*a day

A pretty normal, great day here. After sleeping until 8:00 in her own bed, Vera and I had a fun little trip to the grocery store. We came back with some little hair things which I tried to talk up the whole way home. Is it bad that I think she is about the cutest thing in the world with these little ponytails?? Too bad they lasted about 10 minutes... the rest of the day if I tried to put them in I was met with fierce opposition.


One nice advantage to Ben being a student is that he is around during the day to help out with Vera. He's actually taken most of the summer off from serious studying and I've been a bit spoiled. So today, during her 2 hour nap, I went to the mall and found some cute shorts + a top [thank you you know who!] and a cute on-sale bathroom rug at Anthropologie. When I got home, Ben and Vera went on a nice long bike ride out for ice cream and the park:

Meanwhile I got to be home alone. I made popsicles [more coconut ones... I think this batch will be gooood] as well as an attempt to copy a dish from work. It tasted good but didn't look very pretty :) Either way, I really enjoyed the time by myself. I haven't had much time to cook lately and it was so nice - thank you Ben!!

Before Vera went off to bed we hung out over at our neighbors' for a bit. She truly loves these 2 and it makes us so happy to see. It also makes us realize how great it would be to live near more family!!!! [I say more because we do live near my brother, who also stopped by today. Vera showed him every possible toy and activity she loves, from Bunny to making a train with chairs to drinking tea :)]

She was a bit too wound up perhaps and didn't go to bed well, unfortunately. I guess it couldn't be all perfect :)

*So that was our day! We've been in need of this kind...*