"I'm so glad when Daddy comes home..."

I think this has become our theme song . With Cory gone all week long for many weeks to come, with an occasional weekend or either Saturday or Sunday off, we surely do miss the man.

SO...this week, the girls and I went to the Saginaw Children's zoo with Kristy Brown and her kids, and Tara Strong and her kids. It was a fun outing, and Natalie especially liked the tiny monkeys. (Seriously...they were tiny...like as big as my hand.) We went to the trails at Genesys most mornings so I could run, because honestly, I've been more in the mood to run outside than inside, with all this nice weather happening. We did lots of fun things this week, but without a doubt, the favorite activities of the week were on the weekend...simply because Daddy was home.

Playing soccer in the backyard


Natalie running in the backyard...

...more running...

...and now resting with Abi after all the running...

...and now being coerced into pulling weeds with Daddy...
(actually she loved this, and there was zero coercion involved)

"Happy" Abi

"Nut-filled-squirrel-cheeks" Abi

Earlier in the week, sans make-up, Daddy-less, and practicing our alphabet on the fridge


Abi loves to blow raspberries...at the exact moment I put a spoonful of food in her mouth. I end up scraping most of whatever she's eating off of her face, and trying to feed it to her again, only to have her spit it all over herself, the chair, the table, the wall, the floor, and of course, me. After she launches her various trajectories of baby food, she giggles in obvious delight...and do I detect a hint of diabolism? It takes a long time to actually get all the food where it's supposed to be. She thinks this is hilarious. Natalie thinks this is hilarious. I think this is frustrating...and hilarious.
(And no...I did not strategically place that food on her face...she did that on her own.)