We sold our brown leather hideaway couch because we don’t really need the extra bed anymore, we wanted to ditch the weight before our next move, it was starting to get a little worn, and we wanted to get some money out of it before it died.
We still had our old L-shaped couch in the basement, so for the time being, we’re just using part of it. The kids LOVED it.
Achievement awards and game balls being handed out after the game.
Now we start the countdown until fall t-ball! Owen can’t wait!!
A t-ball mom that I’ve come to know (and really like) invited me to her GNO at a local wine shop. I met a bunch of new ladies, had some delicious food, and had a good time! This was the picture the host had taken with her camera. My friend, Kate, is the blonde to my left.
The Workhouse Arts Center (just up the road from us) was having their first ever carnival! We’ve been wanting to take the kids to one to see if they like the rides, so figured the timing and location was perfect (we went as soon as they opened for the weekend)! Of course, the tickets are outrageous ($1 each or 48 for $40) and each ride takes 3-5 tickets (!) but since this was their first time, we went in for the whole hog.
We started Katie on this basic car carousel. She seemed to think it was fun but was glad to get off.
Then we walked around to see what else there was, and ended up at the actual carousel. Katie wanted NOTHING to do with getting on a horse and Owen was over the weight limit to ride a horse, so they both sat on the bench. Six dollars for them to ride around in a circle. NOT EVEN ON A HORSE! They didn’t LOVE it but they didn’t HATE it.
All they wanted to do was play the stupid games…which of course take CASH and not the tickets we’d already bought. GRRRR. So we made them try the mini roller coaster. Owen seemed to like it, but Katie DID NOT. She wanted to get off within the first three seconds…but she wasn’t screaming so we just let her ride it out. (Tom was going to ride it with them, but his legs wouldn’t fit!)
So then we said they could go to the games and that was all they needed to hear.
Katie wanted a duck. So $3 later she picked a super cheap plastic sword (you’ll see pics later).
Owen did a shooting game that was over so fast I didn’t even get a chance to record it or even take a picture! (It was a shoot until you knock a cup down game, so I thought it would take a bit longer than six seconds. It didn’t.) Owen didn’t get the choice of toy, but was happy with what he got.
Katie didn’t want to ride ANY more rides so it was all Owen. He didn’t want the ferris wheel (which I had no problem with since I don’t like them) or any of the bigger kid/adult rides. Part of me is glad we don’t have an adrenaline junkie, but I LOVED all those rides so I kind of wanted him to like them…but he IS only six. 🙂
Owen wanted to go in the Monkey House (basically a small mirrored maze, some fun mirrors, and a curly slide) and got a little turned around so Tom went in with him. Cost? $10. TEN DOLLARS. Breathe. Breathe. 🙂
Katie’s sword!
We convinced Owen to try the swing. He seemed to enjoy it at the start, but as it went faster and higher we saw him tilting his head to the side and Tom and I both thought he looked like he was going to puke. He never did, and it turned out it was just from centrifugal force. (We did ask him if he had felt sick at all on the ride—if his belly hurt or if his head felt woozy—and he said no. Phew.)
Of course there’s no refund on tickets and both were pretty much done so we wasted another $8 in tickets on a three-minute train ride. Sigh.
And to spend the remaining $10, Owen went down this slide twice. He did love it, though. 🙂
In the end, their favorite thing? The games. Owen wanted to go back, but we were busy the whole weekend. We will probably skip carnivals until they’re a bit older and may like some of the rides more.
After we left Owen’s morning program, the weather wasn’t too bad so we went to the big playground at the city library for about 1.5 hours.
So I took my nice camera to be sure to get the best photos and video possible…and I pretty much failed at both. You really need the telephoto lens and it’s really too dark to get anything really good.
And then I completely botched the video by not noticing that it was blurry. GRRR. At least you get to hear it.
Katie in her new dress.
Katie off playing with her friend (it’s grainy/blurry because she was so far away). 🙂
Owen’s class is presenting a poem at the Friday Morning Program this week, so he gave us a preview.
One of Owen’s friends from t-ball (the coach’s son—the family that we’ve grown to know) broke his arm last weekend. So Owen came home from school today with this picture he drew for him. 🙂
As soon as we got there, Katie and her friend were two peas in a pod. (They know each other from t-ball games.)
Half of the kids:
We met some more great people, the kids all got along (who doesn’t love a bounce house?!), and the food was amazing! The kids stayed awake until we got home after 10 and even though they looked tired they didn’t want to go to bed!
Our community pool opened yesterday and we made it today. And even though the water was FREEZING, Katie jumped right in!
We didn’t stay too long because of the water temperature but promised the kids we’d come back tomorrow…plus all summer long. 🙂
Today we went to a friend’s BBQ (t-ball/40th birthday party)—they have a super awesome house with a great deck and huge back yard. So I spent the afternoon listening to dance 80s music with a cool breeze blowing while I sat in the shade. The kids all played happily. I drank some wine and ate some good food (the grilling meat smelled divine). I got to visit with friends…and relax. In short, I was in heaven. The kids had a ball, too, playing with all the other kids, running around the yard, playing on the playset, playing air hockey in the basement, and snacking on chips and cake! 🙂
This was actually back on May 17.
Tom was out mowing so neither could go outside. 🙂
We went from this:
To this:
Ahhhh. Much better!
I’d get rid of them completely but then we’d have to pay to put something else in. No thanks. (I hate the other lower bushes, too.) GRRR.
My home quickly her behavior turns. We are having so much fun at the playground and then when he came home and first she couldn’t get her coat hung up…
…and then she couldn’t get her second shoe off.
I have to say, overall, I’m impressed. I did help a bit with when to use lower case vs capitals and I helped sounding out words, but he did all the spelling. (Translation follows.)
They’re at the park playing baseball. Duck hits the ball up the tree. It’s stuck in the tree. They worked together to get the ball down.
When it came back from the teacher, it said “Super handwriting!” 🙂
We got stuck in traffic on the way home from an errand and this happened:
When we finally got home it was very close to the time when I needed to pick Owen up from the bus so I assumed she would wake up when I turned the car off. Nope. Okay then…when I opened my door. Nope. Okay then…she’d have to wake up when I opened the rear liftgate and it beeped. Nope. Okay, seriously? She’d HAVE to wake up when I opened HER door. Nope. Wow, she was really out.
Snoring, even. 🙂
So, I figured I would just leave her in the car (since I could see her from the bus stop and it was a wonderful 70°)—buckled in with the doors open—and I would be back from the bus stop in about 10 minutes. So I opened Owen’s door so she would get cross-ventilation…and of course that’s when she woke up. And she was, as expected after a too-brief nap, a mess. 🙁
