Out an About

Eva likes to get out of the house. Sometimes in the mornings, she'll start rattling the safety gate at the bottom of the stairs and asking to go "bye, bye". I try to take her out at least once a day, even if it's just on an errand. She loves to go to the playground at the mall. I took her on Saturday with my mom and sister, while Dave was getting his hair cut. At one point she came up to me wanting something, so I went to the stroller to get her sippy cup. I was only gone a second, but when I got back she wasn't there, and my mom had no idea where she'd gone. I was just about to panic when a lady sitting nearby pointed behind me and said she saw Eva walk right past me. I turned around and saw her in front of the music store, about 40 feet away. It just about gave me a heart attack how quickly they can disappear like that! Later in the week I took her to a park with a friend. She'd never been to a "big kid" playground before, and kept wanting to go down the biggest slide. Of course she wanted me to go with her. It must have been a sight to see my huge pregnant self with a toddler going down the slide. I'm glad there were no cameras around! Eva is still uncertain about walking on sand, and kept wanting to hold my hand. If she loses her balance she has to catch herself with her hands, and for some reason she didn't like sand on her hands. What a miss priss! A little while later she started playing with it though, so it couldn't have been too bad. She'd fling it in the air and ended up with a bunch of it in her clothes and hair. Don't you just love toddlers?