Mother's Day Eve

I like to think of this as Mother's Day weekend -- but apparently it's only just the Sunday. I did get lots of pampering both days. Phil and I went on two separate errand trips so we could get birthday presents for the kids. Pip went with Phil and was told to pick something for Vivie. It was to be an exercise in thinking about her instead of himself. You might guess how this went. Phil said the breakdown happened at Target when he spotted the Little Einstein rocket ship and was denied. Cried all through the aisle. Wailed through the checkout. Pleaded and sobbed in the car ride home. Climbed into my arms lamenting his terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.


(Don't worry, Vivie and I crept out later to get the rocket ship and hid it away for his birthday).

Later that afternoon we did some yard work. Phil showed Pip how to use the new watering wand and he was doing great until it fell and he froze in it's spray. Hence the following pics:





Meanwhile Vivie experimented with eating sand and looking precious. We've fashioned a chair as a gate on the deck to attempt to slow her. Her favorite activity is climbing and she prefers stairs. Up and down, up and down, up and down ... pose!