Vacation Wrap Up and Easter
Well, I never went back and proofread my vacation post. Oh, well.
In that post I mentioned that we did some stuff over the few days we were still home after we got back from the trip. Before we went on vacation we had been shopping for beds. Sydney's (main) birthday present this year is a new "big girl" bed.
We had decided on looking at bunk beds. We wanted one that had storage built into it. We found a few models that we liked as we shopped around. The weekend before vacation we were at a store and they had available one of the models that we liked. They had to order it, but they offered a really good price on it so we went ahead.
It arrived while we were in San Diego and we had it delivered on Thursday, the day after we got back. We didn't pay for assembly, but apparently the guys in the warehouse were slow and bored one day and put most of it together for us.
During vacation Sydney enjoyed sleeping on her own "big bed" (roll away) in the hotel room. So when we explained and showed her that she was getting her own bed she was really excited. We shopped for new sheets and a comforter, cleaned and re-organized her room and got everything set up.
The bed takes up most of her room, but it is worth it. She loves it and it gives us extra storage space in there. Especially since she's still too young for the top bunk and we can stick all of her stuffed animals up there. (Except the ones she sleeps with - which varies since every few days she puts one back and pulls another one down.)
The bottom bed is a full/double. It's plenty big enough for even our tall daughter to grow into for years to come.
Sydney has a new hiding spot when we play Hide N Seek.
Of course, I have to help her stack the pillows up around her, so it's not too difficult to find her. But I pretend it is. One day after I stacked the pillows around her she was peeking out of a hole between pillows. She looked so cute I had to get the camera to take a picture.
And she thought a picture was such a great idea that she had me go get her camera so she could take a picture.
The camera was a Christmas present and Sydney loves taking pictures with it. (There are a lot of floor/feet shots, but not as many now that she has figured out where the button is so she can push it will looking through the view finder.) And some of you may be wondering why you haven't seen any of Sydney's great pictures.
Well, mainly that would be because, to be a durable children's camera, the batteries and memory card are in a compartment that is screwed on. So it's a bit of a pain to get the card out. Plus I usually forget about it when I'm planning blog posts. Sorry.
And to answer the other question I can hear everyone asking, yes, we did take the camera on vacation with us. Unfortunately, it stayed in the backpack almost the whole time. As we were packing things each morning I'd see it and think that we need to give it to her when we get to where we were going. And then I'd forget. And I don't think Sydney gave it much thought, either.
Last week I took Thursday and Friday off (in addition to Saturday and Sunday). It was mainly to watch basketball since the NCAA basketball tournament opening rounds were those two days. There was other stuff to do (like take Sydney to her play class on Thursday morning), but when I was home I was mostly watching basketball.
So you can imagine my distress of having a young little girl want to play Chase or Hide N Seek and having to chase her into other rooms of the house while I'm trying to watch the exciting end of a tournament upset. What's a loving father to do?
Why find a game that can be played in the living room, of course!
So I had Sydney go get the pillows out of the front room and I built her a fort out of pillows and blankets on the couch. She loved it. (And enjoys knocking them down when we're done almost much as she likes playing in them.)
Sydney was very excited about Easter, as you might imagine. The Easter Bunny was coming. He was going to hide eggs for her to find and bring her an Easter basket full of goodies.
We dyed eggs on Saturday. Sydney mostly enjoyed it though the waiting part was hard. Between the egg being put in the dye and taking it out there wasn't much to do. And between taking the egg out and waiting for it to dry so it could be further decorated there wasn't much to do. But she made due with "stirring" the egg in the blue dye and she seemed happy with that.
Easter morning arrived and she was very excited. She came in our bedroom to get us. We normally snuggle in the mornings when all three of us are home, but she wasn't having much of that. We went downstairs and found the Easter basket the Easter Bunny had left on the coffee table in the front room. Sydney saw it right away as we came downstairs.
We sorted through the various goodies that were in it.
The item Sydney is holding in that picture was her favorite present from the Easter Bunny. It's a little egg wand. When you push the button on it the little wheel inside the egg spins around and the colored lights on the wheel light up and flash in simple patterns. She barely let go of it all day on Sunday.
By the end of the day the batteries were going. On Monday morning it was time to replace the batteries and I had to tell her that I would have to get them on my way to work so she couldn't play with it the rest of the day. So I got new batteries at Radio Shack on my way to work on Monday. Then on Tuesday morning Sydney came in to get me when she woke up (extra early), told me it was time to get up, and (repeatedly) told me we had to go downstairs now "to put the batteries in". Luckily I had done that when I got home the night before, so it was all ready to go.
Aaaanyway, the Easter Bunny did a fine job hiding the eggs we had dyed. (And he didn't seem to have a problem finding them in the refrigerator, though I'm sure he's used to having to get eggs from there.) He hid the eggs throughout the four downstairs rooms and Sydney found them all.
After the egg hunt we went back about our usual morning routine. But then Sydney happened to look out the back patio door and saw an Easter egg outside. The Easter Bunny had apparently hid some plastic eggs outside in the back yard again this year!
So we (kind of) bundled up and went outside to look for more eggs.
Once the egg hunt was over we went back inside to open the eggs. Sydney got some snacks, but the Easter Bunny also had some larger plastic eggs that had little Sesame Street figures in them.
Later that day we went over to our friends' house (Diana and Ruffie - Jackie's mom and step-father) for Easter dinner. Sydney got another Easter basket from Diana and a third one (in a little purse instead of a basket) from Donna (mother of our friend Kathy). You can probably imagine that she was quite excited about it all. Though I don't think she ever let go of that light.
In that post I mentioned that we did some stuff over the few days we were still home after we got back from the trip. Before we went on vacation we had been shopping for beds. Sydney's (main) birthday present this year is a new "big girl" bed.
We had decided on looking at bunk beds. We wanted one that had storage built into it. We found a few models that we liked as we shopped around. The weekend before vacation we were at a store and they had available one of the models that we liked. They had to order it, but they offered a really good price on it so we went ahead.
It arrived while we were in San Diego and we had it delivered on Thursday, the day after we got back. We didn't pay for assembly, but apparently the guys in the warehouse were slow and bored one day and put most of it together for us.
During vacation Sydney enjoyed sleeping on her own "big bed" (roll away) in the hotel room. So when we explained and showed her that she was getting her own bed she was really excited. We shopped for new sheets and a comforter, cleaned and re-organized her room and got everything set up.
The bed takes up most of her room, but it is worth it. She loves it and it gives us extra storage space in there. Especially since she's still too young for the top bunk and we can stick all of her stuffed animals up there. (Except the ones she sleeps with - which varies since every few days she puts one back and pulls another one down.)
The bottom bed is a full/double. It's plenty big enough for even our tall daughter to grow into for years to come.
Sydney has a new hiding spot when we play Hide N Seek.
Of course, I have to help her stack the pillows up around her, so it's not too difficult to find her. But I pretend it is. One day after I stacked the pillows around her she was peeking out of a hole between pillows. She looked so cute I had to get the camera to take a picture.
And she thought a picture was such a great idea that she had me go get her camera so she could take a picture.
The camera was a Christmas present and Sydney loves taking pictures with it. (There are a lot of floor/feet shots, but not as many now that she has figured out where the button is so she can push it will looking through the view finder.) And some of you may be wondering why you haven't seen any of Sydney's great pictures.
Well, mainly that would be because, to be a durable children's camera, the batteries and memory card are in a compartment that is screwed on. So it's a bit of a pain to get the card out. Plus I usually forget about it when I'm planning blog posts. Sorry.
And to answer the other question I can hear everyone asking, yes, we did take the camera on vacation with us. Unfortunately, it stayed in the backpack almost the whole time. As we were packing things each morning I'd see it and think that we need to give it to her when we get to where we were going. And then I'd forget. And I don't think Sydney gave it much thought, either.
Last week I took Thursday and Friday off (in addition to Saturday and Sunday). It was mainly to watch basketball since the NCAA basketball tournament opening rounds were those two days. There was other stuff to do (like take Sydney to her play class on Thursday morning), but when I was home I was mostly watching basketball.
So you can imagine my distress of having a young little girl want to play Chase or Hide N Seek and having to chase her into other rooms of the house while I'm trying to watch the exciting end of a tournament upset. What's a loving father to do?
Why find a game that can be played in the living room, of course!
So I had Sydney go get the pillows out of the front room and I built her a fort out of pillows and blankets on the couch. She loved it. (And enjoys knocking them down when we're done almost much as she likes playing in them.)
Sydney was very excited about Easter, as you might imagine. The Easter Bunny was coming. He was going to hide eggs for her to find and bring her an Easter basket full of goodies.
We dyed eggs on Saturday. Sydney mostly enjoyed it though the waiting part was hard. Between the egg being put in the dye and taking it out there wasn't much to do. And between taking the egg out and waiting for it to dry so it could be further decorated there wasn't much to do. But she made due with "stirring" the egg in the blue dye and she seemed happy with that.
Easter morning arrived and she was very excited. She came in our bedroom to get us. We normally snuggle in the mornings when all three of us are home, but she wasn't having much of that. We went downstairs and found the Easter basket the Easter Bunny had left on the coffee table in the front room. Sydney saw it right away as we came downstairs.
We sorted through the various goodies that were in it.
The item Sydney is holding in that picture was her favorite present from the Easter Bunny. It's a little egg wand. When you push the button on it the little wheel inside the egg spins around and the colored lights on the wheel light up and flash in simple patterns. She barely let go of it all day on Sunday.
By the end of the day the batteries were going. On Monday morning it was time to replace the batteries and I had to tell her that I would have to get them on my way to work so she couldn't play with it the rest of the day. So I got new batteries at Radio Shack on my way to work on Monday. Then on Tuesday morning Sydney came in to get me when she woke up (extra early), told me it was time to get up, and (repeatedly) told me we had to go downstairs now "to put the batteries in". Luckily I had done that when I got home the night before, so it was all ready to go.
Aaaanyway, the Easter Bunny did a fine job hiding the eggs we had dyed. (And he didn't seem to have a problem finding them in the refrigerator, though I'm sure he's used to having to get eggs from there.) He hid the eggs throughout the four downstairs rooms and Sydney found them all.
After the egg hunt we went back about our usual morning routine. But then Sydney happened to look out the back patio door and saw an Easter egg outside. The Easter Bunny had apparently hid some plastic eggs outside in the back yard again this year!
So we (kind of) bundled up and went outside to look for more eggs.
Once the egg hunt was over we went back inside to open the eggs. Sydney got some snacks, but the Easter Bunny also had some larger plastic eggs that had little Sesame Street figures in them.
Later that day we went over to our friends' house (Diana and Ruffie - Jackie's mom and step-father) for Easter dinner. Sydney got another Easter basket from Diana and a third one (in a little purse instead of a basket) from Donna (mother of our friend Kathy). You can probably imagine that she was quite excited about it all. Though I don't think she ever let go of that light.
posted by Tah at 10:26 PM
3 Comments:
Looks like you had a great Easter Tah!
And I really want one of those beds! How cool is it?!?
That is some bed! I can hardly wait to see it in person. Maybe Sydney will show it to me?
I loved the little running commentary that Sydney was muttering to herself while hunting eggs!
Oh, and that bed is really cool.
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