A Day With Makayla

At the crack of dawn today, someone appeared in my bed. You understand, of course, that now that I'm an empty nester "crack of dawn" is anytime before noon.

 Hailey is spending the day at the dentist's getting a crown--I missed the coronation because I spent the day with Makayla.

 It was fun to have someone around again to make noise, keep me company, and make comments on my personal appearance before I had time to shower.

Makayla: "Grandma, you hair is like me!"

Me: "Um, thanks Makayla, but your hair has actually been combed today."

I took Makayla to her speech therapy appointment and Costco, and then after her nap we pulled out my steal-of-a-deal garage sale stroller.

 We checked out all of the ants in the neighborhood which Makayla says she "doesn't wanna like" and the grasshoppers which "are nice".

 

 We walked all the way to Eagle Cliff Elementary, which as my children know, is at least 30 miles away, uphill both ways. It's changed a lot since my kids went there. They now have a beautiful playground in front--something that was just blacktop and then a very small climbing toy when my kids were there.

Makayla had lots of fun sliding

and climbing.

 This newsflash will probably surprise you, but everywhere we go, Makayla's hair draws lots of comments.

Way to color-coordinate your outfit with Eagle Cliff's school colors, Makayla!

When we got home, Makayla wanted to play "wrap me up like a Ashley's little person".

In between our various activities, I made several batches of Raspberry Freezer Jam.

 I'm not sure who's going to be eating all this jam I'm making, but I've been making gallons of jam for so long, I don't seem to be able to stop myself.

 While I made jam, Makayla ate. And ate. And, um, ate. Today she had a medium french fry and milk on the way home from Costco, an extra large bowl of noodles with homemade spaghetti sauce, four cereal bowls full of cherry tomatoes, at least a cup of peanuts, a serving of applesauce, a piece of bread, several handfuls of raspberries, and more milk. Luckily, Amy picked her up just before we were sitting down to eat supper. Good thing. Makayla is eating us out of house and home and I'm all out of fresh tomatoes.

Thanks for keeping me company today, Makayla!