Good News & Bad News

I have good news and bad news.  Strangely enough, it's the same news:  Daniel loves our new babysitter, Ms. Marcy.  I started back to work at the beginning of April - well, I started working about three hours per day on MWF.  Ms. Marcy comes to our house and watches Daniel and Catherine on these days.

The good news is that Daniel loves playing with Ms. Marcy.  She's a theater major and has such a great imagination.  She and Daniel always go to some amazing places while I'm gone - Jupiter, the rainforest, even jail once!

The bad news is that Daniel loves our babysitter so much that he threw a great, big tantrum the other morning when I told him that I didn't have to go to work.  During this tantrum, he yelled such fun things as "Mommy, you go to work right now!"

Easter

We celebrated Easter in Lubbock with Abuelo, Abuela, and Uncle Luis. Daniel had a lot of fun as the Easter bunny sent him on a "treasure hunt" to find his basket. He liked looking for the clues so much that I don't think he realized the basket was the end-goal. He was throwing out the things in the Easter basket, just looking for another clue! The Easter bunny brought him several good things, but his favorite has been a pack of plastic bugs. We've been playing a lot of "bugs" this week. He also received a kite, and David enjoyed showing him how to use it a few days ago. Daniel had more fun with the cascarones this year and even cracked one or two on people's heads. He still preferred to stomp on them or throw them at the ground though.

Grandparent Week

My parents came to visit a few weeks ago (3/28-3/31), and then we went to Lubbock to see David's parents right after they left (3/31-4/1), so we had a good, solid 5 days worth of spoiling (both us and the kids). During my parents' visit, we snuck in a trip to the Abilene zoo as well as a trip to Dairy Queen for mint Oreo blizzards. Plus there was plenty of cars/trucks/trains, playing outside, and reading of books. During our trip to Lubbock, Daniel experienced his first rodeo. He loved seeing everything, though I think he liked wearing his cowboy hat and bandana the best! I don't have any pics from the rodeo - I still need to get those from my in-laws, but here are a few pics from my parents' visit.

Food Knowledge

Daniel frequently asks questions about where food comes from. For example, he'll ask, "What do you have to kill to get bacon?" We encourage him to ask these questions because we'd like him to have more food knowledge than your typical fast-food raised kid.

Anyway, the other day David was drinking a glass of Yellow Tail wine. He had the bottle sitting out, and there's a picture of a kangaroo on the outside. Daniel looked at it and said, "Daddy, you're drinking wine. You have to kill a kangaroo to get wine!"