Today I have to go to work in the afternoon, so we don't have anything on the agenda except for the normal getting ready items:
Lately, I have been shrugging my household chores in favor or crafts or playing with my baby. This sounds like a fine way to live, but Adrian has been picking up the slack. So today I am dedicating to our home. I have already swept and mopped the studio, living room, and foyer and loaded the dishwasher.
Last night I was supposed to put Amira to bed. I don't know if her habits are changing, or if her teeth were bothering her, or if I just was doing something wrong, but I could not get her to sleep! Ugh, this is the 3rd time this week. I get her calm, I get her to lay in her crib with her eyes closed, and I stir her up by attempting to leave the room. After an hour of this I came to get help from Adrian, (who usually peeks his head in by this point) only to find him asleep in the living room! I suppose I should have taken this cue to go back to the baby's room to keep Amira on some sort of sleep schedule (part of sleep training right?), but instead we decided to play a little in the living room. Adrian had no choice but to wake up and we all lounged together before Adrian successfully got Amira to go to sleep.
And now it's bedtime for our baby again! Yes, Adrian is in the bedroom with her while I am typing this...
I unfortunately, was not able to spend the day with my father, though we had an early morning talk, chatting about, soccer, Amira & work. I spent the day with Amira and her sweetheart father. Today the air was very thick so we we down to a local park and splashed around in the water.
Enjoy the summer weather: Check!
Check!
Bonus!
and starting a new project.
And we even replaced the light bulbs in the kitchen and washed the dishes (now that we can see how dirty they are!)
I have been starting some smaller projects so I can feel more accomplished-the large afghan is taking forever, and I can get a little obsessive about have something to show for my time. I also wanted to play with some new patterns-shells-circles-trims, so this little hat was a good project.
I want to show it on, but Amira hate wearing hats. All last winter she pulled them off her head-I'm amazed we kept all her hats. She generally throws what she is not interested in on the floor. 
My tasks for today:
Made a prototype for a bird charm for the charm blanket I am starting.
Adrian had to leave work early today, and lucky us because that meant he was home early too. We got ice cream cones from JP licks (coffee and strawberry rhubarb-we did share with Amira-just another addition to the Things-I-Thought-I-Would -Never-do-as-a-Mother list). And we took a stroll around Jamaica Pond.
We came across this tree which is scarred top to bottom with initials. The tree has grown with these carvings, and they have warped with the tree so many can't be read, and some have stretched out of proportion...
I did tell Adrian he should carve our initials in, but really I can't help but feel for the tree! The others around it have been left unmarred, but now this tree invites those who would otherwise leave it alone to carve into it! So I am torn between appreciating the evidence of peoples romantic tendencies and feeling empathetic toward a tree.
Back at home, I am figuring out next steps.
And amusing myself by wrapping up Adrian while he is trying to work:)
And another Tuesday approaches it's end.
I slept in until 6:45 today! But because I thought I should be awake, I kept having strange dreams connecting people and places from different moments in my life-not very restful. I woke up to Amira and Adrian in the living room. They were sitting on my (in progress) afghan and Adrian was squeezing the blow fish so a puff of air would hit Amira's face-to her delight.
Around the house, there are so many moments of left over activities-
Where I get ready in the morning, a chaos of accessories,
A stacking of old photos in boxes and bags,
The console table, where everything is dropped for coming and going in and out of the house.
