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| Lilly relaxing in the "beach chair" |
So I was fortunate enough to have from Friday at 5pm until Tuesday at 1pm off from work and with Lilly. I was going to overload the schedule with fun summer activities but then I thought about it and really, a few days of kicking back without a schedule and just going with the flow sounded more like exactly what we needed. Friday evening, it was still blisteringly hot so Lilly and I thought we'd "hide" in Stop & Shop. As it turned out, the power at Stop & Shop ALSO thought it would hide...as it was no where to be found. I did manage to pick up some items but ended up leaving without a majority of what we needed and had to come back Saturday morning. No worries. After the trip to the store Saturday, which I went on by myself because little Miss HATES grocery shopping, she decided she was going to cook me lunch. So cute right? Together we had found this fun website for kids cooking called "Play with Your Food". Lilly (with some help from me with the over) prepared "Dinosaurs in the Trees" - dino chicken nuggets, broccoli 'trees' and broccoli slaw 'grass'. It was delicious. That afternoon, our neighbor and fellow firefighter Bill invited us over for a dip in his pool. Ahhhhhhh.....so relaxing. Much better than trying to paddle around in Maddie's plastic kiddie pool ;-/
Sunday, was a great day. With the extreme temps and sweaty kids (we borrowed the Littles) the only place to be was at the beach. So Lilly and I prepared some tasty eats the night before and packed it all up in the cooler along with towels, blankets, sand toys, sunscreen, and all the other beach gear, threw everyone in the car, and headed to Rocky Neck for the day....where the sun didn't shine....at all....even for 5 minutes....until we got on 395 heading home at quarter after 4 in the afternoon. Figures.
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| Ham and cheese roll-ups and PB&J roll-ups. |
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| Olive penguins, ladybugs on a log, and pepper butterflies. |
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| Fruit flowers and citrus boats. |
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| Corn flowers. |
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| Living the good life - 10:15am on the beach. |
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| Fruit break. |
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| "Discussing" how they were going to construct their castle. It never got built. |
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| Dana and Lilly gave up and went swimming while Emily sat and thought about it for just a FEW MORE MINUTES. |
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| The sun finally came out.....6 hours later...on our way home. |
Back on the beach though, I took some photos...some require an explanation as to their importance...some are self-explanatory. Here are a few:
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| The woman in the blue tank top and black spandex, while covered, neglected the bra portion of her outfit....thank God she's facing away....next to her is a young lady with black shorts on the read "BITCH" across her rear-end -- classy. All the way to the right is another lady wearing black spandex, a red tube top, and a black bra. Ugh. |
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| Not sure where this woman's boobs ended and the back began....go ahead....zoom in...you'll see... |
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| Ah yes. The family reunion. In more than one sense. You see, the family of about 72374 all met on the beach today. And then the woman hugging the young boy, lost the young boy, and proceeded to stand in the water yelling his name out for almost 45 minutes. Obviously this worked in some way because here they are hugging....but really? |
Monday, Lilly and I both slept in until about 9 and after breakfast went to the library for an hour or so. She took out this CD titled "Hop, Skip, Sing Spanish" to play in the car so she could learn Spanish. It's great. Perfect for children to follow along to, fun for the whole family.......unless you think like a I do occasionally with your mind in the gutter. There is a song, supposedly a traditional Spanish song sung to babies and small children, about a box. There are surprises int he box too. What's in your box? Also, chestnuts and little chestnuts. Oh dear. It's interesting.
Anyway, after Lilly's appointment in Old Lyme, we surprised her with a trip to Buttonwood Farm for their annual Sunflowers for Wishes fundraisers. We took a hayride through the pasture and fed the cows, through the fields of sunflowers, and had huge portions of ice cream which, according to Lilly, is the best ice cream on the planet because they make it "RIGHT THERE!"
We wrapped up Monday with a glance through Lilly's new Kid's Cookbook we borrowed from the library and made up a list of items I have to purchase before she returns to my house Saturday. The list is, if you fold a piece of notebook paper in half length-wise, 3 columns long. Just stuff for these recipes. 3 columns. Then I added in the other stuff we need like, you know, toilet paper, tissues, MORE sunscreen....and now it's 5 columns long. Can't wait for that bill.....coupon clippin' here I come!
In any event, Lilly had fallen asleep Monday on the way back from Buttonwood for about 20 minutes, still went to bed at 8....and I STILL couldn't get her out of bed until 9:20 this morning. In addition to being very interested in cooking and, more importantly - eating, she's been sleeping like crazy. Can we say "growth spurt"? Thank goodness it's summer and we're wearing shorts......
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