A Day in the Life

Some friends and I thought it would be fun to photo-document a typical day in our lives. Here's our day yesterday, the last Friday of summer before Charlotte starts preschool again.

Sarah and I woke up in time to see Daddy off to work.


She and I had some good playtime together while we waited for Charlotte to get up.

"Pick me up, pwease."


Diapers on the head are sooo fun.


We read a book together.


Then we went upstairs to see if Charlotte was up yet.


She wasn't. So Sarah busied herself with the wipes.


Then it was time for breakfast for Sarah. Yummy Scrambled Eggs!


We thought maybe we heard something upstairs.

We did! We did! Charlotte's up!

Charlotte is a slow waker-upper. She usually likes to watch a TV show first thing.


Soon she was ready for breakfast. Sarah tried to hone in on it.



Oops! A chocolate milk accident. Have to change clothes.


Then it's off to the store. Every time we leave the house, the girls have to "pick a flower" (the horticulturists reading this are aghast!).


Our destination this day.


When we go to Walmart Charlotte always wants to go in the "Food Center" entrance and not the "Low Prices" entrance. Fine, whatever, but I needed to go to the other side of the store to get some skin care stuff. She's crying the whole time we're walking through saying she wants to go to the Food Center. This kills me. It's just so unexpected for a little kid.

We turn into an aisle, there's a female customer there, and thru her tears Charlotte says, "Mommyyyyy, I can't say hi to that lady!" Me and the lady just burst out laughing. The woman says, You don't have to say hi to me, then. And then I say something to her and Charlotte says, "You can't talk to her either." Okay, then, I won't.

Finally, we were done and got caught in the rain on the way out of the store.


Before you know it's time for lunch! Today being Friday means Hot Dogs!!



Then an afternoon of playing.

Charlotte wearing her "cape"


Sarah playing Pizza Party


Popsicle snacks



Reading a book


Ball pit wrestling match


I've been trying to exercise daily. There are challenges.


Someone gave us a bunch of their old books, so we headed up to Sarah's room to sort through them.


The girls played Connect Four in the crib.


Sarah tried on shoes


Charlotte rested


For whatever reason, they wanted to take a bath in the afternoon, before dinner.


Daddy came home and trimmed his beard.


They refused to get dressed for dinner. So Daddy played along (he was not fully nude - whew!)


Sarah went to bed early (thanks to not napping). No picture of that - didn't want to disrupt the slumber. Charlotte had a popcorn snack before heading up to bed.


Whew! The day was done!