plan b

it's warm here. and the splash pad is our favorite hang out in the summer. emma jumped with joy when i told her that we were heading here for the afternoon. i packed everything up...snacks, drinks, towels, toys, camera...dressed everybody. and we were off. i thought buddy would be happy pushing his little dump truck in the shallow. i was wrong. so. so. wrong. if i picked him up once to put his back in the shallow, i picked him up a thousand times.

for the short amount of time that we were there, this was my view...

i was chasing after our quick little dude and never sat down. at first i was worried about his knees, but they were being covered by his swim trunks. about thirty minutes in and completely exhausted, i picked him up again, and the tops of his little feet were bleeding from dragging across the splash pad floor.

we needed to leave, but had just gotten there. i feared that emma would flip.

but she didn't.

she saw his little feet and agreed that we needed to go home. she's grown up so much.

so, we loaded everything up and went home.

where o where will our hang out be this summer?

i need a plan b.

and fast.

as for soccer...emma's had two more practices and they went beautifully! she loves to run "duper duper" fast, and we've managed to convince her that it's okay if she doesn't score a "bunny trick."

ahhhh...thank goodness.