Me and My Shadows

My ladies were safely returned to me this afternoon!! Hurray!!!

They were both a little worse for wear and tear but also glad to be home. Shelley has been so busy with her current project at the studio, and now with helping her brother move that she's hardly taken any time for herself. So when she got home she asked if she could just go out for a drive by herself for a while and enjoy some quiet alone time. "Of course" says I, even though I desperately wanted her to sit on the couch so I could just 'look' at her for a bit.

I guess her drive time was good because she stopped by the grocery store on her way home and got us lovely treats like yummy garlic bread and cheeses.

In the scant hours they were away (which seemed like an eternity to me) Gracie has managed to adapt her wobbly-walk into a full-steam-ahead walk, nearly a run. I gave her a bath this evening when she got up from her nap and she decided that she wanted to play a splashing game. She has these little bath toys...



...they act like squirt guns when you fill them. She knows this and decides to hand me one and as if to say 'let's play squirt'...and so we did. She cackled hysterically...until it was time to wash her hair which put an end to the fun time and led into the unhappy baby time.

I know I sound sappy (and redundant) but I just love my wife and daughter. They just put me over the moon with joy. I'm so glad they're home!