Mutter. Ouch.

Mutter. Ouch.

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Ah, a weekend day with the kids. I've missed that while working hard on the garage. Today the girls and I went to breakfast with my friend (and garage architect) Jason. After breakfast we dropped Jason back at home and we continued on to the Woodland Park Zoo. We had a great time with no plan or schedule - I just followed the kids wherever they wanted to go for three hours. We spent most of our time at the "farm" and in the "habitat loop" which is really a playground. It has a concrete "burrow" that kids can run through and climb on and into and out of. And the area also has a spider web made out of rope that kids can climb and turtle shells they can climb into and slides that are supposed to mimic otter habitat. I think we spent about 90 minutes there.

As we drove away from the house Audrey asked why Carol wasn't coming, too. I said, "Mommy needs some Mommy time." Audrey thought about that for a few minutes and then said, "I think Charlotte needs some Charlotte time."

A few weeks ago for some unknown reason Audrey started referring to Carol as "mutter". I'm not sure what Carol thinks of it (especially since she hears it at least 1000 times a day) but I think it's kinda cute.

Charlotte's main word these days is "ouch", said with two syllables like E.T. She said it to me several times this morning while I was fixing her hair (I don't think I was hurting her, she usually likes it when I fix her hair).

Carol and I have been designing storage for the studio. We used a cabinet system design tool that one can download from Ikea. We designed what she wanted, but we were shocked and depressed when the tool computed the total price. Today we realized we had accidentally selected an expensive finish. When we fixed that the price dropped almost by half. Whew! The cabinets are going to look great and give Carol plenty of flexible storage.