That's better - as you're listening, just change the word "California" to "Florida" in your mind and we should be all set. Now, where was I? Oh yeah, so last week I was swamped doing all the stuff that I needed to do in order to not be around this week, which made for a few rather hectic days. Long story short - I got the absolute minimum necessary done, as one would expect - so here I am in sunny Florida (Lauderdale by the Sea to be exact - see map) staying with Dad and Fredi and having a fine time.
Of course my life was blessed this past weekend with a nice visit from our two favorite little people and even though we didn't sleep very much (and Daddy caught a wicked head cold from little miss Miranda - a cold that I'm still recovering from) we had a lot of fun.
The big adventure this weekend was our trip to K.B. Toys on 86th Street. We needed to get out at least for a little while on Saturday afternoon and the weather cooperated by warming up a bit, so we piled in the stroller and took a walk. Daddy explained to Zach and Miranda that they could each pick out one toy and only one, and that if they were good about this we could do it again in the future.
They were sooooo good! When we got there, Zach got out and was eyeing up the Thomas train sets, but Daddy reminded him that he already has one at Mommy's house, which he seemed to understand. He picked out a Geotrax train set instead, which turned out to be a pretty good choice, and got right back in the stroller clutching the box.
Miranda gravitated towards the dolls and much to Daddy's surprise picked out a Barbie (City Styles Barbie - her first). City Styles Barbie came with shoes and a hair brush, but to Miranda it was just "red Barbie". She also wanted "blue Barbie" (Barbie Fairytopia Magic of the Rainbow w/ necklace) which Daddy allowed so that each kid got the same dollar value of loot. We paid for our toys and headed back to Daddy's house to play with our new things.
It was a good thing that we had some fresh toys, as it was a long night. Must have been a full moon or something, because Zach (who went to bed nicely at 9pm) got up at 3am full of vip, vigor and vim. Miranda had only gone to sleep at 11:30 due to a long and late nap, but had a cold and got up at a little after 4am. So there we were: trains, Barbies, etc. burning the midnight oil. It was a good thing that Daddy had a little vacation coming up. Anyway, the visit was the usual slice of heaven and Daddy was sorry to see the little ones go, as always.
Monday was Presidents' Day which I spent sleeping and packing and Tuesday was a travel day. I've been comatose on the beach for most of the time since. I did get around to getting a camera and snapping a few pictures of the kids and have even taken a few here of sand and surf, so I will update this entry with those images when they become available.
Not much else to report - I will be traveling back to reality-land tomorrow evening and gearing up for another installment of Monkeyshines.
Peace and Love!
1 comment:
Just wanted you to know we're keeping up. Thanks for keeping the Blog going. I'm glad you had a good visit with Dad and Fredi.
Enjoy your next installment of Monkeyshines - we'll be around this weekend if you have a chance to give us a ring. We were skiing in Snowshoe, WV last weekend - a great time with lots of snow... time to chill out back in NC.
Lots of love from your girls and Wayne.
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