She has spent the past weeks since her visit processing all the photos she took that I singled out as my "favorites". Usually she picks the best 20 or so and people pay for each photo they want to keep. I picked 92. That's what you get for doing favors for family! Click here to see all of them, they're too beautiful for words. A wonderful, wonderful gift for Mother's Day.
Someone else gave me a present, too.
I know he's going to hate me someday for posting that. But what a cutie pie. Somewhere between my birthday and Mother's Day, Jack decided all on his own to use the potty. He told daddy he wanted to sit on it, AND THEN HE POOPED IN THE POTTY LIKE IT WAS NO BIG DEAL! I wanted to take a picture of the poop. Danny wouldn't let me. But we were elated. Potty training?? Who needs training?! Jack is already a professional potty-user!
He hasn't used it since. Just wanted to prove he could, I guess. So that he could really show us who's boss when we're cleaning up the poopy diapers.
Anyway, now to the main event. We met up with Uncle Peter and Aunt Lori and Big Jack and Lolo and Clare and Nana (that is just how Jack lists them off, and it is so fun to listen to him running through the names over and over in the backseat of the car) for a picnic at Rancho San Antonio. After a week of summer, it was blustery and (if one had never lived in Minnesota, one might say) FREEZING. We had no competition for the picnic grounds. We huddled around the coals that were cooking our hot dogs. But it was great fun. Sadie spent some time flirting with her nana.
Jack, meanwhile, learned how much fun wide open grassy fields can be, for playing baseball...
Apparently you get what you pay for when it comes to kites, and these were cheap. Peter had to do some finagling to get them to fly at all. I thought all you needed to fly kites was wind, and we had that in abundance. But until Peter stepped in, Lauren and Clare and Lauren's friend Ashley were spending a lot of time winding and unwinding the string and the kite was spending a lot of time on the ground or dive-bombing onto it. Jack thought that was hilarious, though. He might have enjoyed the diving more than the flying.
Then we took a very long walk (which had never seemed long to me before, but then I had never been with kids in tow before) out to the little farm they have there, and paid our respects to the animals. On the walk back, Sadie woke up and decided she'd had enough of the stroller, so I carried her. Jack decided he'd had enough of walking and fell asleep on Danny. Somehow on our family outings we always wind up with our hands full of kids and an empty stroller that still needs to get pushed, even though there are no hands to push it. Luckily today there were plenty of extra hands.
Right as we were leaving, the sun came out and it warmed up about 20 degrees. Just in time to tuck the kids in the car and drive away quickly, so as to keep the kids asleep. Oh well. There are plenty of beautiful days in California, but not enough surrounded by so many loved ones. What a happy day. Happy Mother's Day to the rest of you mothers in our lives that we didn't get to spend the day with. We wish you were here!
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The color and clarity of your pictures is wonderful. Is that your new lens? Or is that just because you had nice light outdoors with your regular lens? It doesn't seem that long ago we were there, when the grass was just getting green, and now it's turning golden already. Spring must be over there in spite of the cool weather.
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