Happy (Belated) Mother's Day!

Fellow moms, I hope you all had a wonderful Mother's Day.  I'm sorry I wasn't there to spend mother's day with my mom, but I was thinking of you!  I'm glad I'm learning from the best ;).  And all my mom friends, thank you for your support!

Being a mom isn't always easy, but it is, by far, the most rewarding, amazing, fulfilling thing I have ever done.  

I am so proud to be the mom of such a beautiful, intelligent, strong-willed, funny little girl.  Who, by the way, gave me the best Mother's Day present of all yesterday when she looked up at me, gave me a hug and said, "I love you!"

At the playground on Mother's Day

playing in a water bucket....

swimming in the water bucket.

needing more "riding horsey" even after 3 carousel rides

she wanted a snack.  this is the bowl she chose for 10 cheddar bunnies.

Add caption

...And Much Needed Rain

Playgrounds:

Planting:

hugs for the shrub

and kisses for the tulips

Cherry blossom play date:

And much needed rain:

The First May Weekend

Last weekend the weather was gorgeous! My parents, aunt and uncle and cousin (who's expecting in August!) came to visit and we had a backyard BBQ.

just chilling with Grumpy

Sunday we spent most of the day downtown.  It was the first weekend the carousel was open and MiniM.E. was ecstatic (as she'd been waiting patiently for the horses to be "done sleeping" for the winter since mid-November).  We arrived just a bit early for riding the carousel, so we had to entertain ourselves in the park.

sizing up the ducks

calling the ducks

petting the dog statue

hugging the dog statue

kissing the dog statue

riding the dog statue

just chilling with Gram

When it was finally time to get on, MiniM.E. (though she didn't look it) was thrilled and we had to pull her off after each ride.  She went three times before we bribed her to leave with ice cream.

with Daddy

with Gram

alone!! (just kidding, Daddy's just hiding)

with a Daddy and H. and her daddy

Our playgroup families thought it was a great Sunday for riding the carousel and eating ice cream too!

Daddies and daughters

Too Nice to Be Inside!

It's really hard to sit inside at a computer when the weather is so beautiful.  Must enjoy it before it gets too hot!!  Though I'm pretty sure with MiniM.E.'s love of playgrounds, I'll be getting my fair share of vitamin D this summer!

I'll make my posts short and sweet- lots of photos, little text... and we can all get back outside sooner!

What we've been up to this week:

We went out to dinner with our neighbors and their daughter, Baby E. and had a great time.  Here's MiniM.E. waiting for our table at the bar.

I made a 1st Birthday cake for a friend.  MiniM.E. helped decorate (her own cake).

more went in the mouth than on the cake...

the party cake 

the smash cake

 The playground we walk to finally got a (70-year old, rusty) baby swing!  Yay!

The Horse Show is here this week and next.  We went to check it out.  We even got to pet a horse.

more interested in the tree bark than the horses 

playing in the dirt (instead of watching horses)

sorting grapes (instead of watching horses...)

The Farmer's Market is outside again!  Elmo came too!

We visited MiniM.E.'s favorite playground, the Yellow Triangle one...

love this photo.  must make wood photo transfer...

And we hung out in the grass at the Spa Park (for 15 minutes before MiniM.E. wanted to go home).

beautiful!