4/19-4/25: Happy Birthday Grandma Droste

by margaretyagan on May 13, 2010

The hungry caterpillar is so silly!

I had a fun Monday with Dad, Julie, and Nana. We went to the park for almost the entire morning and then we came back home and Nana had made me a delicious lunch of turkey kebabs and baked apples. I took a really long nap and then had a fun dinner with Dad and Grandpa was in an especially good mood! He was very excited to feed me a taco and then even got on the floor and helped me feed Semekeh.

I got up with Dad on Tuesday and we got ready to go to school. Before taking off for school, I got to have some waffles as a snack:

We got pretty lucky with traffic and Dad got to see my new room at school. I was a little sad when he left, but he made a little bed for me up in the climber and I rested a bit until I was ready to join my friends for breakfast. I had a good day at school and was especially happy when Dad came to pick me up. He was especially surprised to see that I was wearing institutional clothing (because my clothes were dirty!).

Traffic was a little worse on the way home, but we got home in time to be on my usual bedtime schedule.

On Wednesday I got up with Dad and was happy to see that it was a beautiful day outside. I was excited for Julie to get here, so I gave my outside voice a little workout:

Nana was happy to get here and head to the park for two and a half hours. I had a great time playing and even got to have a picnic lunch. I took a pretty short nap (just over an hour) and then had fun with Nana until Dad and his colleague Scott came back from their meetings. Scott was really nice and made me laugh. I had dinner and then went to bed.

The highlight of my day on Thursday was that another of Dad’s friends, Brendan, visited us in the evening. He has a daughter about my age and he even did a somersault with me down in the office.

Friday was great because Mom came home from her trip! Julie came for a couple hours and then Dad and I hung out as we waited for Mom:

Then we walked up to the train station and met Mom.

I was so excited to see her! Mom hung out with me all day and I had a really fun time.

On Saturday moning we went to Dominick’s with Mom and then, instead of Stanley’s, Whole Foods, and soccer practice, we went to the Field Museum to see The Mermaid Theater perform Eric Carle’s favorites. It was pretty cool to see some of my favorite characters in real life, but I wasn’t all that impressed.

We stopped by Whole Foods on our way home, then I ate lunch and went to bed. Pretty much as soon as I got up, Dad and I headed out to meet Nana and Grandpa who were having a birthday dinner for Dad at Santorinis.