Monday, Monday...

Here we are, day 2 of daycare! Finally. Though baby-o was crankers when he woke up this morning (too early!), so I'm not convinced he's 100% yet. I'm certainly not. Now that I have a day to myself (thank you for being born, Abe Lincoln, and to the school district for decreeing it a paid holiday - there are hidden benefits to a M-W schedule!) my body has decided to give in to the germs instead of allowing for the errand running and housecleaning I've been putting off all weekend. "Slow down, you're moving to fast...got to make the moments last child..." I aspire to learn that lesson someday.

We did take a break Saturday to get out in the sun. We went down to Ardenwood Farm and introduced the little guy to his first BABY GOATS and peacocks... and added some new cows, chickens,sheep, monarchs, ladybugs, and various plant groups to his acquaintances. After all my farming years, I have decided that baby goats are the cutest babies of all. And MY baby wanted to jump right into the pen with them! He also had a lot of fun "weeding" (pulling up all plants in reach and sharing them with us) in a big open field while his daddy and I lounged. His favorite activity was dropping eucalyptus leaves and seed pods into a hollow stump while monarchs whirled around him admist towering eucalyptus trees (ah, California, how we love thee.) I almost put Silas into the stump for a photo op, but realized that there was a tunnel opening into it. I wonder whose head we were dropping all those leaves and pods on?!