Last night at the Bowl :o(

Sorry I have been a slacker lately with writing the blog, the past few nights both Craig and I have been so sleepy we could not manage staying awake to write.

So here is an update from the last couple days... Wednesday evening we had a wonderful dinner with our neighbors down the street, we ordered Nan Cafe and enjoyed a delicious dinner. Nico is getting so big, it was fun to have him sitting at the table with us. Kylie insisted on being told "one day" stories the entire meal, which is fine when we are home, but makes it very hard when we are trying to have dinner conversation with our friends (one of the many challenges I am trying to find a good solution to). Thursday we headed down to story time, while Craig took a nice bike ride up to Oak Glen. We ran in to the family that might be moving in to the corner house, they were looking at another house on Eureka, we really hope they move in somewhere close, we have totally fallen in love with their sweet family and can't wait to call them neighbors :o) That afternoon I went to get my hair cut. It has been months and I needed a change. I decided to cut it short again. It is harder to do, and I actually have to do it everyday (which I don't know that I have time for), but I was sick of putting it in a little pony tail everyday, so we will see how it goes. It is defiantly to short for a pony tail now, so I will either have to do it, or invest in many more hats :o) That evening we invited Matt and Undi over for dinner. It was so fun to have another big family dinner, they more time we spend with our wonderful friends, the more I wish we lived in a huge house all together, or some type of commune :o)

Today Kylie woke up in a very good mood (which has not been the case the past couple days). She was eager to get dressed, eat breakfast and play play play. It might have helped that Cooper was sleeping for some of the morning so it was just her and I, but even once he woke up she was happy and eager to see him and help me with him. We headed to a mommy group where we got to learn about infant massage. I am really hoping I can find time to do some massage with Cooper, I never did a ton with Kylie, but I am feeling like it would be good focused one-on-one time for he and I. At the end the of the group Kylie was starting to act up, she then told me she was tired and wanted to go home and take a nap, ok. So we came straight home and straight to bed, she was asleep 20 min later and didn't wake up (besides once to nurse) until 3:45ish (3.5 hours later). Needless to say I got a lot done this afternoon, laundry and photos were the top priority. Cooper slept for about 2 hours with Kylie (I think they both nap better when they nap together) then he had wonderful awake time, smiling and cooing while I folded clothes. Changed his diaper, fed him and he was back to sleep, wow. Once they were both up and fed we decided to start a fun project...Kylie has been sleeping in the guest room, so we decided that we should just make it her room. It has been much harder for me having her in another room, getting up and nursing her then getting back to our bed is SO hard, but she cries and says she wants to stay in her bed and not ours (which is a good thing, I guess). It's just ironic, we kept her in bed with us until she was two, when she decided she wanted to sleep in her own little pony couch. Now she has moved herself in to her own room and in to a bigger bed and is so happy to have her own space. I feel like parents work so hard to get their kids to sleep in their own bed and want to be in their own space and now we have a daughter who is choosing it and I still wish she was in bed with us, go figure :o) So anyway we broke down the crib (we never use it anyway) and started moving all of Kylie's toys in to her new room. I am just hoping she enjoys playing in there as much as she like sleeping there. And I also hope that whatever scared her in the back room, doesn't end up scaring her in her new room, or who knows, she might want to start sleeping upstairs!

I took both kids down to the bowl by myself tonight. Craig got stuck at work late, Melissa was working and my parents are out of town. It actually went well. I ordered pizza to be delivered, since we were working on the bedrooms and not the kitchen all afternoon. Once it arrived we headed down to enjoy the symphony. It was the perfect evening, the temperature was amazing and the bowl was packed. Craig joined us at intermission and we stayed until the fireworks a the very end. We had been told that there would be fireworks and although Kylie kept talking excitedly about them, she would also say she was scared of them. So we told her that we would leave before the fireworks started and maybe watch them from Ama and Papa's house. When the show was coming to an end, they started to play the final song and just seconds in to the song the fireworks started. It was timed to go with the song, oops, Kylie was not so happy about that. Craig took her across the street to the Lincoln Shrine and they watched form there while I get a little bit on video knowing that we would need the video as part of our debriefing that would be happening over the next couple days. In the end she actually did really well, they were not very loud ans as long as she was being held she was good. We told "the firework story" a handful of times on the way home and she watched the video a couple times. I'm sure we will talk about it more tomorrow :o) I am so sad the bowl season is over, it is such a wonderful part of the summer, we are already looking forward to next year.

Tomorrow we will have a family day at home and I will be enjoying rearranging everything! yay!
-Natalie

We walked through an open house on wednesday at the house with the little rocking chair. Kylie was so excited to have a chance to sit on it, she talks about that chair every time we walk by. Ellie Jane is sitting next to her, she is one of the 4 girls in the family that we hope moves in on the corner.

New haircut, ahhhh.

Of course we had to visit Goldie, but only after we stopped to ride Tommy. We were proud of ourselves, we were able to name all 6 ponys, Tommy, Patrick, Missy, Cheyenne, Pinto and Pepper! 

 Fireworks at the Bowl!