Sunday, March 30, 2014

Saturday Fun

Friday was a really long day for us.

Ally and I left for school at 730. I picked her and Erik up at 3pm and took them to swimming lessons. They swam for over an hour. Then Erik came over to our house after swimming to play for an hour until it was time to go to a family event at their school. We met Erik’s mom at school at 6pm. We had dinner at the pot luck at school, socialized, and had fun until 745 when we finally came home. Ally was exhausted, but went to sleep really well at 830. Which is great, since the night before she didn’t fall asleep until 10pm!

Needless to say we had one very tired girl on Saturday. After some her usual 2 Saturday morning TV shows and art we had breakfast and headed out to our town’s winter farmer’s market. We’ve heard really good things about it. It was pretty fun, a nice morning for a walk, and we stopped at the park on the way home.

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If there are monkey bars at a park Ally is happy. This one also had a tire swing!

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Becky set up a PB & J tasting plate for us using honey peanut butter. One piece was PB & blackberry jam, One was just the PB and the third piece was PB and Ally’s typical strawberry jam. Turns out the black berry jam was a hit – and after eating all of the tasting pieces Ally had a sandwich with PB and blackberry jam. I gloated a bit since that jam was my idea.

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After lunch we sorted books and did laundry. These were daunting tasks. We emptied Ally’s bookcase and re-organized it and took about 30 books out of circulation to make room for new ones. Afterwards, Ally was so tired she decided she did not want to go to the movies – we had offered to take her to the new Muppet movie that is in the theaters. But she cried and said no – she was too tired to go and enjoy it. I suggested a movie at home, and so she watched Frozen for the 11th time. It is hard to argue with a girl who knows her limits. She is just so exhausted from the past two days she can’t really do much of anything. About 3 minutes after the movie was over and the tv turned off she was in tears again “because I don’t know what to do” after a couple attempts at coloring and a game I finally suggested a walk in the rain. She readily agreed and she and Becky are outside now.

I hope bedtime goes well. Its only 415 now and we need to make it until 7pm. For the record we did suggest a nap, but Ally does not like naps, and frankly they do make it harder for her to go to sleep. I have a feeling there will be more TV in our evening than we would like. Oh well.

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