The Week in Review

After enjoying Labor Day with our friends, things got back down to business around here. DC United had two league games at home during the week, then they left on Sunday for a trip to Trinidad, so it has been a busy week for Mark. The girls and I visited Shen and her girls so we could get in one last day play time with Emme before she started school (her first day of Kindergarten was today). Here are Nina and Emme showing off their matching jammies. While we were there, we also got to check out Ryleigh's shiner. She had an unfortunate run-in with the corner of a boat cabin, and this was four days after the incident, so we didn't even see the worst of it.

Lyla had a rough and tumble week as well. Thankfully, I don't have any pictures to prove it. She started with falling while attempting to climb one of our kitchen chairs. I was on the floor putting on Nina's shoes, and Lyla was climbing the chairs (like she always does) when she slipped off the front and hit her face on the chair on her way down. It was scary for me because I couldn't tell if all the blood was coming from her nose or her mouth, but after getting her calmed down and cleaned up, I saw it was a cut in her mouth, so thankfully nothing major.

The next day, Nina and I were in the yard cleaning off our shoes from going to the playground, and Lyla was playing with her wagon in the garage (or so I thought) when I heard the sound of tricycle wheels on the driveway, and I look over and see Lyla careening down the driveway on the tricycle and crashing into the grass at the base of the driveway. Thankfully it wasn't the sidewalk or the street that she crashed on. I have no idea how she managed to get the tricycle from the back of the garage, get it to the top of the driveway (b/c she can't even reach the pedals when she sits on it), get on, and take off down the driveway in the 2 minute span of time it took me to get the hose unravelled to wash off our shoes.

She followed that up by dropping some unsavory morsels in the bathtub while in there with Nina - much to Nina's dismay. She's had quite a week! On a happier note for me, our computer is back now, so that means blog posts are back too.