O'Malley playground

Saturday morning we took a bike ride to O'Malley playground. One of the few places we can comfortably bike to and back from home.

Small picnic to charge up for the ride home.

Breakfast at South

To start off our awesome weekend, we had breakfast together at the new restaurant 'South'.

We drove separately, because Andy was going to work afterwards, I gave him a hug outside the car and when I got in the car Van said, "Mom Esther was just crying"

Esther seemed pretty happy so I said, "oh really? why?"

Van, "She was crying, because that was so beautiful."

Nails by Esther

Come by to have yours done.

Babies

Esther loves babies more than any other toddler I've ever seen.
We had a baby visit last night, she would bounce him in the bouncy chair, insist on holding him ('my turn, my turn'), she wanted to wrap him in a blanket, and change his diaper. She would even talkto him in a falsetto voice.
But the best part was after she saw the mom breastfeeding. I got to hold the baby for a while after that and she chased me around with her dress above collarbone, holding her nipple out to the baby and crying that I wouldn't let her 'feed' him.

Up all night

Esther has not been sleeping well lately. She used to be the best sleeper 12-13 hours a night, now we're luckily if we get 9.

I don't remember taking this picture, but I found it on my phone, either an early morning or a late night.

Raspberries

Last night we went over to Kyle's house for dinner. Kyle and Thomas are in town for just about one more week before they head back to the remote village of Teller for another season of teaching.

Van biked, he was the first to arrive.
Andy walked, carrying a bowl of line and cilantro rice to go with the salmon Kyle and Thomas were preparing.
I walked, carrying a baking sheet of fresh chocolate chip cookies.
Esther biked and cried, because she couldn't eat the cookies I was carrying.

I distracted her from the cookies by picking raspberries off the bushes on the sides of the road and feeding them to her.

Pretty soon the distraction was too effective and she had to stop and eat some herself.

Lotion application

Taking advantage of Esther's lotion addiction.