Mara’s Blog Influencing the world one day at a time since 2005…

We made another visit to the childrens museum downtown a couple of weekends ago. If you remember, we’ve been there before. This time we went just to go in for a visit. We thought that Mara would have some fun. In fact she did. We made it to a lot more of the museum since Mara is older now and she was able to interact with quite a few more things. This will likely be the outcome as she gets older so I’m sure this isn’t the last time we will go. Take a look at her having fun by clicking the picture and going through the photos.

Don’t know if it is this way in your neck of the woods, but down here in North Carolina it has been HOT almost all summer long. A few times so far we have been lucky to experience a break in the heat. We got one of those breaks a few weeks ago, the weekend after the 4th of July. Since it cooled off a little on that Saturday the family decided it would be a nice day for a picnic. So we packed up the car with a couple of items, then took the lazy way out for food and went to KFC to pick up a meal.

As usual Mara liked the bread portion of the meal best, eating as much biscuit as she could. Mom and Dad had to resort to hiding chicken in it to get her to eat any meat. This was also the first day that she had corn on the cob. She took a couple of bites right off the cob herself. Overall she enjoyed the moment being outside on the grass and playing with her bracelets (Linkadoos). Click through either of the pictures to view more.

A week or so ago we went to try out the new Red Robin restaurant that opened up near us. I hadn’t been to one in about ten years since I lived in Charlotte. We’re pretty happy to have more restaurant choices close by opening all the time.

Mara was looking pretty sassy that day, and since it was hot and sunny she had her sunglasses on. Lately too, she has become extremely outgoing and now waves and smiles at strangers as they pass by. It used to be that we had to prompt her to say hello. Not anymore!

So we thought we would take a few pictures of her because she was acting like a movie star. You see her here showing off her balloon. Balloons are one of her favorite things! Click the picture to see more shots.

One Saturday afternoon while cleaning up our garage we found all kinds of fun stuff we use to have in the attic at our other home. I think most of it was leftover from New Years parties and Abbott national meetings. The stuff we found was perfect for Mara’s first time playing dress-up. As you can see here she makes a wonderful attempt at OVER accessorizing which is every little ones goal when playing dress-up. Yes, she IS wearing boxing gloves. It is a very unconventional session of dress-up. The pictures are very amusing.

Mara is quite the clown these days. Somewhere recently, maybe daycare, she has picked up the term “okie-dokie”. Now she walks around saying it.

Just two weekends ago when Luke & I had Mara on our bed tickling her (with mouth wide-open laughing) we noticed she is getting three incisors!

Here are a couple silly pictures we wanted to share with you.

Our neighborhood pool had a party recently. Mara was enjoying herself as you can see. People, seeing her float around at the pool, often ask will she just sit like that and cruise around in her float and for the most part the answer is, yes. She will now keep her sunglasses on her face too. The whole time while we vacated in the Dominican she kept removing them. Now it’s just the opposite. If they are off she’s not happy. And she can actually put them on all by herself and gets them on right most of the time.

Mara has had a very fun and leisurely start of the summer so far. We are just starting to work on getting some furniture in the backyard. She always asks to be put in the hammock. She likes rocking with Mommy or Daddy! This one where she looks like she’s sleeping but smiling cracks me up. Mara is always good for a laugh these days. She’s very funny.