Sunday, April 26, 2009

Happy (Belated) Earth Day!

Yesterday, our little community held its Earth Day celebration, a tad belatedly. As Matthew, good man that he is, stayed home to tend to our bit of earth and mow the yard, Dory, Mama P and I went.



Dory started here but after a wee bit of fussing...



...moved to here.



The day was gorgeous, the sun blazing over head and immediately I realized we might have a small issue, i.e. sun + anyone in my gene pool= Trouble. As Dory is not a fan of hats...



... except for waving them around, this can be problematic.

But help was only a few booths away! Supermama Kristy (mother and proprietor of Zoonique Baby, a truly wonderful local cloth diaper store) came to our rescue. Wielding a bottle of baby sunscreen, she let us lather Dory up. Once Little One was safely covered in this natural lotion (and smelling quite lovely) I could turn my attention to the delectable cloth diaper display. (Sidenote: we cloth diaper, Matthew and I are huge fans, and one day I will write more about this and all its fantastic elements. For now, I'll show you that cloth diapering is not only...



... economical and environmentally green, but also incredibly fun, particularly when dealing with a store like Zoonique that has an absolute riot of prints, colors, patterns and styles.)





How beautiful is that display? You can't even take it all in can you? Besides many varities of cloth diapers that she makes herself (and that we love- we're a big fan of her fitteds), she makes bibs, wet bags, burp cloths, shoes... the woman is a zenith in the cloth diaper field. And she's here, in East Tennessee. How cool is that?!

There were many, many groups, many, many vendors and many, many people there, along with some pretty cool bands.







But once Dory started to look like this...



we headed home. She slept on the walk back to the car, slept through the transfer to the car seat, slept the five minute drive home... Wee One was wiped OUT. The adults, admittedly, were looking a bit sluggish too. Everyone was ready for a nap and already I had plans of climbing back into bed, cuddling up with Miss Girl and having a long, leisurely rest...

Except...



...what the...



is she...


wide awake?

I don't know how it happened, but after two hours in all that noisy, interesting chaos and a five minute sleep in the car, she woke up refreshed and ready to get going. There were no naps in Adultland that day.

Even with that said, it was a very good day here in the Mojo household.

Also, it's important to mention, besides taking care of the lawn, Matthew vacuumed the house, did laundry, put away diapers and was still ready to crack open a beer and turn on the NFL draft at four. That, in my opinion, is a Man's Man.  Thinking back on that, I would have to upgrade yesterday to a great Mojo day.

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