Full Weekend!

The kids have had a great weekend, but a full one. Friday I took them to a nearby park (Eli calls it the 'bootcamp park') where we watched tennis and ran in the fields. The temperatures are staring to top out in the 80's now, which is very welcomed. When we put Maddux down for her nap, Eli and I made blueberry muffins from scratch. He loved testing them once they came out of the oven more than mixing them, but the whole process was fun. He took a cue from the prep work to step it up in his pretend play. The whole time they were baking, he was using an ice cube tray and one of my wooden spoons to make his own muffins. After playing catch and soccer in the front yard, Daddy fed the kids and put them to sleep while I was at a CPR class.

Saturday morning Eli and Maddie woke up to find our visitors in the house. Friends from NOLA passed through town this weekend and stayed with us, and they brought their black lab, Satchmo, with them. Eli loved it. He has really taken to dogs recently, and Satchmo is so mellow and so tolerant. Maddux wavered back and forth, waving enthusiastically to him from across the room, but sometimes protesting a little if he got in her bubble of comfort. When I got back from my training walk, we all traveled down to Piedmont Park for lunch and a leisurely park stroll. Eli loves the playground down there as it has very different apparatuses than any other park we frequent. After a long, well-deserved nap, the kids ate and played with the dog until Miss Laura arrived to relieve us. The four adults enjoyed an adult dinner while Maddux and Eli wore Laura down. Everyone, including "Mo-Mo", was asleep just after 8. Life is good.