Strange and Perfect Days

We used to think it was kinda cute when Juliet would seek Ryley out after bed time. After all, it meant that Juliet missed her! We would find her curled up with our sleeping little girl, and we would take pictures to show Ryley in the morning.



Until one night at 10 p.m., a sleepy little girl woke up to a puddle left by an excited little puppy! So disgusting and definitely not something I wanted to deal with at that hour, especially with a whiny Ryley looking on. Since then, Ryley's fear of the dark has suddenly been dissuaded, and she allows us to close her bedroom door after we tuck her in. ;-)

We worked on this puzzle for over a month...definitely the hardest and most unique puzzle we've ever put together. And now the puzzle table is put away until next winter. I'm glad to see it go!!




Following the advice of our veterinarian, we took our anti-social puppy to a dog park on Saturday. It took time, but she finally warmed up to some of the other puppies.




Ryley classifies her days into Ry Days (days that I have to work but that Ryan is off), Girl Days (days when I am off but Ryan has to work), and our favorite: Moore Days. And Saturday was a Moore Day. Yay! After swimming lessons and the dog park, we headed downtown to the Denver Aquarium.




We had so much fun. It reminded us of being on vacation!! Of course, Ryan is a science nerd, and Ryley follows suit. And the ocean fascinates me, too. It was actually a pretty impressive place, much more so than Epcot's ocean exhibit, which certainly disappointed us back in November. Ryley and Ryan were even able to pet a stingray!



After the aquarium, we decided to explore downtown Denver a little bit. Ryan showed Ryley how to skip rocks in the Platte River....




And then we went down to the Capitol building, but there were so many homeless people lurking around that we felt a bit unnerved and decided to cut our visit short.




Trying to ring this liberty bell....



We finished off with dinner at Beau Jo's pizza, which was even more divine than I remembered it being.

All in all, a perfect day....exactly what we needed as a family. I only wish we had money to do special things like this every weekend. :-) However, in all the relaxing, I forgot to do laundry, and there were no clean clothes for church on Sunday morning. Oh, well. Such is life.