Brian has been doing another week of traveling from Tuesday through Thursday. It’s usually kinda hard for me to be without him and alone with Bea for that long. But this has been a nice week.
Maybe it’s because the majority of my planting got done in one fell swoop thanks to Grandma and Grandpa. Bea oversaw the effort with her big shovel.
Maybe it’s because we’ve been able to get outside on beautiful mornings like this one. She looks like a little mushroom because we just got off my bike.
Maybe it’s all the fresh air we are getting and how that seems to be helping Bea sleep well. Here she is running around on the patio. She finally decided that these sandals from Jenna’s collection are acceptable. Now I expect that she’ll refuse to wear any other shoes for the next two months.
Or maybe it’s because I got a good laugh tonight that made me think I’m not doing so bad as a parent. We were out on the patio running around yelling “meow” (Bea’s favorite pastime lately) when I heard a neighbor on his balcony saying “Daniel will you please open the door right NOW!”. I looked up and saw a dad pacing back and forth on his little balcony while he muttered angry sounding things under his breath. His kid had locked the sliding glass door so he was stuck there. He was irate and yet trying to keep it together to think of a way to get the kid to open the door. He kept repeating “Daniel will you open the door right NOW please!” getting angrier and angrier. I tried not to stare or snicker. Then I saw him looking in the window pleading “I’ll give you ice cream with chocolate on top”. Pretty soon I noticed he was no longer stuck on his balcony.
Laowai 
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