"Chicken"

Labor day started out nice and relaxing. We just hung out in the living room as a family in the morning until A went down for her first nap. I really enjoyed watching Allan and A play together. A is really getting into wrestling and has started trying to get Allan. It is the funniest and cutest thing to watch. She is always full of squeals and giggles when they wrestle.

Allan got all of our doors hung up and the door knobs put back on! I have been celebrating all week! It is so nice to have doors and door knobs again!

That night we went to the park and played. A loves to play in the wood chips and climb up and down the steps of the play set. We took her down a slide, and she burst into tears. She really hates slides. I went down one a little later, and she burst into tears again. After that we decided we'd just stay away from the slides. There is another part of the playground that has swings, teeter totters, and merri-go-rounds. We headed over that way and decided to try the teeter totter. A HATED it. It really scared her. And, it didn't help that she had seen the swings and was extremely determined to go over to them. We headed over, and she sat contentedly in the swing for the rest of the evening.

Little A made her first craft. There is a craft at story time every week. I tried to do it once before and she had no interest in it. She still has no interest in it, but while she was eating the cheese stick the librarians had given all of the children I traced her hand and made the craft. It was rough going since she hates to have her hands touched, but we did it!

We played with some friends at the park after story time too. She had a lot of fun and was completely exhausted when we got home.

A has discovered a new game. She likes to throw the couch pillows on the floor, walk over to them and face plant into them! Ha! Then she likes Allan or I to grab the other pillow and make a little A sandwich (squeeze her in between the two pillows). She thinks this is the best game ever invented. We have played it several times a day every day this week. If we are busy doing something else she will play it by herself (minus the sandwich part). It's been nice because it helped her start playing by herself a little bit again. And it's just super fun to hear her squeal and giggle. Now whenever she sees the pillows she bursts into giggles.

Allan and I were making dinner one evening. While I was stirring something on the stove she got into the pasta, found the macaroni, pulled it out and screamed with delight. She then tried to give it to Allan and I until it was time to eat. This girl LOVES her macaroni.

Our microwave died this week so we headed out to the nearest city to get a new one. While we were there we went to Panda Express to eat lunch. We went there last week too and little A fell in love with their Orange Chicken. When we pulled up she got super excited and started waving her arms and legs all around. Then she yelled "Chicken!" Ha!

Last week all she would eat was the orange chicken. She refused to eat anything else. This week though she discovered the chow mein. She was so excited about the noodles that she would grab a hand full in both hands, squeal and wave it all around, and then stuff the handfuls in her mouth! She made a pretty big mess. We left them a nice tip.

We had looked online to make sure someone in the city would have a microwave the size we needed, and it said that Home Depot had one, unfortunately when we got there, they didn't. We ended up buying one at Walmart and got home to find that it was .2 inches too big. So we called around that night and found one in another nearby city and went to get it the next day. Allan dropped me off at Hobby Lobby and took A with him to run the errands. While they were shopping A walked through the stores saying "Mom. Mom. Mom" over and over again while looking for me. She was SO happy when she finally found me in Hobby Lobby, she refused to let go of my hand. She makes me feel really good about myself. :)

I braided A's hair for the first time. It's been long enough for a long time, but she is so wiggly, and I am so bad at braiding hair, that it has never worked out before. However, we have been watching the Winnie the Pooh numbers and letters episodes while I do her hair in the morning. This keeps her still long enough for me to get her hair up. She was so enthralled with the counting that I decided to try a braid. It took me forever, but I finally got it. 

Allan finally got to get his garage organized. He has been wanting to do this since before we moved into the house. ;)  For our date this week we went out and organized everything. It looks really good and now we can see what we've got and what we are going to need. We wrote a nice Christmas list while we were in there too, ha!

Today in church little A was playing with someone behind us. She would snuggle into my shoulder, then peek up, and if the person was paying attention she would grab my hair and hold it up to show it to them. Funny girl.

I taught my Valiant 8 class for the first time today. There was one boy. Poor guy. The first thing he said to me was "Hi. You look nice." We had fun and he enjoyed some of the lesson, but that class time was FOREVER. A lesson goes by really fast when there is only one little 8 year old boy. We played almost 20 minutes of hangman.  Hopefully the girls will be there next week.