This last week I suddenly realized that I had Friday off work because of Good Friday. Being a fairly unusual holiday, J was working and I completely forgot about it. So I decided to turn it into “Clare-Mom Day” and spent the whole day playing with my favorite toddler. It was from being Good Friday to Best Friday – we had a ball.

In the morning we went to Tiny Tots Storytime at a local library, where we read books, sang songs and played with other “tots.” After lunch and nap, we took advantage of the sunny weather and went for a looooong hike at Tryon Creek. The hike went a little far for some short legs, but we had a good time nonetheless. It was fun to watch Clare run around in the woods and do typical kid stuff – throwing rocks, picking up sticks, climbing on boulders, walking on logs, etc. It was hard to get a picture of her looking at the camera, since she spent most of her time running and looking everywhere but at me. When I asked her to “look at the camera and give me a pretty smile” she would throw a half-hearted, eye-rolling kind of smile to appease me for about half a second and then run after a robin or something. I’ll spare you all of the pictures I have of her whipping her head away. We topped it off with ice cream sundaes and a visit with Grandma and Grampa. All around, a lovely day.

“Stick!”

With her “flow-lees” (flowers)