Of The Orient

The Rainbow Connection

4 Seconds A Day: March 2015

maybe our most boring month yet

Ready To Audition

Went to see the Cadets send-off. I can get away with not going to anything else now this year. Put in my due. Yuula liked it tho.... 

She was ready to audition

Finally got some girls together

Meeting ol' Katie

Drooling In The Drizzle

It's her version of Singing in the Rain

ok, sorry

Yu Two Today

We didn't really have any plans for Yuula' birthday. We knew we'd have Grandma and Grandpa for breakfast, Aunt Danielle sometime around lunch and somehow we convinced ourselves that it was Tuesday and we had a CSA pickup. We kinda based the day around it. We wanted to take Yuula to see some animals but the best place was an hour north and closed at 6. Plus rain was forecast for 4pm and we had to pickup CSA between 3 and 7, an hour south. The timeline wasn't working out and suddenly Laura brought up Country Junction and a deal was struck. Maybe because it's the only place outside of Lancaster to get Jake & Amos corn salsa and we just ran out last night. Happy Birthday Yuula! You're getting Amish corn salsa. Dani arrived and we went.

The girls fed ducks. She loved it.

She sprinkled corn on top of goats. She loved that.

She pointed and yelped at chickens. Loved.

Test drove their various vehicles.

Loving.

The girls competed in a hula hoop contest. I won.

Photo op with a dragon.

She saw puppies and fish, bunnies and thought ferrets were hilarious. Who doesn't? We rocketed back towards the farm only to realize about 100 yards from the entrance that it was in fact Monday and our pickup was tomorrow. We laughed. Then decided to go pickup some beer. Happy birthday Yuula. You're going to watch us get drunk.

Yuula had communicated to us (we think) that she wanted pizza for dinner. Maybe we had a preconceived notion. But we thought it'd be fun to let her make her own pizza, get her hands dirty. It was and she did.

Yes more cheese made it onto the floor than the pies but hey, she loved singing "sprinkle sprinkle sprinkle".

Gifts were displayed much to her delight.

She's still not sure about the whole candle in the cake thing.

She couldn't wait to test out her new umbrella. Good thing it was raining.

She took right to destroying her new coloring books.

And she really took to the magnadoodle, a toy right in her wheelhouse since she can fill up a page faster than we can cut down the trees, this will probably save the rainforest.

We also got her a starter dollhouse (assembly required) and aunt Danielle made her a nice wooly poncho for the quickly upcoming cold and some awesome new books that she then read to her during some aunty cuddle time while downing her night night milk. Then she went right to bed as we snapped this photo at 9:50pm, exactly two years after she was born.

Then Laura cried...

Discovering The Disneys

We went out last night in search of Yuula's birthday gift, having no plan or idea or even a genre to focus on. Stuffed animals, dolls, games, toys, should we just buy her used car and be done with it? The hunt was on.

We hit the mall, begrudgingly, and one of the things she got excited about was the Disney Store. I don't think she's ever been, but she has been replacing some of her previously scheduled Caillou time with that hotdog dance show. So I think she may be moving on. Although she does still point to the television and call it "Caillou Mickey Mouse".

We wandered over to Toys 'R' Us. She picks up souvenirs everywhere she goes. She had the whole store thinking it was raining outside. I hear umbrella sales there went thru the roof. But she knows her way around that place somehow. She was even mistaken as an employee a couple times.

We did come across some good gift ideas, and made out with a few classic nuggets. We were stealthy tho. She don't know nothing, and hopefully she digs them. Time will tell. But we couldn't make it out without that umbrella, rain or no.

The Discovery Of Shelter

Do you remember the first time you experienced the effect an umbrella has on falling rain?