Funny Sayings and the Water Park

We went to the Antioch Water Park last week. Abigail had a blast, Olivia was an angel and spent most of the day sleeping, and the fudge bar at the end of the day was a huge hit (and mess). It was Sports Day there and the website said that if you wore a team jersey that you could get $2 off admission. I am always a sucker for a deal, but didn't have any jerseys. So, Abigail and I sported a Bangladesh cricket shirt and Route 66/Winston shirt that Aunt Gail got us from overseas. We got our discount! It was a beautiful day to be at the pool. I had some other friends there that helped watch Abigail while I fed Olivia, which was a huge help. We were in the car about two minutes heading home when Abigail asked to go back to the water park the next day. I included a video of her going down one of the slides at the end of this posting.

Last Thursday evening I had dinner with some of the ladies from our church. Everyone brought a dish and it was so delicious. I left Olivia with Jeremy since it was only going to be a few hours and it was such a quiet, peaceful meal. Jeremy had graciously invited many of the daddies and their kids over to our house to grill out, so when I came home the house looked like an explosion had gone off and there were kids running everywhere screaming. It was a stark contrast to the relaxed mommies that I had just left :) Needless to say, I am very thankful for a husband that lets me get out once in a while!

The next morning Abigail was telling me about some of the kids who were throwing rocks the evening before, and I quote, "Zoe, Preston, and Bobby were having troubles, but I was really great, I didn't do anything bad". Really great...now I doubt that but it was really funny the way she phrased her view of the events.

We have good friends from church that live 10 houses down from us. Last night they invited us over to watch a movie outside on their homemade big screen. We decided to try it with both kids. Olivia slept the whole time on my chest. Mike had set up a tent in the backyard and the idea was that Vincent and Abigail could play in there while we watched the movie 17 Again. Abigail ended up watching more of the movie than I would have thought, so I don't know that we are going to be doing that again. However, she was most impressed with the evening and announced, after reminding me that Daddy got her popcorn three times!, that she liked camping. Well I don't know if it was camping but they did have fun giggling in the tent together.

Last Wednesday I watched Vincent and Abigail for a little bit while his mom had a doctor's appointment. It was warm so I let the kids play in the sprinkler for an hour or so. Vincent has decided he prefers Speedos and had on the smallest Spiderman Speedo that I have ever seen. It was adorable and hilarious. At one point I went in to check on Olivia and came back out to Abigail laughing loudly at a totally naked Vincent throwing his tiny Speedo around the yard. What must our neighbors think! It only came back on after I threatened that he would have to come inside.