lazy weekend

We did a lot of this this past weekend. Everyone was tired. Included Annika with a high fever that turned into Roseola.

Fun in the yard

I had a little fun the other day just in our back yard. The kids were in good moods and the weather was beautiful.
It's hose season finally. I think Patrick was beginning to think we didn't hear him when he asked daily from the garage if we could play with the hose yet. With a late spring, he had a lot of waiting to do. Well, now that it is finally warmer, he won't put it down. The only problem is that Annika has now caught the hose fever. Sharing doesn't go so well.

So instead of sharing, I just took Annika for more photos! I'm glad she still puts up with me.

Even Patrick was being a ham for me!

oh and meet Patrick's new "boots" A great Saver's find for me, little did I realize how much he would love them!

Luckily I got most of these before dinner!

Her after dinner hair, was just wild!


And we just finished up our last week of Gymnastics. This was the first class that Patrick did all on his own. Friends Shay and Addy joined him as well. Super fun!

Oxbow Park

We have this local park in our area. The funny thing is that after 10 years, I have only been here twice and Ryan only once. Did you know it is also a zoo? Yeah a zoo in our neck of the woods. Pretty cool.

Patrick thought it was pretty cool as well. He loved watching the otters and the hawks facinated him (I almost said birds, but my dad would kill me if he knew I referred to them that way)

They also had some farm animals. A small horse, a few goats, a donkey and a couple baby calves.

Patrick enjoyed watching the animals. We were told by the caretaker that the one calf was kinda dumb. I think he was just missing his momma. He was only a week old and already they made him wean.

We had a lot of fun just letting Patrick wonder. There aren't a lot of places that we feel like we don't have to watch him every minute.

After the zoo we ate at a local cafe. We ordered Patrick his own lunch (mainly because we didn't want to share!) and he ate almost the whole thing. This kid loves him some mac and cheese!

After lunch we headed to a playground and once again, Patrick got to roam around. It is amazing how much he can do physically now. He climbs on everything, crawls through everything and he evened hopped down a step with two feet (although I don't think it was intentional)

It was the perfect family day!