Picking Peaches and Plums

I have no energy. Funny, since I just returned from a two day energy and enviorment workshop. I left Sunday night and returned home to you tonight. We had dinner and I got to go on our nightly walks with the neighbors.
I forgot to write about Nonna coming up to "pick berries" but since Baugher's strawberry season is over and they do not have pick-your-own of any other berry, Nonna came up to pick peaches and plums. Yum! We hd a wonderful afternoon riding out to the orchard on the tractor and picking peaches and plums from the trees. Some were even low enough for you to grab. And my how you grabbed and ate. You seem to instinctively know to bite the fruit. By the time I had picked 3 or 4 peaches from a nearby tree and turned around, you had already eaten 1/2 a peach! Once you saw Nonna using the ladder to reach the juicy plums on the top of the trees, you wanted to go up too. The three of us went out to lunch at Baugher's resturant and ate ice cream for dessert. At only 15 months you are so involved in almost all the activies we do. You were picking fruit, carrying the basket (until it got too heavy) and generally just participated.

We had our first incident with hitting outside our home. At Ms. Patti's on Monday, another girl would not pay attention to you. You apparently tried over and over again to "talk" to her and get her attention. When she didn't respond to you, you took off your shoe and hit her with it! Goodness. Of course this other girl became upset at your offense. I am told, you were very remorseful and blew kisses at her to apologize. So in every situation we have to take something away: bad= hitting other people not your family. Good= you seemed to understand that you hurt someone and you were sorry. Sigh. Our hitting saga continues.

I am tired. You are snug in bed after a successful bath and books. How constant your presence and schedule is in my life. How grateful I am to return home to you and everything be just as it should be as I left it two night ago.