Quote of the day: (from E) “I’m glad our baby has two
eyes. If he had one eye he might look
like a monster.”
On Friday I taught water aerobics for the first time since
baby was born. It was so fun to see my
ladies again and their excitement to have be back was a huge compliment. They of course asked lots about baby despite
the tough work out I put them through.
Meanwhile Z did great in day care.
Luckily he has his sisters to help but he usually sleeps most of his
time there so far.
So when we got home I ambitiously decided I really needed to
go for a run. I have a race in six weeks
and I am sorely undertrained for it. As
in, not at all. Since I haven’t ran
since December. So the big girls hopped
on to their bikes and Z was happy in the stroller. Somehow I forgot that E has never really
learned to ride a bike. She loved her
trike, and then went right to a scooter.
So it didn’t go as well as hoped.
I probably got a mile in. Not
really enough for me but plenty for her.
I was kind of tough on her (impatient with her nervousness) and she
worked through it, I’m proud of her for doing hard things.
We hurried to pack for our weekend adventure and then went
to a friend’s birthday party. They had
an inflatable water slide in the front yard and the kids were delighted! Despite some occasional rain, the kids raced
around to play in the water and jump on the trampoline and devour food. Everyone gathered around to do the piñata and
because of Godfather’s sneakiness, the piñata lasted long enough for everyone
to get a good turn. This was Z’s
favorite part. Everyone was yelling and
cheering and calling out to help. I held
Z facing out and he kicked like crazy and squealed and jabbered, apparently
loving all the excitement! We had to
sneak out before presents to go pick up daddy and begin our weekend road trip.
The drive was long.
And fairly anticlimactic. Z did
as well as expected. The girls played on
tablets. Husband and I got to chat and
admire the mountains. And finally it was
long past bedtime when we arrived in town, found the rental house and
unloaded. My brother’s family (with 7
kids) and Grammy were waiting for us and shockingly, all still awake. So we quickly put kids to bed and settled in
for the night.
In the morning the cousins played happily. We ate muffins and fruit and got everyone
ready for the day. My brother and
Husband took most of the kids to Moqui Cave which they loved! Grammy and I took Z over to my Grandma’s
house to help get stuff ready for the reunion.
We arrive at the park and joined into the rounds of hellos and
re-introductions (the reunion is for my Grandma’s siblings every other year, so
we don’t see most of this family very often).
We ate lunch and played games.
The girls loved the fishing booth and the
shoot-a-ping-pong-ball-off-its-peg-with-a-water-gun. There was a raffle for blankets and afghans
made with the remaining fabric from my Great Grandma’s stash and L was one of
the very lucky recipients. L also was
the first blackout for getting-to-know-you bingo. Mostly my girls loved playing in the
splashpad and were happy to do that all day.
The final activity was a huge hit—Grammy brought our water balloon launcher
and everyone gathered with towels for team catching across the field. My oldest nephew, who has unfortunately
become very sullen and withdrawn the past few years, absolutely lit up and
smiled more than I’ve seen in years when he was asked to help launch (and
turned out to have the best aim).
We took a break and everyone headed back to the house for
some downtime. The girls played with
cousins while Husband and Grammy finally got to sit and relax after such a busy
morning. (I pretend to help during the
reunion, but mostly I cuddled baby Z). I
left baby Z asleep on his daddy’s chest while I snuck the girls out to go with
me to pick up pizzas and gather at GrandmaGreat’s house for dinner. After being in the hot sun all day, no one
was as hungry as I thought they’d be, so we had plenty of leftovers. I announced we should get ready to go back to
the reunion and go swimming. My kids
raced off and were in their seatbelts before anyone else was even up off the
grass. My kids love to swim and were
thrilled that the family reunion continued that evening at the city pool. GrandmaGreat had rented the whole place just
for our group so they had plenty of space to play and splash and had a great
time. They almost missed dessert
completely because they didn’t want to get out of the water. It was too cold for Z (they had to drain,
clean and refill the pools after the floods earlier in the week) but lots of
aunts and cousins were eager to hold him for me. Finally, we dragged our kids out of the
water, sent everyone to shower, took everyone home and got everyone asleep.
On Sunday we made chocolate chip pancakes (always a huge
hit) and took everyone to church. The
kids were surprisingly well behaved through sacrament meeting and then we said
a quick goodbye. Back a the rental we
ate leftover pizza while we packed and piled everyone into cars. Cousin Mimi got to come home with us (much to
the delight of L) so the two of them disappeared into the third row seating to
play the whole way home. We stopped
halfway at the Big Rock Candy Mountain to play.
The resort was closed but we got ice cream cones at the gas station and
played a park for a few minutes. We
stopped for some Café Rio on the way home and made it home with time to play
before bed.
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