let's go go GO!

After writing about such a fun event as a birthday, the everyday stuff seems too ordinary to blog. How can Miles just being his goofy, cute self compare with cupcake smashed up his nose? It may be mundane but such is life. Wait, who am I kidding?

Mundane? HA! Farthest thing from it!

If I felt lazy and didn't walk all summer in the heat, Miles is helping me make up those missed steps now. He is all over the place. Here and there, here and there. I can follow his little path of disaster from the toy baskets to the book shelf to the cabinet of canned food.

I can also audibly follow him: the tinkle of piano keys, the rat-a-tat of the drum, and various toys vocalizing "hi I'm farmer Tad," "Lightning is ready", "purple cow," and a cacophony of barnyard noises. Thankfully the house is childproofed enough so everything is his or I don't care if he messes with it. He's usually in the food cabinet, pulling out his snack-size peaches and mandarin oranges. He carried around some oranges for about 30 minutes yesterday.


I know that two occurrences don't make a trend, but I suspect that the morning nap is starting to go away. While he's still ready to crash at 8:30am after breakfast and some wandering, that nap has only lasted an hour the past few days. Barely enough time for me to eat, shower, dress and e-mail! (and do laundry and dishes and pick-up and sweep...) Today since he was up we went to the park behind dad's office. It used to be run down about 10 years ago, but they've cleaned it up and there are great bike paths and tennis courts. [The one bad area is the stream running beside it with a prominent "Avoid Physical Contact" posted. Too many SSOs, I guess.] The play area is really cool. There are two big jungle gym things that look like a pirate ship and a castle. So we did some swinging and some sliding and some general walking around. Then off to a messy lunch with dad at Moe's! Yum!