We've taken several trips to the park, but the girls really had a good time when the 4 of us had a "garage sale day," visiting neighborhood sales, buying cookies and lemonade, and letting them spend their very own money on little treasures. We had a little picnic at this park with a giant slide that goes down a huge hill...even though we were approached by a policeman who was looking for a biting dog on the loose! Sadie and Josie immediately started running around warning people about the "rabied dog" in the park. :) We visited Captain Willie the Great Lakes Pirate one day at the library and learned a lot about the Great Lakes and water safety... but not so much about pirates! The girls (including Adelaide) thoroughly enjoyed the "AArrghs!" and dancing the chicken dance with a goofy guy dressed up like a pirate. It was fun, I have to admit.
We went to see the fireworks on the 4th and the girls had a great time waving their "Merican flags," blowing their crazy sounding patriotic horns and singing "Oh beautiful for spacious skies for amber waves of GWAIN!" Josie made her very own red white and blue necklace out of this really cool artsy clay that we baked in the oven, too. Our evening was pretty relaxed and laid back, and Jesse did a great job zipping us through the traffic. We got home in a record five minutes!
On the Monday after the 4th, we bought the girls this fantastic bunk bed, though it has so many components I hesitate to call it that. We got a GREAT deal on it, and the girls are loving it. However, we had to switch rooms...now they are in what used to be the school room and the school room is now in what used to be their bedroom. There was MUCHO moving and organizing and switching around that whole week. I am still not completely done, but their room looks pretty cool and they like it a lot... even though Sadie (who is supposed to be on the full bed on top) usually ends up sleeping on the bottom twin bed with Josie. The first night was scary for them, being upstairs for the first time all night, and when Jesse went to check on them he started laughing when he found Josie sleeping on the floor in the doorway under the hall light. Sadie loves playing on the top bunk and cracks up every time I yell up at her, "HEY! Rapunzel! Let down your hair!"
Jesse has taken the girls fishing a few times (Sadie got to go perch fishing out on Lake Erie for the first time this year) already, and judging from the triumphant looks on the icky stinky fishy faces that come home from the pond, it looks like it's going to happen a lot more before the summer is over! The whole family went to see the Bubble Lady, who was NOT a lady who lives in a bubble, but a lady who does all kinds of crazy stuff WITH bubbles. She was playing to a packed house, and our girls ended up right in the front. Jesse and I even had fun... it's so much fun to see a whole group of kids burst into spontaneous squeals and applause when they see a giant - and I mean GIANT - bubble. The best part for them, of course, was when they got to stand INSIDE a giant bubble.
Poor Adelaide took a literal "nose dive" and tripped on the driveway a couple of weeks ago, doing a FACE PLANT right onto the pavement. The poor kid didn't even have any scratches on her hands from trying to catch herself... she landed RIGHT on her nose. I have never seen her cry so hard over a boo boo before, so I know it hurt! At first I thought she had knocked her teeth out, she was so bloody and upset. She looked AWFUL for about a week and a half, but has miraculously healed since then... now her nose is just a bit shiny, which is actually kind of becoming on her. :) >
