Brett went out of town this past weekend with his friend Steve, so it was just the kid & me. We did all kinds of fun stuff together to keep busy! We took a trip to the mall, where she ordered her very own kids meal & ate chicken nuggets & French fries for the first time. Then she got to play in the play area & drive the little quarter cars. (She really did have a lot of fun, but she wouldn't smile in any of the pictures.)
After nap time, we went to a place called Monkey Joes which has a lot of inflatables. She's really still kind of little for this place, but our $3 wasn't wasted. They did have a toddler area, but she didn't really want to play in there by herself. I took her on a couple of the big slides & she had fun, but got bored quickly. They also had a little play area with a big chalkboard, and she really liked that. We came home & played some in the leaves again, since it was a nice day.
And she's really getting good at this walking thing. The last picture is of her figuring out how to stand up on her own without using the furniture to pull up. She's got it down pat, too, and is all over the place now!
And when the kid was sleeping, I got to do some things I love to do! I am really excited about a new "cookbook" I put together, which has 6 weeks worth of menus, with recipes that I have already tried & like. Each week has 5 dinners (since we usually eat out or have pizza one or two nights a week), 2 lunches (since most of the dinners have lots of leftovers), 2 breakfasts (we usually have cereal, anyway), and a dessert. Then I put together a shopping list for each week, so all I have to do is pick which week I want to do, take the list & go to the store-- no multiple trips to the grocery store where I end up buying way more than what I came for. So this week one of the lunches was my favorite salad, the Seven-Layer Salad. And the dessert was Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip Cookies. They turned out so good I had to document my success. And of course, I had time to finish about 4 pages of Leah's First Year scrapbook. (I'm up to Month 6! Maybe it will be done by the time she's 2!)
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