Lincoln at Work

Lincoln came to work with me today ... and I just love when I get to spend the whole day with him ... it is only better when I get to spend the whole day with both kids ...

He is such a good kid ... hardly cried ... hangs out in his stroller ... smiles a lot ... you wouldn't even know he was there most of the time ... I'm lucky that I can bring them in when I need ... and it is nice for me getting the extra time ...

Email blogging

So I have set up my blog to accept email posts ... which means I could very well keep up with everything much better ... in fact this weekend I figured out lots of stuff that should keep my goals in the forefront ...

I resigned up for Jott.com ... I used it all the time when it was a free service to send myself email reminders of things I wanted to do ... it was great in the car during traffic to call in and set up all the reminders ... well now it is a pay service and I figured out the 3 something a month was worth it ... not only can I rattle off all the things I want to remember to do ... I can add things to my google calendar by calling into jott and I can even change my Facebook status ... pretty cool ...

I also figured out how to snap a photo on my phone and upload it right to facebook ... which is a great feature ... the more time I take to figure out how all my technology can work for me the more efficient I am becoming ...

Girls Afternoon

This afternoon Schuyler and I decided to have an afternoon just us ... so we headed to Barnes & Noble ... first we had a coffee (well chocolate milk for Curly Top) and sat and talked ... then we explored the store ...

I found a journal called "Listography Your Life In Lists" created by Lisa Nola and Illustrated by Nathaniel Russell that is just awesome ... it is a journal that helps you create kind of a biography all through creating lists ... and since I so love creating lists I thought it would be quite a fun project that would give me force me to take moments for myself ...

After I finished in the journal section ... or more like when I couldn't take hearing Skye say, "come on mommy ... come oooonnnnnnn ... lets go  up the sclator ... come on come on mommy" anymore we headed upstairs to the kids section ...

She checked out the train first but there were a bunch of people over there so she asked if we could get some books and read on the other side ... once she saw the stage though reading took a back seat ... I found myself a seat and she got up and put on a dance show for me ... it was FANTASTIC ...

Once she noticed the Eloise cut out she wanted her photo taken ...

Then she said, "Wait I want to stand just like Eloise. Take another one please." ...

After dancing around with some other kids we headed to the train table where she could stay all day long ...

I was so proud of her ... while we were at the store she asked to use the bathroom twice and did a great job ...

Once we paid for our stuff and got in the car she said, "Mommy I had a great day." ... I got all teary ... she just says the sweetest stuff and she has no idea how much it means to me ... every moment I spend with her is fantastic ...

Amazing Spider

This morning I saw the most amazing spider web in our backyard I thought it warranted a photo ... probably have to click to enlarge to really see it ... it just looked like it was suspended in mid air ...

Stop, Drop & Sleep

Most nights Skye stays up for WAY too long after she goes off to bed ... the bonus for us is she usually falls asleep within a split second when she is finally ready ... the great part is the way she crashes when she sleeps we get some pretty funny photos out of it ... :)

Bumbo

Lincoln got to sit in his bumbo today and he seemed to really like it ... I of course loved it because I can finally take photos of him in the sitting position ... Skye thought it was great being able to interact with him ... and they are all just so dang cute ...

Tuna Fishing

Yesterday David left at 1 in the morning to head to Ocean City Maryland to do some tuna fishing with several of his friends ... they had been looking forward to it for ages that he couldn't even snooze a bit before leaving ...

The drive was long but the excitement fueled them all ... by the time they got there they were ready to catch some big fish and set sail at quarter to 5 ... they sped out about 40 miles from shore ... David couldn't believe the size of the waves, some even coming up on deck and how fast the boat could go ...

The early morning wake up call ... the fresh air ... the speed of the boat ... the excitement to catch fish all caught up with most of the group ... naps were plentifully and there was even a bit of sea sickness ... David said he felt a bit queasy but did alright ... and slept like a log during his nap ...

They caught 1 tuna ... 2 mahi-mahi ... and 1 wahoo which is what David caught ... their boat caught the most that day ... he was so excited about all the fish ... unfortunately as they were getting off the boat the 1st mate dropped one of the mahi-mahi into the water and lost it ... kind of a bummer ... but they still had plenty of fish for the 5 of them ...

There is a "fish cam" at the doc that David had been watching for days before hand to see what people brought in ... so we had it on throughout the day ... I knew he wouldn't be in till late afternoon/early evening but checked it every once in a while ... and as I sat down to give Lincoln a bottle at 5:30 I suddenly saw their group and started calling up to Skye, "Daddy is on the fish cam ... Daddy and Norbert and Aric are on the fish cam come see" ... I was able to grab the 2 screen shots of them bringing in their fish ... it was just so cool we caught them on cam ...

David didn't get home until about 22 hours after he left and he was just exhausted ... so no fish for dinner last night ... but tonight he made the most gorgeous plates ... the tuna steaks tasted like fillet Mignon ... it was amazing ... I can't wait till we get the rest of it ...

Now Skye wants to go fishing with her daddy ... I am thinking they need to start off going to a lake or the Potomac ... but she so wants to spend the day fishing with her daddy ...