My friend, Ellie, and her family came to Mema’s earlier in the month to have a swim date!  It was soooo much fun to see her!  It’s too bad that we live 30 minutes apart!  There are a few pictures from our playdate that will hopefully be up soon. 

One of my most recent adventures was going with Gigi on a bus trip to Chicago to spend the day at the American Girl Store!  It was so awesome!  I told Gigi that it wasn’t how I’d imagined it, but it was cool!  Gigi got a matching pink dress for my American Girl doll and me to wear.  I got my picture taken with my doll and printed on an issue of American Girl Magazine!   Of coarse, this was AFTER my doll spent some time in the spa getting her hair done!  The biggest treat was a tea party for guests.  There were tea cakes, sandwhiches, desserts, oh my!  I also made a NBF on the trip.  We met on the bus and kept running into each other all day.  We even sat by each other at the tea!  On the way home, Gigi traded seats with her so she could sit by me!  I got so many neat things and even some stuff to put up on the shelf for my birthday.  Thank you so much, Gigi!  “This was my best day ever!”

Also, you’ll notice that I refer to Momma now as Mom.  I asked her if it was okay and she said yes, but I don’t think she really believes herself when she says, “That’s fine.”

Last, we’d like to send out some thoughts and prayers to Jen C.  Just know we’re thinking about you and your family.  If you need me to come and make some castles out of boxes with you, I’m your girl!

On Tuesday, Mema came down to take care of Momma and we stayed home, too. Momma was feeling very ambitious and didn’t want this surgery to keep her down for too long, so we all loaded up in the car and headed to the library for some new books and prizes for our summer reading! After we hit Pizza Hut Salad bar for some lunch. By then, Momma was feeling beat and we all headed home so she could rest. It was fun spending time with Mema!

Friday was a Gigi Friday with a twist… Dana came with Gigi to play with us! We were off and running by 9AM! First, we went to Gibby’s to treat Dana to the best donuts on Earth! Then we went to Dollar Tree, Subway, Toy Story 3, Apron Strings, and then back home to play restaurant. It was a normal jam packed Gigi Friday, but a bonus with Dana!

Momma would like to thank everyone for thinking about her this week, and all the special treats!

We set up camp and chilled out for a bit watching the crazy Jelly Belly airplane doing flips and stalls. Next up was the super loud and super fast F18 Hornet. It was definitely the fastest plane out there and did some crazy rolls and climbs, but we were glad to see the Jelly Belly plane come out again and do more silly stunts, too. We probably watched 42,234 more planes come out and fly up, fly down, flip over, roll around, loop-the-loop, and land before we decided that we had enough sun and it was time to make the trek back to the car with all of our gear.

The wonderful air conditioning brought us back to life and, by the time we hit Indy, we were ready for some grub. We hit Red Robin and pounded some fries and sandwiches before making it back home. We topped off the day with some bike/scooter riding and then packed it in. We were so worn out that everyone fell right to sleep and didn’t move a muscle!

Indy Air Show

Monday-Head to Lafayette to play at the Ivy Tech Library while Mema finishes up teaching her kids. Momma and I read about four books; Parks plays in the play area. Mema arrives, and we’re off running some sort of errands…Hobby Lobby, Menards, visiting Uncle TC, whatever happens to be on the agenda. Next, lunch in basement, and then SWIMMING! Mema’s pool looks awesome and Parks and I have a blast in there! We tend to be pretty pooped out at the end of the day so we fall asleep on the way home. We get awakened for dinner, bath, jammies, and some Wii time with Daddy.

Tuesday-Rainy, cold day doesn’t stop us. Ran errands all over Lebanon, sign up for summer reading program at the Lebanon Library, hit Ice Cream Paradise, and cleaned out some of the garage.

Wednesday-Camp/school for the majority of the day then Pizza Hut Salad Bar for dinner since Wednesday is Daddy’s golf night.
Thursday-Repeat of Wednesday, but Daddy works from home, so he usually picks us up.

Tomorrow is Gigi Friday so watch out, Gigi, here we come!

On Saturday night, Mommy and Daddy met up with us at Mema & Pepa’s and we all crashed there to be ready for another annual celebration on Sunday…the Annual Opening Up The Pool holiday! There was a lot of stinky water, sweating, and cussing from the grown ups, but Parker and I kept ourselves occupied in the sprinkler and generally “helping”…including a quick dip in the newly uncovered summertime swimming hole.

Monday, our bonus day, was a little more lazy but still included a pre-birthday lunch (call it a warm up to the main event) at Red Robin and ice cream at Obwerweis.

Thanks to everyone for letting us crash and filling our bellies while the parents partied it up!

Friday started off on the right foot…I didn’t have school!  I got to spend all day with Parker and Gigi on Gigi Friday, which is the first time in a while.  We made the most of it by taking a special trip to see the brand new Shrek movie in 3D.  It was very funny and Parker and I liked it a lot.  Then, we came home and hung out until Daddy got home and we kicked off the next chapter of the evening.  Parker went up to Lafayette with Gigi, but Daddy drove me over to Summer’s Birthday Party!  She is my friend from school and came to my birthday, so it was cool to go to her birthday party too.  I didn’t get to stay for long, though, because Daddy picked me up and we headed North to Lafayette for Phase III…more Shrek!  Aunt Carrie won a fancy Shrek party from McDonalds, complete with enough nuggets to choke an Ogre.  We played with Riley and Taylor while the parent-folks hung out and chatted about chicken and sauces.  It was so late when we left that it was almost tomorrow, so Parks and I both fell asleep in the car and were cashed out all the way home.

Thanks for the movie, Gigi, and for inviting us to the Shrek party, Lafayette Lawsons!

On Sunday, we geared up for Round 2 of the Weekend Adventures.  We had to run a few errands in the morning, but the day’s main event was a Mother’s Day/Birthday Party at Aunt Carrie and Uncle Manata’s house.  We pigged out on cheese, hot dogs, crackers, and cupcakes in between playing in the yard with Riley and Taylor.  The girls even took a trip on our bikes down to the park while Parker stayed back and worked on perfecting his golf swing.  Everyone was pretty zonked by the time we hit the road back to Lebanon, so it was straight to bath and bed to rest up for the week ahead.

Thanks to Mema and Pepa for hanging with us on Saturday and to Aunt Carrie and Uncle Manata for hosting us on Sunday…we had a lot of fun with everyone!