Monday Off!

Blurry self-portrait before hitting the swings
As much as we wanted to try to motivate and do something special this long weekend (there were pie in the sky plans for hotel brunch), Mommy was hard at work coordinating family happenings in the US, so Margaret and I were on our own.

Nothing a trip to the park after breakfast couldn't fix!

She had a blast.

Wild and Swinging
Coming home to find Mommy still hard at work, we actually went to our building's children's play room which we rarely ever visit. But needing a change of scenery without wanting to go far, we spent the remainder of the morning in air conditioned comfort crawling around a room larger than any in our house and eating Goldfish and Cheerios out of a Snacktrap.

"Which hat should I wear?"
We came home and tried to eat our lunch as quietly as possible so as not to disturb an exhausted Mommy taking a well earned nap. Margaret finally went down for her nap at around 11:45 without a single peep. Having kept her awake all morning, Margaret would only need one nap for the day.

SAM had a lunch appointment with an old Milton friend who just moved to Hong Kong, so after waking M up at 2:30, it was off to the park again for more swinging with just the two of us, followed by a trip to the grocery store... but not before trying on some hats!

We got home almost at exactly the same time Mommy did at around 4:30.

"This one?"
Margaret was an absolute gem all afternoon, despite Dad's attempts to corrupt her with Hagen Dazs Coffee ice cream. He even tried to give her some in the middle of dinner! Mommy got a little frustrated by that, though.

The greatest thing was that she was actually sticky to me in the afternoon, which is kind of rare. It may have been the ice cream, but I like to think it's because we bonded more than we normally get to today.

"Or this one?"
The rest of the evening was pure family time until putting Margaret down.

Now, SAM and I are both sitting in our living room, computers in our laps, doing our respective computer type things. Gotta' love wireless networking.

The long weekend is over. *sigh*