take your daughter(s) to work day...

i never realized that "take your daughter to work-day" is also known as a "mommy's free to do whatever the heck she wants-day!" never really thought about it like that!

this year i felt like both avery and livi were old enough to come down to CD1o1 to spend a few hours with daddy bouncing around the loft. here we are just relaxing at my desk. notice the always-present "terrible towel" product placement!

while avery wrote a couple commercials for me... livi hit the sierra mist stash pretty hard! luckily we had quite the supply.

after the work got done, avery decided to leave a wall-size mural one of our dry-erase boards.

while avery drew... olivia posed for people down in the lobby... then drank some more sierra mist.

and finally we capped the afternoon off with a walk through the studio. andyman was nice enough to let the girls snap a pic in the captain's chair!

so overall, a good afternoon of bouncing around cd101 for the girls. they had fun. they came home tired. and when we got back we found mommy curled up on a chair... watching "her show," while reading a magazine that had nothing to do with parenting, or kids.

amy asked me if monday was going to be another "TYDsTW" day. sorry hun... you'll just have to wait till next year. :)

oh, what to do when it rains...

there's really only one answer to that question.. an "umbrella party," naturally!  jeez!

 

after an Easter weekend that included a pleasant little trip to the ER for some asthma assistance.. we ended up coming back to columbus a day early.  which meant that there was some "stay-at-home" time for daddy with the girls left.  and regardless of the rain, we decided to pile up the crew and hit creekside in gahanna for a little rain-drop-dodging!

 

any other day... a walk thru the woods at creekside is nice little get away!  but pair it with an umbrella, some rain boots along with a little puddle jumping... and a little rock skipping... and you've got an afternoon that they just can't stop talking about! 

 

even the wildlife had their rain coats on!  the girls loved how the rain drops just beaded off this swans head!  sadly... the water doesn't bead off A & O's heads as well.  no worries.