Conference Weekend-Sunday's Edition

I love the cool, crisp fall weather and it is definitely here. It's cool in the evenings and getting down in the 30's at night but I love it when the sun's out and it's warm with a cool breeze. Not to mention the fall colors on the trees. I think I post about it every year but I really do love the changing of the leaves. When I was little my family would often pile into our big maroon station wagon with the wood paneling and drive through a canyon with the windows open. One of my favorite family excursions!

We didn't get in the car, Tate is currently not a fan of driving or rather sitting in his car seat. He pry wouldn't mind driving if I let him wander freely, or maybe even turned him so he was facing frontward. We did however take a walk Sunday afternoon taking advantage of the rural life that lives up the hill. With Tate strapped on John's chest and Tyler in the jogger and McKenna (our big girl) on foot we went in search of the Kangaroo. Yes you read right, one day on my run I ran past a house and in the yard I saw what looked like a statue of a Kangaroo. It was small and quite random and I thought how funny it would be if it was real. As the thought left my head the statue took a hop and turned and hopped out of site. I was floored and wished I had a camera knowing John wouldn't believe me. He has since stalked the house in hopes of seeing it on his drive home and one day finally saw it, and then took McKenna up to see it on one of their dates.

Unfortunately the Kangaroo was not out, but the sun was, the cows were out, we stopped and fed a horse some grass and pet him and enjoyed the cool fall breeze. Needless to say everyone slept quite well after we got home and had some lunch.

Life a week at a time.

The days are slipping by all to quickly and I can't believe I'm about to comment on the weather AGAIN! Mostly because it feels as though Fall as come and the leaves are already changing.

Things are progressing around here, mostly in the form of Tate who is now scooting himself around the room. If he catches me walking by him he's been known to dive at me to grab my feet. Smart lil fella.

Things we've done this week:

Monday we started Swim Lessons at the Y. They are actually every M/W. Leslie set us up so that at 6 pm Tyler and I go to a Mommy and Me swim class where we play and dance in the water. at 6:20 McKenna and Lil Miss C go to their class, Tyler and I get out at 6:25, shower, take tate while Leslie and Tanner go to their Mommy & Me class. At 6:50 I pick up McKenna and Lil Miss C-shower them and get them ready to go. Leslie and Tanner finish at 7, shower and then we pile in the car and head home. It makes for a busy hour-it's very effecient though. Thanks Leslie.

Tuesday we went to the Park in Bonney Lake and saw the Bubble Man. He was pretty amazing making bubbles out of "Really cheap toys" or junk as some might call it. :) He was also pretty good at sliding political jabber in there. The Pierce County School district give free lunches to kids 1-18-at the schools and at the parks, so we've been taking advantage of that as often as we can. As we were heading back to the car I was pushing Tate and I realized just how big and long the kid has grown. I realized my baby is not an infant anymore-my how the time is flying. John now has Tuesday's free so he finished the flooring of the deck and then we all ran to the library that evening and then onto the park for a picnic dinner. We love being able to spend time with our Dad, especially at the park.

Wednesday morning we went to a toddler Gym class that is held in the gymnastics room. 0-5 year olds are free to pretty much run around and the kids had a blast. There is a huge pit with big square sponge blocks in it, a long runway tampoline and lots of mats to climb on. For privacy reasons there won't be any pictures of this or swim classes, so you'll just have to use your imagination and I'll hope that my memory will somehow hold up.

Thursday we went to the school for lunch-I got to go running after a 3 week lapse--felt like I was just starting again after a year. Thursday night John took McKenna out for a "Special Date". They went out for ice cream cones and then looked at Barbies and Patio furniture. :) An hour after they left Tyler realized they were gone and asked where McKenna was. When I told her she started frantically calling, "McKenna, I need my sister, I need my sister." So to distract her we climbed in the wagon and I strapped Tate on the front of me and we went and picked Blackberries. The first of them are ripe and oh so YUMMY!!!

Today, Friday has been pretty chill-we went for lunch again and then onto Costco. Usually it's a pretty smooth trip and the girls are really cooperative and good. It was not one of those trips-but you can't win them all. Makes you really appreciate the times they do listen. (Don't worry Dad-I still have my Happy!)