Day Off

So Tim & I took today off and nastily put Rose in daycare so we could have a date day. It was awesome. We did some errands in the morning including upgrading our cellphones to the Verizon Chocolate. So far we love them! A combo MP3 player and phone. What could be better AND its one less gadget to carry around, recharge, worry about etc. And my fun, free ringtone sounds like a Donna Summer song from the 70's. Really, this phone is the greatest!

Then we zoomed to Wingaersheek Beach. It was such a perfect September day - clear skies, 75 degrees and a nice breeze. The water was about 1000 shades of turqouise and looked like the Carribean. There were more people there than we expected - I think due to Rosh Hoshannah. Anyway, we got a huge kick out of watching some kids plunk big huge rocks the size of a bag of flour into the water off these little cliffs and listening to some other big boys talk about how the green things in the water must be aliens. So we were laying on a humungous rock watching the swirling water in a crevasse as the tide came in, and failed to realize that the water was actually getting higher everywhere on the beach and that we were now stranded on said humongous rock. Hmmm. I just plunged in and the water was up to my knees. Did Tim warn me first that I might want to roll my pants up? Yep. Did I think I wouldn't need to? Yep. Should I have rolled my pants up? Yep. After witnessing this, Tim rolled his pants up over his knees and plotted the best route to a dry landing. However, his sunglasses messed up his depth perception so he was perched on a boulder the size of about 5 basketballs combined together for quite a while trying to decide what to do next. Finally he just decided to take the plunge and the water only came up mid-shin so it was much ado over the proverbial nothing.

It was very kind of Rose to give Tim & I this day together as its been a very long while since we did anything just the two of us. We even picked her up early from daycare and she came home and just walked and walked and walked. I think it might be safe to put her in a dress again as the danger of getting rugburn on her lower legs while crawling in shorts or dresses seems to be a thing of the past. You go Rose!

Checking In

My apologies to my reader that there has been a dearth of entries of late. Don't ask me what I've been doing instead because I couldn't even begin to tell you....and that's not being mysterious or evasive, its just being truthful. Our days consist of work and then spending a little time with Rose and then spending a little time with each other. And the Red Sox...always the Red Sox. However it could be some horrendo activity instead so I really should just quit the griping.

Rose is growing like crazy and is on all table food which is so great. The only drawback is that she is now just about walking independently so she gets SO tired by the end of the day that she doesn't want to put a lot of energy into eating. So she doesn't eat enough and is waking up overnight again. Rats! My new obsession is baby friendly protein and getting a decent amount into her before she goes to bed. Tonight she ate TWO yo-baby yogurts and some cheese, some crackers and some puffs. And probably some other stuff too but I don't remember what else. She really has quite a smorgasbord offered to her every day and she eats well, just not enough at night. But we will prevail!