Here is Isabella's Spring class picture. Once again she is spoiled and gets to sit on the lead teacher's lap, like she did in her last one. We are not sure what she is looking at. I think she looks like a jack-o-lantern the way her eyes are so far to one side. The little girl on the far right in the pink is the one Isabella has bullied in the past. We don't think she's really bullying any more, but the owner of the daycare told Jeff the other day she doesn't let anyone push her around. You can click on the picture to make it bigger and look closer at the kids, they all just crack me up.
I know that Jeff's family members who were there for the initial weed pulling must be very impressed! If it wasn't for them, we never would have gotten this project going. Thanks!
I suppose I should come clean, since the story will eventually come out, although I wasn’t hiding anything, just wasn’t feeling like talking about it, but I should share, at least maybe other mamas won’t make the same mistake I did.
Here goes.....
Sunday morning I was going out for a jog with Isabella. I realized the tires were pretty flat on the jogging stroller so I thought I’d better go back to the house and grab some quarters out of my car so I could stop by the gas station and fill up the tires. I pushed her back up the driveway, locked the wheels on her stroller (or so I thought), opened the garage door and went to my car to get the money. When I got back out of my car, I noticed there was no Isabella. She had rolled down the driveway and was rolling backwards down the street. I screamed and ran as fast as I could to get her. I caught up to her as she hit the curb and fell over. She’s fine. Miraculously only her hand was scratched up. We are lucky for some many reasons.
We were both, of course, pretty shook up. I did try to get a hold of the doctor on-call and talked to Mercy on-call who told me it sounded like I shouldn’t be concerned but to watch her pupils, watch for crossed eyes, watch for vomiting. I’m still watching her like a hawk. She’s fine.
By the way, did I mention that Jeff drove down the street with his briefcase and banana on the back of his car? He didn't even tell me about it, our neighbor did. When I tried to make fun of him he said "Did the neighbor say anything about our daughter rolling down the street?" Point taken.
We got to spend Mother's Day weekend with Grandma! She flew up from Florida on Friday and went back home on Tues. We had lots of fun with her. Grandma got to spends lots of time playing with Isabella. On Sat. Jeff and I went to even more garage sales (score on the cozy coupe)
and we got lots of work done in the flower bed. Grandma left in the afternoon to drive to Cedar Falls to visit her friend Colleen who isn't doing so well (prayers for Colleen, please).
Sunday was a trip to Lowe's, lunch at Gus's resturant, more yard work and grilling out for dinner. After Isabella went to bed we played dominoes. Jeff beat us very badly - he won every single round (it was Mother's Day... ahem). The next night during a rematch - we realized we were missing 3 dominoes! I think that means that Jeff's sweep the night before doesn't count!
It was Coralville's city wide garage sales and although we came home with a lot of good finds, I was a little disappointed.
We mainly got Isabella some clothes, which she really doesn't need, but I can't pass up items of clothing that are 10 cents - 1 dollar. And if it is cute and in good condition, I can't pass it up. Also, shoes for 50 cents, it is so crazy sometimes. She mainly needs summer hats, summer shoes and outdoor toys, and I didn't see much of that so that is why I was a little disappointed.
Grandpa Jack documented the outing with pictures, and it is kind of funny to see pictures of yourself at garage sales.
(we ended up with both the items we are inspecting here...)
We stopped back home between the wedding and reception and things were running smoothly. Aunt Loo and Uncle Bill came to visit from Madison as a surprise for Grandpa Jack's b-day. We left the whole crew at our place with Isabella (including Uncle John and Aunt Kristy) while we went to the wedding reception. It sounds like everyone had a fun time with Isabella. And we had a fun time without Isabella at the reception.
We walked outside at the Iowa River Power Company and Isabella chased after some dogs (her latest obsession) - pointing and saying "dag, dag" whenever she sees one.
We sat at special table in the restaraunt overlooking the water and ate all the yummy food.
After a quick trip to Kinnick Stadium and checking out Uncle John and Aunt Kristy's new house in North Liberty we headed back to our place to hang out.
It turned into a game of catch, kite flying, bubble blowing, weeding party.
We decided our flower bed needed major help and started a weeding process but only got about 10 percent of it done. I swear I'm going to keep working on it.... I hate looking at that and I haven't done anything with it ever, so it needs some help.
