Saturday morning was the usual hustle to accomplish Zumba, gymnastics, and a general straightening of the house... On the way to gymnastics I grabbed apples for Ethan and myself. Ethan was ticked at first, he wanted crackers. After finally giving in and eating the apple, he was delighted. "We eat apples all the time because they're healthy, huh mom. They're a healthy fruit. Like oranges too. We need apples, oranges, and even water to stay healthy. And we need rest. We need rest because otherwise the tears will come up into our body and come out." I love his interpretation of life.
After naps we piled the boys and the dogs into the car and headed out to my parents. It was a miraculously somewhat sunny and dry day, so we had to make the most of it.
We had a little happy hour outside, played some ball.... Helped Upa with his chores...
Pretended to drive places on the tractor...
Until they found the spider web....
Ethan took everyone on hikes through the forest...
He was a good tour guide - singing songs the whole way....
The only problem was that he is so much shorter than we are....
The simple path for him - not so simple for the rest of us...
We played on the swings....
And even played with bubbles - dumping out two whole bottlefuls in the process....
It was so nice to be outside and not be WET! When we came home, we decided to go for one more outdoor excursion and took the dogs for a walk. All was well when Ethan was helping to walk Duke....
But then Lucas wanted a turn with Duke, as Kenya is a bear to walk....
This let to a bit of a tantrum, one so dramatic that Brian and I could not help but laugh....
Didn't really help matters, but what can you do? Such a nice day. Can we please have some more?!!!
1 comment:
I can identify with poor Lucas, I was a blankie kid too. Sooooo funny about the sweater, smart kid just knows what he needs to get his rest :)
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