Loving Every Second

What a fantastic week and weekend this has been. I couldnt have asked for a better week. The sun was shining,(quite fiercly some days). We went for walks, we went to the zoo, we went to the park, to a birthday party, we went to hertiage park and we even got the fly a kite! (Kael and Naveahs first time!). We have spend almost the entire 7 days out of the house. In between the outings ive been keeping myself busy with birthday presents and fathers day presents, cleaning the house and squeezing in time to watch a movie or two with Evan.

I got to watch Dawsyn one day this week and rather than staying in the house I decided to take them out to the park by the house. Before we left I had put Naveahs hair in pigtails (way too cute) and so Dawsyn wanted me to put them in her hair too. Kael of course could care less, he was already half way down the sidewalk! I only wish I had remembered to pack my camera cause it was the cutest thing youd ever see once they were all piled into the wagon. Its a two seater and Dawsyn wanted to ride in it too. So there we were. Naveah in one seat, Kael in the other, and Dawsyn sitting down in the middle leaning back against Kael and kicking her feet up on Naveah. 'Heaven' was written all over her face. We met up with a neighbor of mine at the park and played with her kids for a little while then it was time for a tasty treat. We piled them back into the wagon and went and got some slurpees. The Kael and Dawsyn both hadnt napped that day so I pounded them full of pure sugar....oh the burn out was wonderful. In bed at 7:45pm...asleep at 7:47pm. Nice.

The next day I took them for another walk to a new park. Another one of my neighbors (literally right next door) told me about a park by the ridge in douglasdale so I thought we should check it out. There was a digger there that Kael would have played with the entire time but it was too big for him. We ended that day off with a cool down in the tide pool!

So now its Friday and looking like a good day to go to the Zoo! Taking the kids to the zoo this time was extra specially fun cause Nana got to come with us. Shes been looking forward to coming with us for a long time now. He had lots of fun running around with her showing her all the things hes learned from the zoo. It was a fantastic day to go to the zoo too because the animals were super active! Ive never seen this much action at the zoo ever! The monkeys were indulging in the attention from people at the windows. Swinging across vines and making funny faces at the kids. The were face to face sometimes! Kael was hysterical, in a good way. I thought this kid was gunna pass out he was laughing so hard! The Black bear was also out and about. Ive never seen him do anything but sleep. He was passing in his den coming right up close to the window! Kael was sitting in his wagon just yelling "BEEERRRR, BEEEERRR!!!". There were a ton of peacocks out. And where ever there was a male, there was a female close by with their little babies guiding them through the crowds. We even got to see the Lions move....to their OTHER sleeping patch to which they layed down in the tall grass never to be seen again. We ended the day with a gigantic ice cream cone.

It was Cosette's birthday on Saturday so we headed to her birthday party that afternoon. Kael had fun playing with all the kids and Naveah was having fun seeing who she could wrap around her little fingers. Once Kaels spotted the sand pit though it was all over. He spent the entire night in that sandpit. It was so fun watching him play in there. Looks like im gunna have to hurry up and set ours up!

Today we went to heritage park. Evan Aunt had bought us seasons passes for Christmas and I thought it was time to take advantage. First we went for a ride on the Steam Engine where we were dropped off at the boat and took a little cruise around the reserviore. Kael and Naveah both loved the boat. When we got back we hopped back onto the train to go to the first station to pick up our stroller then headed off to the rides! Kael had so much fun on the rides! I wish there were more of them. Even Naveah got to go on the merry-go-round. She had a permanent grin on her face once the horse she was sitting on started moving. The only bad part of the rides was the ferris wheel. I thought It would be a fun one to take Kael on, so Evan stayed with Naveah and I took him on the ride. He was enjoying it at first, but then it was taking so long to load all the seats that he just wanted off. "all done" he kept saying. By the time the ride FINALLY got started he wasnt in the best mood. He started whining a little when the ride was going down. We didnt even make it around twice before they just stopped the ride, unlocked the cross bar and gestured for us to get off. "I take it were done then?" I said as I helped Kael hop off. "oh well he was crying so I thought he wanted off." She says back to me. I quickly explained that he wasnt crying, it was a whimper he was just unsure of what was happening. So then she tries to tell me to get back on the ride but by this point Kael was half way to Daddy and I was a little ticked. I mean seriously! The ride hadnt even been going for 3 seconds and he whimpered, WHIMPERD! All I had to do was tell him that its okay and he would have been fine but I didnt even get a chance to get the words out before the ride came to a halt! gr. But thats okay, we still had a fun day. After that we just walked around and looked at the chickens and the roosters then headed home. It was still early when we finished dinner so Evan wanted to go to the park and fly some kites I bought for Kael a little while ago. We loaded them up in the wagon and headed to the school yard just down the street. What an awesome park! I cant wait to take them there again! Theres a spaceship and 'rock climbing' walls. Theres even this thing that has little cars inside that you can race! While Kael was off playing Evan and I set up the kites and got them up and going. Naveah kept pointing at them and shrieking. She thought they were pretty cool. It was hard to get Kael away from the playground to fly the kites but we finally did and he loved it. After that we headed back home and cooled off with some creamsicles. Yum.

What a fun weekend. I love the summer there is so much to do! Kael loves to be outdoors and Naveah is pretty much up for everything. I cant wait to start another week like this.