Did you see last night's full moon? It was gorgeous and just happened to be the largest and brightest one of the year.

I just put Ella down in bed after a day of no napping. Unfortunately, going to bed at 7 p.m. even without napping does not mean that my almost two-year-old will be down for the night. I really hope she is, but I've grown accustomed to not expecting that to be an absolute. Ella had a glorious day of playing with lots of kids - pouring dirt on her head while chatting up the 5-year-old next door, sitting in my friend K.'s lap and instructing us to clap whenever she pushed a Matchbox car through the toy carwash, and so on.

We were planning to get together with K. and her girls this morning, but they didn't show up until two hours after the time we had agreed on. I didn't hear from her, so I didn't know if I had just mixed up the time or if perhaps they were called to take in a foster child (recently licensed as foster parents), or what. It turns out that they were in an accident on the way to our house and had spent this time dealing with the police, etc. Thankfully no one was hurt, but their van is probably a goner.

We did a little shopping this afternoon, including Accalia picking out a new shampoo for herself. This is very serious business as Accalia is really into making her bath an elaborate affair. She has no desire to take a shower and instead luxuriates in a bath and experiments with all of these different bath products that I've collected but have never had a chance to use.

Cole was so excited (as usual) to play with the neighbor girls, but today he easily got upset with them. Sometimes it's something like one of the girls taking "his" swing while other times it's the oldest (age 6) doing something because she knows it upsets him (sometimes real, sometimes mock anger). Cole is not a fan of being teased, but this seems to be a big thing for the neighbor girl. There are times when Accalia will start to tease Cole, but she knows to pull back when he no longer likes where it's heading and moves on to something else. The neighbor girl - not so much.

Cory works tonight, tomorrow night and Sunday night delivering pizzas, but we should have our days for fun family times. We'll start getting things ready on Sunday for our family celebration of Ella's birthday, which should be an absolute blast. Cory's taking the day off for that.