Moments

When Mitchell and I go to the park Mitchell comes back fairly clean. When Mitchell and Daddy go to the park, he comes back looking like this. Notice the makings of a "beard" of sorts and the total dinginess of the yellow and white. Makes me realize I am a total girl when it comes to rough housing at the park, and maybe that's a good thing. :)

Today has not bee the best of days for me. I've been feeling completely overwhelmed with everything on my plate and feeling like I'm missing out on special moments with Mitchell because I have to study, or work on crafts projects for MOPS. God, obviously, knew this and gave me one of those special moments tonight. While Daddy was watching "Big" George (since Curious George totally rules the TV at our house) Mitchell climbed in his toy box for some fun throwing toys out. I grabbed the camera to capture the moment.

When I got close to the toybox Mitchell hugged my legs and tried to drag me in saying, "Mommy, Mommy." I asked him if he wanted me to sit in there with him and he nodded his head and said yes. Here he is trying to push me down into the toybox.

So I climbed in and yelled for Matthew to pause Big George (thank goodness for DVR) and come get a picture and then to come get me out! I quickly realized that there was no way I was getting out on my own. You can also tell I wasn't having a good day because I'm wearing one of my pregnancy shirts, hence the bagginess of the shirt. Matthew wasn't to thrilled because my foray into the toybox broke the bottom. But honestly, not that bad!!!

Of course the dachshund diva could not be left out.



On another note....

I've been trying to get a decent picture of this guy (or one of his friends) for months! He's real skittish and either Mitchell announces our arrival to soon or the ducks quack and freak him out. But today I was able to sneak away and grab this shot of the egret. I'm going to make a scrapbook page of all the wildlife that can be found at our local park and now I have them all captured on film!!