Papa come home...

...because at about 6:30 pm, mama starts getting grumpy.

Tonight I was helping mama clean out the dishwasher and found a dull cheese spreader. I declared it "my knife" and insisted on cutting all my food. Luckily mama has a special kid knife that she let me use. I cut my hot dog but it was a little wiggly.

When mama helped it was a little easier. Then she let me cut up my pear all by myself.

After supper, we put puzzles together while Juner played with her toys. It was fun except mama got upset every time I screamed and threw my puzzle pieces in the air.

When June got tired of her baby toys, she headed top the best toy in the house- the light sensor night light. She's been warned about a half million times by everyone in the house that it is not a toy. Then she figured out how she could turn the light on by covering up the sensor in the front. She'll usually play with that for about 4 minutes before she goes back to trying to yank it out of the wall.

Bounce U- Juner.

This morning papa left for work very early because he was driving to Georgia to get a guest lecture at a colloquium at the University of Georgia (which is only 4.5 hours away). While papa's gone, we decided to live it up a bit.

Mama took us to a place called Bounce U. It's just a big room with a ton of inflatable slides, obstacle courses, and bounce rooms. (Think Fairview after-prom for kids.) Excuse the pictures. The light was bad, the kids were moving fast, and I kept grabbing the camera.

Henry spent most of the morning trying to get mama to go into the bounce rooms with him. Most of the slides were still a little too big for him to climb on his own. So since mama went in that meant I had to go in too. And I was not so pleased about that. I was tired and my nose was runny and I did not like bouncing or dodging balls that were being thrown by other kids. I think mama thought she would just send Henry in and sit on the sideline with me chatting up the other moms. If we go again, she said she would bring a stroller for me to sit in while she chases Henry.

Finally, Henry figured out that he could go up the big slide without any help, so he climbed it and went down it about 50 times.

We even got a video of him coming down. I can't wait until I'm big enough to slide myself.

Bounce U was such a big hit that Henry took a 3 hour nap and I'm still asleep after 3.5 hours. Mama was going to take a nap too, but she decided to be a little more productive. She said when papa left we'd live it up and eat starchy food all weekend. So she made chocolate cookies with a peanut butter center (like a buckeye cookie!). And we're having beef stroganoff with mushrooms for supper (woo hoo). And to make up for that, she said we can have pizza tomorrow.

She also made this funny wallet out of a orange juice carton.

She saw the pattern for this in FamilyFun magazine, and thought it was so cute that she even went out and bought rich people orange juice in a carton so she could make one.

Now we just have to figure out what we're going to do with a wallet made out of a juice carton! Thanks for the magazine subscription Aunt Elizabeth!