Lets Call It Park Week :)

Well we have been keeping busy this week again, enjoying the summer weather. Some of the days this week even had a bit of a cool breeze, so we have really loved that! We have also been recovering from our exciting week and weekend past and trying not to be too depressed that no one else is coming to visit us for a while.

Monday: Mostly got Lorelei caught up on some more sleep (she took three naps each day instead of two Sun, Mon and Tues) and made a grocery store run! So glad we can just walk over there. :)

Tuesday: We also live very close to a little outdoor shopping area which has a big pet store called Animal Jungle and also one called Puppyville. Animal jungle had pretty much everything except puppies and kitties. Lorelei loved the fish, guinea pigs and bunnies. They even have a little monkey there, which is also fun to watch. Then of course Puppyville was a huge hit as that seems to be her favorite animal of all at the moment. She was thrilled to see the puppies and some even came right up to us. She says "da" every time she sees a dog anywhere we go and gets very excited. Then that afternoon we went swimming in the big pool.

Wednesday: MOMS Club meets every Wed for playgroup. This trip was conveniently the park right next to our apt complex. I was very thankful to have a walking buddy with my friend, Sara, and her daughter, Lily. The girls even try to hold hands as we are walking with their strollers! We enjoyed meeting up with some other ladies there. Lorelei of course wants me to walk her everywhere, but it was fun having her interested in the playground equipment. It will be a great place for us to go more often in the fall when she can walk and I wont roast so much on the walk there!

Thursday: Here is where the really nice breeze came in so I just had to take Lorelei to the park again. We drove to a different park (realized in amazement it had been almost a week since Lorelei had had to ride in her carseat! and boy is the car a mess from our history day) Lorelei enjoyed the swings, as usual, as well as walking!

Friday: This time we went to the Botanical Gardens for MOMS Club. (That kinda counts as a park right?) We had a water day at the children's garden there. There are small fountains that kids love to play in. I, of course, got to play in them as well this time! Lorelei especially liked playing with the leaves there...something about anything you are not supposed to put in your mouth right? We had a good time with our usual friends, Sara and Lily (what would we do without them!?), and one other lady who came with her two kidos. We also took a quick trip to the butterfly garden before the girls were totally out. Then Lorelei fell asleep on the way home and naturally seems to think that a 20 min nap in the car ride home is enough sleep! I think she is finally fading though. :)

Oh I should mention we also had another sad moment when we sold Brad's pickup. We love that thing but just realized how much gas it was eating up! He now has a small car that he is taking to work which gets GREAT gas mileage.

Lows: visitors being gone, goodbye to the pickup

Highs: beautiful weather, getting the lost DVD in the mail so we CAN watch Ross say PIVOT (Sara you need to borrow that one), getting excited for Amanda's wedding in less than a month!, accidentally giving Audry the number to a petting zoo/pony farm for her to call for a carriage for Amanda's wedding...glad she got a laugh out of it though!

This is the quote I had handy that Heather and I saw in a store: "Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, its about learning to dance in the rain."