We had a fun day downtown yesterday. Jake and I both felt completely exhausted afterward, for some reason...we both thoroughly enjoy EVERY moment with Carmen, and we were just extra tired yesterday from our vacation and from the 30 kids that are at my library program on Mondays!
Jake got out the Pop Beads right away and Carmen just loves them. What I love most about playing side by side with children is the conversations that stem from their free minds. It's not just *play*...it's deep, enlightening conversations...often times incredibly silly, too.
Carmen made this dog (above) with a VERY long tail.
These are photos from the coffee shop (we did our usual route of the library and then to the coffee shop). Carmen LOVED looking at herself in my camera and kept wanting me to take photos of her *normal face* and then her *cream cheese mustache face*.
Carmen took this photo of Jake and the one (below) of herself.
After walking around downtown more...the Famer's Market, the music store, Razzle Dazzle, the art store...we went back to Da'Vida and got out "sticks and glue"! Carmen was SO excited to build with sticks and glue...and she kept saying, "I'm going to make something REALLY REALLY COOL!!!" or "REALLY REALLY WEIRD!"
When we were cleaning up, we kept inventing other games with the sticks that were belly-laughing fun...and we ended our time together with me drawing *Bubby* (her bunny) on several of the popsicle sticks!
Jake and I, at dinner, told Sam and Dave that out of all of the people we know on this planet, Carmen is one of the top people that we would CHOOSE to spend time with.
All is well.
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