Time for another entry in the ongoing saga of the ever-exciting, don't-you-wish-you-were-us lives of the Throops!
I know that in the last entry I mentioned that Allie is now a mobile little wave of destruction, but I felt like I just couldn't express the level of excitement she feels in her newfound crawliness. Imagine, if you will, a grin that is somehow both devilish and innocent at the same time, a grin that says, "As soon as your back is turned, I'm eating whatever I find on the floor!" and "You can trust me, I'm a good girl!" That's the grin she has as she sneaks (yes, she does sneak) around the house. That's the grin Kayley managed to capture in the above picture with Claire. Scary, isn't it?
Yesterday we went with Kayley's family to a local park/farm so the girls could see all the newborn animals. Right near the entrance there was a pony ride, and we made the mistake of pointing it out to Claire. Here's a quick tip for everyone out there who doesn't have a little girl yet but might one day have one: If you're not going to let her have a ride right then, DO NOT POINT OUT THE PONY RIDES!!! Claire had a great time holding and petting the ducklings, kids and lambs, but after each one she would ask, "Mom, can we go ride the horsey now?" I got to the point I would grit my teeth after each new animal in preparation for the inevitable plea, whine and pout. I felt like she wasn't just getting on my last nerve, she was using it as a trampoline. ("Mommy, I wanna ride the pony." "Not yet." "But, I wanna. Please?" "We'll do it when we leave." "Buy whyyyyyyyy? sob.")
Finally on the way out we stopped at the pony rides, and let her have her turn. I expected her to want to back out at the last minute like she often does with this sort of thing, but she surprised me by jumping right up and riding around with a huge grin on her face. On the way home she said in a wistful tone, "Daddy, I loved riding the horsey!" It may sound cliche, but that made all the whining worth it.
Not much new on the Kayley and Nate front. Kayley is still working on getting her reading endorsement and is having whole messes of fun teaching full day, even though she sometimes complains about a problem student named Nathan (Ah, the namesake lives on!). I'm still chugging away in biochemistry and will hopefully be able to get an internship down in Salt Lake this summer. It'll be hard being away from Kayley and the girls 5 days out of the week, but it'll only be for the summer, so we'll manage.
Well, that's the update!
2 comments:
What a cutie Claire is riding on that Horsey. Just wait until they think they need to have one of their own to ride, and dad gets them one, but then you live to far away from them to even ride them, now that is fun trying to figure out when you CAN go ride them. But what a fun thing to do for the day.
Your kids are so darling!! I love Allie's smile. Claire looks so cute riding that horse. Have fun this summer with school and all!
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