When mama goes to work...

And here is another milestone in the life of Ophelia: climbing chairs and figuring out that you can scoot a chair over anywhere you can't reach. Thus mama is having to watch her pretty closely! One time I didn't, I heard the water turn on in the bathroom, turned out she climbed the toilet and was "washing hands", as she explained to me.



Note the proximity of a hot pan full of dinner pasta. See what I have to deal with!



On another hand, she can also do a head stand :) Maybe this will keep her from becoming smart so dang quickly! Just kidding, sweety pie Ophelia :)



PJ won an award at UTA for his presentation about the Triqui language that he studied last summer, so Ophelia and I went to support him for the award ceremony. There were 200+ people awarded and PJ was almost the last one up. But as soon as the first person was announced, and everybody clapped, Ophelia exclaimed "YAY, papa!". She said that after the second person too :) I had to tell her that "yay, papa" will have to wait for a while. She had fun saying hello to the row of people behind us and clapping and getting in and out of her foldout chair (which I had to hold down myself, because apparently they are not designed to hold down a 21 lb person). I took more pictures with my ipod, but have not uploaded them yet. But these pictures (kinda like graduation ones) never turn out good from the audience.



We've been visiting friends' houses with Ophelia and she loves having little buddies to play with. Here are pictures from our visit to Kayden, Alysha, and Mackenzie.



Hugs and friends - are such wonderful things to have!



It looked like fun, but Ophelia didn't get into it as much as I did:





I love her long eyelashes!





So hard to take a still picture of her!



It seems that during the week, since we don't see PJ much, Ophelia gets really mama-attached. So, it's been really nice for me to have a day off and for PJ to have a daddy-daughter day. When I went to work last Saturday, PJ got Ophelia a baloon to play with, which she loved! They always have so much fun playing together, being silly and goofy, laughing and tickling and rolling on the bed. So, when mama goes to work, it's fun times apparently. They stay in pijamas until they absolutely have to get dressed. Here is Ophelia with juice spilled at brakfast all over her front. She was still wearing that onesie when I got home from work!!!



And here are the good balloon times:







And this was one lazy Sunday afternoon after church:





And it looks like I say "and" a lot in my posts.

If you need a smile today, watch this!

These are the best dance moves ever! Ophelia totally got into the Sesame street credits song and I grabbed the camera.



One evening we were playing on the floor and after a tower of magnets was ruined by Ophelia, I exclaimed "OH, BLEEEEN!" , which means "oh, pancake" in Russian (it really is a true Russian word used to express frustration). She thought it was the most hilarous thing!

This past general conference weekend, we spent time with our good friends, the Mojicas. Mike's parents have a "cabin" two-and-a-half hours east of here and they invited us over. It was such a nice getaway. We went canoeing, miniature golfing, blow-up house jumping, we roasted hot dog by the firepit, while listening to PJ's guitar and singing song, PJ practiced his Spanish with Mike's grandpa, watched the new disney movie "Tangled" and ate caramel popcorn. All of that plus 8 hours of spiritually uplifting talks made for a wonderful time away from home. It seriously felt like we were there for 5+ days, but it was only 2 days. Ophelia had so much fun playing with Ashlynn and Cameron, and holding, talking to, waking up, consoling baby Maylee. Ophelia is in a stage now, where whenever she hears or sees someone cry, she exclaims "you K", which means "you are okay". Often she says it to herself as well :) Sweet girl!

The Mojica's dog came too, which Ophelia was extatic about! She pet him, playing with him, hugged him, and... gave him her food.

This is the "cabin"...now when I think of a cabin, I imagine a little hut in the woods. This "cabin" is twice as big as our house!!!! We had our own bedroom and Ophelia portacrib fit perfectly into a walk in closet :) She loved it and so did we!

Ashlynn tickling Ophelia:

Watching conference:

This weekend made me realize that Ophelia is capable of being out of her routine and loving it. Made me want to make more little weekend trips like this one.