1. If you could switch places for one day with anyone in the world who would it be and why?
2. What do your children like best about visiting their grandparents?
3. What kind of grandmother do you think you will be (many years from now of course) and are you looking forward to it?
We decided we needed to spend some time just relaxing at the library. There is a nice park nearby and we could also spend some time there. What was interesting to me was the girls went through, picked some movies to check out and then they were ready to go.
Imagine their surprise when I told them we were staying. It was as if I just told them we were spending the day locked up in a room with nothing in it.
This really saddened me. I loved the library growing up. It has so much more to offer than movies and a few books. I was determined to show them. We headed off to the kids section and I browsed thru some books. I grabbed a book on horses, cats, optical illusions, and some hidden pictures.. We sat and just browsed thru the pictures .. checking to see if we could see whatever wash hidden in them. Anna loves animal so she was checking out that book.. She is also really good with the 3D optical illusions. Kate finally showed some interest in some of the books as well as some coloring pics that were set up on the table.
I left them for a bit to check something out in the adult section. When I came back Anna was having a Librarian help her search for more books on optical illusions. They also had a board game area for the kids to play. We didn’t get to go there though.. Not if they still wanted to go the the park. I actually had to tell them it was time to go. They were finally having a good time.
Here is a video of them at the park.
A few (ok..more than a few) pics..
The girls got hungry so we walked over to the local market and grabbed a few fruits to snack on while waiting for hubby.
He decided we should go out for chinese..
We ended the evening with Ice cream from Dairy Queen..
I think Kate is getting tired of me taking pictures.. LOL
Last Thursday was a typical day around the house. As usual, the girls slept in late. They were able to spend about an hour in the pool. Our goal was to have shepherd’s pie for dinner. After dinner the girls wanted to go to the local pet store. Kate wanted to see a chinchilla and a flying squirrel.. our pet store has both.
The dinner got ruined.. thanks to a fly that decided it would be a good idea to land in a pan of ground beef as it was browning. The fly was not discovered til after I started to transfer it to the baking dish. That was the end of that idea for us. We packed up and headed out to get pizza instead.
After the pizza we went over to the pet store to find that they close at 7. :( Sad girls they were. So we headed over to PetSmart. However, there are not many to look at there.
After that we heading to Walmart for essentials.. David had asked if we could pick him up around 9 - 9:30.. but he wasn't answering his text.. His boss makes them silence the phones.. So we sat outside the military gates (subase) til 10pm waiting. Turns out he had promised to help someone move and was hoping we would wait for his call before we headed out to get him. Sometimes the cleaning up takes longer then expected. I have to say.. sitting out there waiting.. I was getting nervous. He wasn't answering and the worse things were going through my head. I had no clue if he was in there.. or if he had started walking .. maybe his phone died and he couldn't call us.. ugh.. just bad thoughts. I was grateful he was fine. He must have gotten a ride home because I checked his room Sat morning and was in there sleeping. It is extremely rare for him to make it home.
After we got home.. we watched Percy and the Lightning Thief. It was a good 1am before the girls got into bed. Kate decided she will stay for a 3rd week but that she has to go home after that. LOL.
Last Wednesday the girls wanted to make goo. Goobleck is another name for it. Have you every heard of it. It is fun.. yet very very messy!
After we were done with the goo.. we had to get rinsed off. The kids heard the ice cream truck so the girls went running to the corner, hoping he would come by..
Kate was such a sweetie! She got 4.00 from David and decided to buy Anna and Ethan a treat. She made sure Ethan could get the Spiderman pop.
Then it was finally time to go swimming. We found the little frog below hiding on the inside flap of the top of the pool.
Ethan wanted to show me how he could go under the water..
While Anna continued to enjoy playing with the frog.
We decided to spend the last day of vacation, mining for gems. The girls really enjoyed it. They were directed to a cave where they had 10 minutes to dig in the sand looking for any gems they could find.
After they were done digging, they were sent to identify the gems. This part was tricky!
After the gems they went and checked the sand art bottles..
We also enjoyed looking around in the shop. They have alot of neat things here.. Kate picked out a shark’s tooth and Anna chose a worry stone.
We ended the day with some roasted marshmellows and glo sticks.
