Various Things from Friday

On Thursday, Kate got what appears to be a mosquito bite on her eyelid. That evening, it was a little red and raised, and she kept scratching at it. (She even knows not to scratch, due to previous bites and Tanna's teaching her to say "No scratch!") Anyway, when she woke up on Friday, it was very swollen. Tanna took a picture of it and said to watch it. If it got any worse, I was going to take her to the doctor. Fortunately, it looked a lot better after her nap--and when she woke up this morning, she was looking back to normal. This is the second mosquito bite she's gotten around her eye (where you can't really apply bug spray). Any suggestions?



Friday morning, we met Di and Jamie at the history center. It wasn't the best outing. We walked all the way through the main building only to discover that you can't get to the farm area (where the animals are) because of construction. We then ask how to get there, and then we trekked all the way around the property (down by the parking garage, by the Swan House and back around to the farm). With two 2--year-olds. In Atlanta heat and humidity (which both Di and I had underestimated that morning). Anyway, when we got there, there were no animals out. Ugh. So then we walked back around to the front building and left. That time, we just walked out by the street. Oh well, at least we didn't have to pay because we got in with our membership.



In other news, the Halloween clothing has started to make an appearance. I got out some of our Halloween things from last year. The shirt in this picture is size 24 months--Kate wore it last year, and it is almost too short--but she got at least one more wear out of it. Oh, I also braided her hair for the first time (to wear out in public). Kate's hair is still very thin and hard to "pleat" (as my mother would say), but I thought it turned out pretty cute.

Kate is loving the plastic pumpkin bucket she got at Jasper's birthday party last year. I got it out, and told her it was last year's pumpkin. So now she keeps calling it "last year's pumpkin." She is really enjoying carrying it around and filling it with various items from around the house.



Speaking of pumpkins, I also finally opened some Halloween-themed squirt toys that Aunt Robin got for Kate last year. My favorite is the owl, of course, but Kate is quite enamored with this jack-o'-lantern, which she loves to toss up (just barely) and catch in her hands. She was calling it an orange ball, so I told her it was a pumpkin. Now she calls it "pumpkin patch." We think she got that from the Charlie Brown/Peanuts Halloween DVD, which is one of her regulars. (She watches the Peanuts collection throughout the year.)

Anyway, those are some random tidbits from our neck of the woods. Have a great day!