Tuesday, January 19, 2010

The Weekend Outing: Breaking In the Car

Saturday we picked up our hitch hiker Nancy, who also happens to drive well, and headed North to St. Louis.

Movies, blowing raspberries, sleeping, and snacking kept us pretty entertained for the trip.


Yes, even a little bit of sleeping. Although not much.


Once there we gave Nancy the weekend off and headed to our friends.
We hit the Magic House, which they so smartly live about a mile from, and it was fabulous. We didn't even get to see the whole place.



But the girls got to the water play, and there they played, and played, and played.




Jules played with the boys in the Leggo pit after they gave up and left the girls to the water. I love the purse. Nice touch.





Alida, who grew very attached to this skirt, served pizza.
And they had a ball for the longest time on the three-story slide.
You would think they would have taken a nap after this. They didn't.






They waited until we were 20 minutes from home to fall asleep.



And then they slept on the couch.
What is that lovely shade of red on the girl's hand, you ask?


Well it is left over from what Elaine was doing while she was not napping at our friend's house.
It is one thing entirely to say you will replace say a dish--familiar Dukes?
It is another thing to try to figure out how you are going to replace a wall after your 2-year-old gets into the nail polish...
Any ideas?










2 comments:

The Dukes said...

Ummmmmmm. Home Depot gift certificate?! Yikes! Let's just all be thankful she didn't consume it!

I can't believe you were at the Magic House! I hope we get to go this weekend. We accidentally started on the big kid side last time...

JB-anon no more! said...

Since you qualify as a Google Sharpshooter, I know that last question is rhetorical. However, in an abundace of curiosity, I looked it up. Apparently it us possible to remove fingernail polish from walls, but you know that by now. Twenty years ago, I spilled an entire bottle in our garage and it now looks like OPI modern art. Bad color choice. It deserved it's fate.

Magic House looks, um, magical! Lucky kids. Lucky mom for such great friends.