Mom Part Deaux-Deaux

I owe you BIG BIG time. I left you hanging, with promises of the finale of mom's trip with us and then some. And now it's been more than month. As usual I got busy, I found a good book series, and I really am running out of good excuses. So there, I admit it, I am a excuses-less slacker. So with out further ado, here is a post, I can't promise more than one tonight, but I'll be working on more and catch ups towards the end of the weekend and early next week (because I am off of work!).

Mom Part Deaux-Deaux:

When we last left off we had finished day two of Oma's visit. A day filled with State Park walks, tennis lessons and our first ever library visit (we have since been back once. I am terrible). Day three and our final day 4 together brought some more firsts and unique visits for us.

We started out day 3 doing something, I can't even remember what, but it landed us at In N Out burger (oh yeah I remember now, we went to Sams Club LOL!). We braved a large crowd and half a melt down from one, maybe even both the boys. A very kind patron got stickers for the kids, I even thought she worked there until I saw her lunching a few booths over... haha. The kids got hats too, which they loved, at least for a few minutes.

He has a paci because he was in metl down mode. Don't think I let him walk around with that all day LOL!

Then we had a wonderful time at the 9th Street Park in town. The city has majorly improved the park since I was little, and it has all these wonderful and fun and challenging apparatus' for the kids to navigate.

A little blury, but Lucas loved the rocking whale!

The timid boy took a few attempts but finally scaled the spider web! (Elijah)

Elijah and I stole a few minutes together so that he could go pee in the bushes, and I took that time to snap a selfie of the two of us. Funny story, he then chased a goose and it turns out his Preschool teacher lives across the way and watched the whole thing go down. She had a dinner party over and they were cracking up watching Elijah chase the goose, half scared it was going to turn around and nip him.

Mom and daughter selfie!

 Day 4- the final day brought us back over to Katie's.  Lucas was exhausted and not happy about trying to take a picture with Oma. I think Katie got one or two mediocre snaps, I can't say that I got any good ones where all three were behaving LOL.

We had such a fun time with mom. I think this time was really special as it brought back memories of Jane. Things we used to do with her like walk in the state park, and play at the 9th street park, go to the library (as she was an avid reader) and play tennis. It was so neat getting to relive these memories now, with my kids and their Oma.  XOXO