I love Summer and all it brings but that also means coming up with a healthy balance of entertaining activities vs. learning how to entertain ourselves. This past weeks highlights included stopping off for a picnic lunch in front of Aunt Kim's store. Towards the end Carter declared (for the umpteenth time) that she neeeeeded to get her nails painted. My mouth opened to say (for the umpteenth time) we only go to the nail salon on really special occasions but I was beat out, and obviously overruled, when Kim said, "Why not?!" What are Aunts good for if not to spoil you?! Wait, that's easy...winning Survivor of course...
Let me re-phrase...What are Aunt's good for if not to spoil you and win Survivor?! So next door to the nail salon they went...
I couldn't get over how little Emerson looked in the chair...
And how hard she was concentrating on being still...
Thanks Kim for providing a little spontaneous fun it's what childhood memories are made of...
I have a lot of those "spontaneous childhood memories" of my own. My mom was the Queen of Spontaneity. I tend to be a little more "consistent" but also want to throw in a sprinkle of unexpected outings myself every once in a while. Last Thursday the girls had woken up early and I decided to throw caution to the wind. We loaded up, grabbed breakfast and headed to the zoo...
We have a membership which means you can get in a couple of hours before the park opens. On this particular morning we hit the jackpot. We walked into the normally very crowded Africa Live exhibit and had the whole place to ourselves. They had just let the Hippo into the aquarium and it was kind of magical...
Emme wasn't quite sure that the glass was enough to separate them and kept her distance. Carter on the other hand was enthralled as he followed her around everywhere she went...
I loved watching her watch him. It was kind of amazing...
Hooray for early morning trips to the zoo...
We've also had other reasons to cheer this week. Specifically a certain little puppy who continues to steal affection left and right around here...
And Nate has only threatened to get rid of her once (smile) so things are going really well in the land of June...
Speaking of Nate another highlight of the week was a Chik-Fil-A car date while Emme napped in the backseat...
We were picking up Nate who had been gone for week on a work trip that took him to Hawaii (it's a rough life but somebody's gotta' do it). Getting to sleep in Sunday morning helped a little (then these two snuck in and woke me up)...
We've also been filling our afternoons with what else? Lot's of pool time! Surprise, surprise...
These two showed up the other day and spiced things up a bit...
Leave it to Kim...
And that about covers the latest. It's a happy mix of spontaneity and boring (if those can happily exist together) and I'm digging it. For what it's worth I suggest doing something everyday that makes you happy. Like dressing up just to take a snooze...
It's the little things. Happy Summer!
