Cole's happily playing with a puzzle and Accalia is still sleeping. Lucy's barking to be let in now. Hang on.

Okay. We were gone for much of the day yesterday, and then Accalia spent the majority of the evening playing games at this site, so I really didn't get a chance to be online much.

It was a pretty good day overall, but by the time we got home both kids were quite cranky - probably trying to decompress from the day and just a bit tired. We started off at the library for storytime. I've noticed that Accalia seems to move towards the boys rather than the girls when she's in a setting with children from both genders. Maybe it's just my imagination.

Cory told me that he should really start giving me some of his cards to hand out to parents when I see them doing or saying certain things :) During storytime, I was over by the toys and puzzles with some of the other moms and infants/toddlers. One of the boys kept lying down on the floor and saying "Now I'm pretending to be dead." The mom said, "No, you don't pretend to be dead. Pretend your asleep." I think it's just a natural progression of childhood to wonder about death and to act that out in your play, although obviously there's probably a point where too much obsession with death could raise red flags. Don't think that was the case here, but the mom really wasn't comfortable with her son talking about death. Accalia's never really asked about death or played dead, but we talked a little about it last May when my grandma died.

After storytime (and after having to drive back to the library from about 5 miles out of town to retrieve the kids' jackets), we headed to nearby Hartington, NE to visit with my pseudo LLL co-Leader and anyone else who was at her bimonthly open house for moms. The turnout wasn't as good as last time, but there were a couple of her friends - moms who once nursed - and one of her daughters-in-law and her two kids. Accalia had a blast running around with a little boy, and Cole wasn't quite sure at first how to approach the little girl close to his age. We spent a couple hours there and stopped at the grocery store before heading home.

I think we're going out to the dam today to watch all of the people fish for paddlefish. The monthlong fishing season just opened up here. I'm really not thrilled about fishing and hunting as "sports" (as opposed to fishing and hunting out of necessity for food, etc.), but Accalia loves being out at the dam and watching all of the boats. Then we'll probably head to the aquarium if it's open. For the most part, though, I think today will be hanging out at home and catching up on things.