Snatching Sunshine

We're still snatching sunshine whenever we can. Ernie was disappointed we couldn't take the time to play at this park when we visited the neighborhood over the weekend for a festival, so we hit the town this morning. GORGEOUS morning! Aunt LoLo and crew ended up in town as well, with nothing to do, so they met us there and the kids had a blast. After a big lunch at home of quinoa, apples, and the graham crackers I made on Sunday my kids slept like the dead for HOURS. I think Mimi would have slept longer than the 3 hours that she did, if my 3:30 student hadn't come.

Mimi ran around the park, climbing whatever she could. Ernie sat in a toy caboose and organized all the random two-year-olds into acorn gathering squads, and she cheered them on as they brought her handfuls. "Yay! Good for you! GOOD JOB!" Ahem. I then frog marched Ernie out of the caboose and told her to get her own darn acorns, never mind that the two-year-olds were happy to do her work for her. (I was gob-smacked when her flip-flop strap was twisted the other day, and she cheerfully told her cousin to take care of it...and her cousin bent down to fix it! Uh...no. No, that's not how this is going to work.)

Since we never got to the library this morning (the other part of our morning plans) we went as a family tonight, and BOY am I glad we did. Wonder Daddy sat with the kids for the entire hour it took me to look up and locate all the books I wanted for circle time the next few weeks. Couldn't have done that by myself!