 24 cupcakes. Some of these will have to go to work with David so I don't eat them all. I probably should have waited to make this for my birthday in June, but alas, I did not.

Lily's been very cuddly lately - love it!

Hodge Podge

It's almost noon. Lily is napping. We just got back from Toddler Time at the Rockrimmon library. I have been missing out! I knew about this program, but just spaced it out. Lily really enjoyed herself. The librarian read books and sang songs. Lily was a bit quiet, but seemed happy. Once we got in the car, Lily requested me to sing "Wheels on the Bus" by stating "again" over and over until we got home. The library closest to my house has their Toddler Time tomorrow, I may just take her again!

I'm on work hiatus. I finished up my main project there. yippee! So, I'll be calling in on Friday to see if there are any more projects they need help with. Until then, back to being a full time stay at home Mom.

I've been feeling like Lily may need more than just Mommy time. I'm hoping to get her involved in more playgroups and perhaps swimming lessons this summer. I also may look into Kindermusik. I think having something simple to do a few times a week would be good for her and me!

This was technically my 3rd Mother's day last Sunday. Unfortunately David (husband) was sick and we ended up staying inside. He said he'd make it up to me. So, looking forward to that! Hrmm, day at the spa? Time to sit and read a book at a coffee house? Caribbean Cruise? hee hee

I've been making more cards lately. My good friend Betsy is now a Stamping Up consultant, so we have been making it a point to try to stamp at least once a month. It's a lot of fun to get together with her and make fun cards (she is one of my liberal friends and we can talk liberal politics! Thanks Betsy for being an outlet to me in the conservative town!)
I would show you what we've made, but I gave them all away before taking a picture of them. oops! Oh well.

Lily just looks like a little girl to me in this picture. Where's my baby??

Below the crab apple tree

Grandma let us borrow her kid rocking chair and Lily loves it!

Speech

Inaugural Speech 2044 - hee hee

Indiana and Obama

Today my home state of Indiana is in the news for their primaries. My sisters, Christie and Bonnie, got to see Barack Obama speak last night in Indianapolis. They were quite excited after the event and called me. Apparently, they were in line for a long time before the speech. Here is a bit of their email to me.

Christie and I got to see Barack Obama tonight. We went downtown around 3:45 this afternoon, and waited in line for about 3 hours. We finally got into the park, got rained on, saw Stevie Wonder play 3 songs, and got rained on some more. Finally Barack came out, and we saw him speak. His message was both hopeful and inspiring.

Christie, Bonnie and I are Obama supporters. I don't mind Hillary so much, but I'm nervous about some choices she is making of late. I don't support the gas tax relief and I don't enjoy hearing the words "obliterate" when speaking of Iran. But, since this post isn't a "political" blog in nature, I'll keep the rest of my opinions to the ears of my husband, family and my other liberal friends :)

Bonnie and Christie

Stevie Wonder! (now that is cool no matter who you support!)

Playtime, Babysitting and Politically Incorrect

On Thursday Lily's friend Zach came over. Zach was shaking the baby gate and Lily thought it hilarious.

Mama LaRain read to the kiddos.

Friday night I got to babysit for my friend, Melanie's 4 month old little boy, Ian. I realized just how big Lily is now compared to little Ian. Lily did okay with me holding Ian. She only got upset when Ian cried. That made Lily cry too. It was a bit hectic as David was working and I had to wrangle the both of them. However, Hero Husband came to the rescue and gave Lily a bath and put her to bed for me. Thanks David!!!

Now this is wrong, very wrong. But with my husband and my twisted humor, I found it hysterical. These were the pajamas Lily had on this morning. They are not quite a style I would have chosen for pajamas, yet, they were hand-me-downs and they were free! I was in the other room when my dear husband said "Hey Lily, go show Mommy your polygamist ranch pajamas." I know, wrong!! I'm so sorry! But I must say I laughed my butt off.