Yesterday was a pretty good day. We went and flew kites.
This time, Ashlin wanted to fly one, the blue one, for a bit. She had fun! Teagan was very good with her kite, like last time at my aunt’s house, though we couldn’t get them together and up fast enough. Patience isn’t one of her strong suits. Yet. We’re working on that.
up
Ashlin did really well. She flew her kite for at least 10 minutes before she decided that she needed to do something else and went off to kick a ball. Or play in the road, which we kept asking her not to do. Thankfully, it’s mostly a service road.
water break
Friends met up with us and everyone had fun, flying a kite, kicking a ball, chasing after one another. Playing with rocks. Picking flowers.
I hailed the ice cream truck, and we all had some ice cream. Even Stu and I. They had some lemon lime Popsicle dot things. Very yummy. I feel that I’m not au courant with ice cream offerings. This shall be remedied toute de suite.
Dirty Ashlin
Kids started breaking down after that, so we all went our separate ways.
Since they were filthy, we had them walk around the house and put them in the sprinkler. There was no way I was going to let that into the house. Yikes. Stu got the homemade sprinkler out and hooked it up while I pushed them on the swings.
Fried Ashlin
As we stripped them down for water play, I realized my big mistake. I had forgotten to lube them up with sunscreen before we went kite flying. They were a bit crispy.
Burnt Teagan
Oops!
After a bit of water play, (Ashlin asked for the water table too), Ashlin went up for a nap, and Teagan was able to watch a movie. We were so hot we decided not to grill at all. Take out McDonalds was the winner. I ended up needing to wake Ashlin up when Stu got back. (She was on her second two hour plus nap). He came home with a Strawberry Lemonade for me. Such a sweet thought. And it was lovely, not too sweet. I made the mistake of giving the girls a taste, and they wanted more and more of. I need to learn not to share with them! At least if I want to eat or drink something.
We had gone for fireworks Friday night we felt no urgency to go again. We decided that we’d just go to the show on Saturday and put the girls to bed. Not much later, Stu and I see fireflies out in the back yard. Then we start hearing fireworks out the front. Not too surprising, one of our neighbors sells fireworks. So we expected a pretty normal back yard show. But this was different. It was amazing. I went and got Teagan. She was asleep, but I woke her up and brought her downstairs and gave her to Stu. Ashlin was awake with her eyes wide when I went to get her. Carried her down and we watched huge, professional fireworks just up the hill.
Amazing. Not sure how someone didn’t get in trouble for this show.
Teagan was sleepy, and the fireworks were loud, so she asked to go back to bed. Ashlin needed a break too, but she was too fascinated to actually stay inside. Her favorite were the purple yellow ones.
Teagan slept through them.
My crazy girl.
It was a good day!
Whatever! 