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Happy Friday! After two weekends of traveling, I am very much looking forward to spending this weekend at home. The past few days have been full of rain, rain and more rain but the forecast for tomorrow and Sunday is looking much better. Temperatures are starting to creep down ever so slowly, and I’m excited by the thought that fall will be here soon.
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I’m also happier than usual to reach the weekend because geez, it was kind of a ridiculous week for me at work. I had to deal with several frustrating things and frustrating people on all fronts. Yep, one of THOSE kind of weeks.
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Emma’s language development continues in leaps and bound. She basically narrates everything we do these days, and she talks so much in the car that I can’t listen to podcasts like I used to because she drowns them out with a stream of:
“Light green Mommy!”
“There’s a bus!”
“We stop! Light red!”
“Space shuttle on top of airplane!”
“Truck! Big truck!”
“School! There’s school!”
“See my friends!”
It is pretty much the best.
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She is also picking up a ton of stuff at daycare, including songs and rhymes. The other night she was talking to herself while playing in the living room, and suddenly Jose and I realized she was reciting “Five Little Monkeys.”
Again, it is pretty much the best.
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Of course, her vocal abilities are less impressive when she is wailing for her “loooooollllllllipooooopppppp” as she was yesterday after swimming lessons.
(It was a dum dum. She had eaten about half of it but then I took it away because I didn’t want her sucking on it in the car on the way home…choking hazard, etc, etc. She was not amused.)
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A few weeks back I signed up for my very first “swap” — where you are given a partner and make something for them. This was a Starbucks mug rug swap, and the two required items are 1) a Starbucks “You Are Here” mug and 2) a mug rug. (A mug rug is just a quilted piece, maybe the size of a napkin or a bit larger, that you can use to set your mug on. A rug for your mug. Ha!)
My package arrived on Wednesday from Stephanie at Creative Reveries and it was so awesome! She sent me a Washington DC mug and a great rainbow colored mug rug — and as a bonus, she sent a matching pouch and a handful of charm squares. So cool!
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There are still a few days before the swap ends, and I’ll be sending out my own package to my assigned partner tomorrow. Above is a sneak peek of what I’m making! I’ll post better photos of the whole package next week.