When your car breaks down while you’re in Iowa City for a wedding and you’re stranded for at least an extra day what happens? You’re forced to slow down, realize it’s August, become nostalgic about your summer and possibly even update your blog. I’m going back-in-time for a summer re-wind to catch this thing up on some of the highlights over the past few months and also to capture everything we’d still like to do before the end of the summer. We’ve had some memorable visits to the Memorial Park splash pad this summer including several birthday parties and also many trips just because it was too hot to do anything else. One...
‘A’ is for Art
I’ve been faced with the problem of how to handle the constant stream of arts and crafts coming home with E from daycare week after week. I love each piece so much I can’t ever bare to toss anything in the trash. As you can imagine, the finger paintings accumulate at alarming rates and there will never be enough square footage to display each one. So until her first gallery opens, I had the brilliant idea of devoting a whole page on Smart at What I Know to Emerson’s art! Check out the new ‘A’ is for Art link in the navigation at the top of the page to see Em’s...
Birthday Weekend: Friday
For the entire year leading up to Emerson’s second birthday I’ve been dreaming it would be filled with confetti falling from the sky, balloons as far as the eye can reach, circus performers in the front yard…. something extraordinary! We awakened on that 7th day of September to the harsh reality that time was not going to halt so that we might run around with ribbon dancers and frolic happily in a meadow. Oh no. We were thrown into the regular whirlwind morning routine complete with a floor of yogurt and a disheveled mother which led into a full day of work for me and daycare for E. This particular...
Milestone Update
13 months — my one-year-old in action! From the time Emerson started daycare (7 months ago) she’s cried EVERY time I’ve dropped her off… until today. This morning when I dropped her off she was full of waves, smiles, and ‘Hi’s’ for everyone. Even when I sat her down to play with some balls (she can also say ‘Ball’!) she waved at me and said, ‘Hi.’ I didn’t hear a single peep out of her when I made the big exit. Maybe I could have saved myself some heartache if I had been saying ‘Hi’ instead of ‘Bye’ to her every morning. Even without adequate amounts of sleep, my days...
Toothy Grin
Check out my sweet teeth! I’ve had a hard time getting them here, but aren’t they great!? This has been an exciting week because I started daycare! I go three days a week and get to play with lots of other babies my same size! My mom’s eyes got very watery the first time she dropped me off, I think she was sad. It will get easier for her once she sees how much fun I have while I’m there! I tried to eat avocado this week but the thought of food still makes me gag. Even though I love sitting in my high chair and watching mom and dad...