love songs

Today I spent a lot of time listening to Josh Groban, Frank Sinatra, Michael Bublé, and Andrea Boccelli croon all sorts of fun love songs while I cleaned. Too bad Abe was on another work trip (he had two this week!). I am currently back blogging while he drives home in the middle of a traffic jam. He sounds very tired on the phone, but it sounds like it was potentially a very productive trip.

Mary made this for me after yesterday’s piano practice:

She definitely didn’t make it today because I was not as patient today. I was up a lot last night because Clarissa was teething, and then I was up by 5:15 for yoga. But I have to say, even though I was not super patient today, the girls have both been generally SO AMAZING during their practices lately!! I don’t know if we just hit their routine groove for the year or what, but it’s been dreamy.

Ammon’s admirers

On Wednesday I took Ammon and Clarissa to a new park before going to pick up Mary and Lydia. The girls’ track team was out, and two of our babysitters are on the team. Ammon wandered over and said hi. Pretty soon he had a band of girls oohing and aahing over him as he showed off.

He also made a friend in the playground. He also fell off one of the structures onto his face. Luckily it doesn’t seem like there’s damage, but it was a big fall. I’m starting to wonder if he’s going to suffer from those injuries professional football players get because he keeps hitting his head. I hope not.

Here are more pictures from the park. The weather was glorious.

Ammon playing with his new friend. When he first saw him, Ammon said, “Are you my friend?” This cute boy immediately said, matter-of-factly, “Yes.” And they proceeded to play beautifully together for the next forty minutes.

In the evening we all went on a walk to see the skeletons: