Spa days and early morning diaper change

Mark has been off for two days and Morgan and I have gotten to spend some special time together. Yesterday we went to Natalie and Lexi's house for a spa day. Stephanie was there and Morgan and Hannah got to play for awhile. We all got soaked our feet and gave ourselves pedicures. Morgan and I chose the same nail polish and she did her own manicure. We ended up staying almost 3 hours and didn't really want to leave except that we wanted to spend the rest of the day with Audrey and Daddy.

When we got home, we waited out the thunderstorms and headed to the pool. It was sprinkling a little, but that didn't stop us. Morgan had been asking to go to the pool for days. We weren't able to stay too long, but it felt good to get in the water.

I thought Audrey would be completely zonked out all night due to her trip to the pool. However, as it turned out she woke up full of energy at 4:30AM. She was pulling at her diaper so I brought her upstairs for a change. As soon as the new one was on, she looked at me and said with relief, "Ank you." After that she couldn't go back to sleep for about 1 1/2 hours. Around 5:45AM or so she started crying quite loudly. Morgan woke up, helped pat her, and sang a song to her about how much she loves her. Morgan waited until Audrey was able to go back to sleep and then got up.

Morgan and I had time alone again today as well. Audrey was napping and so we hurried out to get Morgan a haircut. On the way, we saw a hawk having a bite to eat about 2 feet from the road. I stopped the car and got out in order to try to get a picture with my phone. (Later I said to Morgan, "I sure would like a camera for my birthday." Immediately my precious daughter said, "OK Mommy. I will get you one.") The picture was absolutely horrible and did nothing to capture the beauty of this bird. It appeared that it had just killed something as it was munching and feathers were flying all around. We stayed a few minutes and just watched it. It was amazing that it didn't even move and we were able to be that close to it.

The rest of the time Mark has been off we have just been hanging around the house. We played on the deck quite a bit and even enjoyed a few showers out there. It was a nice 2 days and I wish Mark could be home again tomorrow.