Girls’ Weekend

My sister and her daughter were in town last weekend, so we got to have plenty of girly fun. We started out with shopping on Friday. I kind of went nuts and got dresses for the girls and quite a few clothes for them, too. When we were all done shopping, we went and got pedicures. This was the first time my mother or I had ever had one!

Mother and Beth

Eleanor was curious about everything going on. She asked tons of questions as they prepped the pedicures. There was an older gentleman helping with the pedicures, and I don’t think he spoke much English. He mostly smiled at Eleanor as she peppered him with all her questions. Later, when I was having my pedicure, a young lady came in to have her fake nails filled. Eleanor pulled up a chair next to her and asked questions every step of the way. Luckily, everyone was very patient with her, and I don’t think she annoyed anyone.

The little girls had their nails and toes painted (except Phaedra, who just got her fingernails painted). They were really quite good while waiting for our pedicures to be done.Eleanor seemed concerned at first when she saw the pointy pin the lady used to paint the flowers. She asked if it would hurt her. But when she saw how it was used, she was fine with it.

She got flowers on both her thumbs and on two fingers.

Phaedra sat on my lap while her nails were painted. She didn’t need comfort; she just needed help holding still. So I didn’t get any pictures of her while they were being painted. This is how her nails turned out. She had flowers on each thumb (her sucking thumb got ruined right away), and dots across the tips of each finger.

After our long day, we went back to my house for some pizza. We turned on a movie for the girls to relax while we got dinner ready. They looked so cute, all snuggled up to Grandpa on the couch.

Our fun weekend didn’t end there. The next day, we all went to see Tangled in the theater. It was Phaedra’s first time in the theater, and she did great. She sat with me or Grandma the whole time, and when she got nervous, she would tell me, “Hold me tight, Mommy!” We’ve been hearing favorite movie quotes from the girls ever since.

On Sunday, we played games with dominoes and cards at Grandma’s. We had so much fun with Beth and Grace in town. We hope they can come back soon!