blessings

Love Thursday: Playing catch-up

March 22

  • Shopping with Dad.
  • Taking a real nap. I slept for an hour! In the middle of the day!
  • Milkshakes!
  • The beer ad where the squirrel attacks the guy.

    April 1

  • Chatting with Rockford while taking a drive.
  • Poppy singing, “Where-o, where-o, where-o Daddy? Where Daddy be?”
  • Rockford shaving!
  • Rockford having the whole day off.

    April 2

  • Poppy splashing (and splashing and splashing) in a puddle.
  • Getting “Don’t Stop Believing” stuck in Rockford’s head.
  • Poppy’s exuberance when Rockford gets home from work.
  • Nicolas Cage’s hair in “Next.”
  • Warm applesauce.

    April 3

  • Country Peach Snapple.
  • Poppy whispering “cuddles” when we cuddle on the couch.
  • Playing “catch” with Poppy.

    April 6

  • Cubs win!
  • Test driving a Honda Fit … and deciding we don’t need a new car.

    April 7

  • Rockford singing, “Cereal, cereal, ce-re-al” to the tune of “Gloria” in the cereal aisle at Target.
  • Watching “King of Queens.” We watched that goofy show almost every night when I was pregnant with Poppy.
  • Another nap!
  • Another whole day off for Rockford!
  • Poppy saying “one more time.”
  • Poppy loving her grilled cheese sandwich so much. (“Mmmmmmm” … “Yum!”). And Poppy rejected a grape, saying, “Ewwww … yucky” when it touched her plate.
  • Talking about “Lost” with Rockford.
  • Realizing that Saturday nights are full of Horatio Caine!

    April 8

  • Jelly beans! And chocolate!
  • Rockford’s basketball “moves.”
  • That nice Zach Johnson boy winning The Masters.
  • Poppy saying, “Bless you” after she sneezed.

    April 9

  • “CSI Miami.”
  • Poppy eating all of her baked potato.
  • Smore’s Pop Tarts.

    April 10

  • The rolls and key lime pie at Ted’s Montana Grill
  • Marsha’s cat smile.
  • “The Rockford Files.”
  • Poppy loving the “breeze” from the hairdryer.

    April 11

  • Poppy saying, “Ice cream time!” when I was tickling her. She doesn’t even like ice cream! I think she was trying to distract me.
  • Creamy potato soup. So good!
  • Baked apples with vanilla ice cream.