Cookies

You know those wafer cookies that have some sort of cream filling between rectangular wafers?  I bought some strawberry ones the other day.  It took me about 12 hours to polish off the package.  I'm now through package #2 in just under a couple of hours.  Zero will power on stuff like this.  Which is precisely why I never buy cookies when I'm at home. 

It was D's morning, so I slept in.  In fact, I slept so long that when D came upstairs to put Avery down for her morning nap, I selflessly offered to sleep with Avery during her morning nap. He's now upstairs putting her to sleep.  We are switching off days.  So when it's his morning, it's also his night to bathe and put her to sleep. Tomorrow is mine.  

Avery keeps pointing to her ear and sometimes pulling on it.  She has no other signs of an ear infection and is not cranky.  We'll keep an eye on it. 

Yesterday I showed Avery where her belly button was.  She was fascinated and apparently didn't know that was there.  Today if you ask her to show you her belly button, she lifts up her shirt and points to it.  Then she gets fascinated by it all over again.  Sometimes she looks at it, then looks up and says, "uh oh!"  This leads to the fact that it only recently occured to me to play the "where's your ..." game.  I am missing the gene that early education professionals have.  This is rather amusing considering both of my parents graduated from college with teaching degrees (for elementary students). 

Bouncing onto another topic, the skies at night here are amazing.  There are so many stars.  It's just gorgeous.  There's also a satellite - I think that's what it is - that looks like a really bright star.  I don't care if it is a satellite.  It's beautiful. 

We have realized that we need some people with specific skill sets to enhance our vacations down here.  First, we need to locate a guy (or gal) who is very handy around the house and loves to fish.  I figure this person could do some home maintenance down here in exchange for using our place, which happens to have great sport fishing (from what I'm told).  It's a pipe dream that we'll find such a person, but that would be nice.  Why two people who loathe home maintanence go and buy another home I'm not sure, but we did it.  The other thing we need is a nanny on vacation.  Anyone want to come be our nanny?  Relaxing is tough with a 1-year-old. 

Last night we went to a homeowner's happy hour at the bar in the hotel located next to our community.  Avery stood out at a bit, but she quickly charmed those around her by stopping her frenzied crawling and bopping to the music in the middle of the floor.