Funny Moments

I WON'T SHARE
Earlier this week Aria and Zade were playing in the sand at the park.  I told Aria that she needed to share her shovel with Zade.  Aria said,"No, I won't share.  It's in my story.  'Aria will not share.'" She got this phrase from the PBS show "Super Readers," where the characters say they can't do things because the words in the story won't let them, and then the characters read those words to emphasize what they can't do. :)

GROWING UP
While I was putting Aria in the car, she looked at me and said, "I've finally figured out what I wan't to be when I grow up."
"What do you want to be?" I asked.
"I want to be just like you [mom]," she replied in a serious voice.  Now there's something to live up to.

SLEEP WALKING
One night after we put the kids to bed we heard a loud bang.  We went upstairs and found Aria curled up asleep on the green chair near her bed.  Next to her dresser was a huge wet spot about the size of a full sheet of paper!  For a girl who was potty trained at night since she was 2.5 years old, and has basically never had an accident, this was quite a surprise.  When we tried to change her underwear, she was still too incoherent to realize what had happened.  She must've been sleep walking. We asked her the next morning about what happened, and she thought we were lying to her, since she had no memory of it happening.

PLAYGROUP
For playgroup this week we went to Sabino Canyon. We walked up the canyon for a little over a mile and then settled down by the river to play. Here's Aria with her friends Daphne (center) and Harmony (left).

Aria took a picture of me with my friends: Sarah (Daphne's mom) (center) and Gretchen (Harmony's mom)(left).

 As the morning wore on, Aria had to go potty, so she stripped down behind a rock.  After she finished, she decided that she didn't want to get dressed again.  Later, when I accidentally dropped her underwear in the river, she and Daphne just went without clothes for the rest of morning.  They especially liked to cover their bodies with sand and then lay down flat in the river to wash it off.

On Friday I took the kids to the zoo.  The weather was perfect- probably in the 70's with a slight breeze.  Aria and Zade had fun following the birds around in an enclosed aviary, and then Aria crawled inside this pretend egg and asked me to take her picture.

A squirrel came out and began circling the stroller.  It came right up to our feet and hands, hoping that we might offer a morsel.