The last several weeks have been rough.
Josh has been working out of town a lot since late June, but lately its been more and weekends filled with work as well.
Add in Aoife being out of the country for a month...and, well...
Piper and I had to get creative.
We went across the street a lot.
Hung out in the yard...
and went across the street...
She loves being outside.
We got a little stir crazy.
This, in my opinion, is a brilliant idea to entertain her.
lasted about 10 seconds.
lasted about 10 seconds.
no joke
We stopped by the free box in town and found some cool books.
And Grandma Sally sent some cool bells.
But we always ended up back outside.
Admittedly there was some TV time in there.
Miss Piper LOVES Tinker Bell.
And sometimes Mom needs 10 minutes.
Because even the movie doesn't hold her attention for too long.
Also in the box with the bells were some pantaloons for me AND Piper.
One of the weekends Josh was back he was able to take a day and we went and visited
Sarah and Jonah.
They are up at Tara Mandala, a Tibetan Buddhist retreat center. She's care-taking a home and working up there. Horses 10 yards from the back door was a mighty big hit.
She's fearless around them.
which scares the crap out of her parents.
I mean her little fingers look like mighty good treats!
She and Jonah got along great and totally remembered eachother.
She's wanting to sit and eat like a big girl.
well...other than the refusing silverware part...
All right all right, we did do some play dates at the park too.
Met up with friends from time to time.
And a good thing too, because we had our first snow not too long after that.
Nothing stuck on the valley floor, but it gave us a chance to test run some winter items.
And couldn't forget our orange, hunting season started you know.
In all honesty, Piper has missed her Daddy so much its horribly sad.
When he's around she's on him like glue and if she thinks he's leaving again she cries.
She's got this new thing where she wants the "units" intact.
If Grampa shows up without Grammy, she's a little off. If Josh is reading to her and I'm not there she goes and finds me. And then pats us both on the tummy looking at us and grinning.
all together again...
I told Josh she adored him, but he didn't belive me.
I think he gets it now.
Luckily he's in town for the most part for awhile, so she can get her Papa time in.
