Sunday (Aunt Tara, Day 4)

Sunday morning, it was time to scramble some eggs,

 and make them into a yummy frittatta.

 In the afternoon, we thought maybe we'd try to go rollerskating together. 

Maia was pretty excited about that.

 Maia was a little more comfortable with the Fisher-Price skates that don't roll backwards, but wasn't entirely sure she wanted to skate at all for a while. Parker took a little turn on them too, but mostly got skated around the rink in his stroller. THAT made it easier on mommy, who hadn't been on skates in a long, LONG time!

 Maia made some good progress, though, and built her confidence up.

Later, at home, the kids thought it would be fun to do some chair races across the deck.

And, at last, we had to say goodbye, and bring Aunt Tara to the airport. We ALL miss her VERY much!

Aunt Tara (day 3)

A quieter day for Saturday. We went to the mall play place, and Maia made friends with everyone. She's also getting to the age where she really LOVES babies, and wants to help random strangers with theirs.

When Parker is done, he likes to run. So sometimes he needs to be contained.

While waiting for dinner to cook, we played outside. 

Sat in some trees.

Tossed around a football.

And continued to love visiting with Aunt Tara.

Learning

The conversation in my car this morning, en route to daycare:

Maia: Parker, we have to go to school to learn stuff.

Parker: (pointing in another direction) Go dat waeeey!

Maia: Parker, don't you want to go to high school?

Parker: Ya!

Maia: First we have to go to school and then we have to get a lot of

shots, and then we can go to high school like Maura!

Parker: Oh-keeeeey!

(Maura is the big sister of one of Maia's friends, and a fellow

attendee at daycare. Maura is just finishing half-day kindergarten,

and is graduating out of the center to first grade next fall).