Top of the Park

Ann Arbor has an annual summer festival that includes a month of music, movies and other entertainment outside on UM campus: bring your family and a blanket and enjoy the fun! Tonight's movie was "Horton Hears a Who", and since it was also Father's Day and a special occasion we decided to get the girls out of bed to go see it. We weren't sure how Lily would do if she was overtired, but we put her down to bed as usual, and decided to get her up right before putting her in the car.

So we baked cookies, cleaned the house, and packed the car with the stroller, blankets, drinks, her sister and the dog, and Archer went down to wake her up.

"Lily, we're going to go see a movie!"
"In Mama's room?"
"In Lily's room?"
"No, we're going to go for a walk to see a movie."
"We're gonna walk and see a moobie?!"
[Insert squeals an clapping that I heard from down by the car.]

It was a hit. She loved the movie, the cookies, the ride in the dark, etc. A great memory.

Crazy Mommy

Today I walked out of a La Leche League meeting with my toddler - without my nursing infant. Lily and I made it down the hall, out the doors, and 5 feet from the car before I realized I was missing something. Someone. "I forgot my baby!" I wailed from the parking lot. I put my two diaper bags in the car, scooped up the toddler and ran back to the church doors, which were, of course, locked. I pounded on the door for a few minutes until another leaving mom (one smart enough to remember her baby) came through the doors.

My baby remained on the floor of the meeting room, grinning at the other moms and their babies, having no idea of the panic and guilt of her stricken mother. Whew.

The Moochik is On

This morning Lily woke up waayyyy too early, so her daddy changed her diaper then put her back in bed, to follow the rule that her radio alarm (moochik) must go off before she can get up/out of bed for the day.

At 7:30am, I hear:
"Daddy, opeet the door! Opeet the door, Daddy- the moochik is ohn!! Opeet the door, Daddy!"

Her dad can't hear her, so I rouse myself enough to get out of my bed and open the door to her room, say " 'morning Lily' " and climb into her bed.

"I awake, Mama!"
"I see that, Lily."

Now calling to her Daddy as she leaves the room and heads upstairs where he is:
"The moochik eese ohn, Daddy, I awake, eend Mama seepy in mah bed!"