Playing & Skating

Monday, August 8

Jack has become really adept at using utensils. He was using his fork with dinner tonight until he decided it was easier to just pick up the food with his hands.

Tuesday, August 9

I pulled out Mara's old Little People farm tonight, and the kids just sat on the floor playing with each other for the longest time. I'm hoping this will help Jack learn his animal sounds better (although he has a cow's moo down already).

Wednesday, August 10

We got Mara a Rapunzel water bottle, and she's been using it to drink more water during the hot weather.

Thursday, August 11

For the first time in a long time (40 days to be exact), it wasn't 100+ degrees when I came out to the van after work today. In fact, thanks to a lot of clouds and rain all around us, we broke a string of 100+ degree days, just missing tying the record of 42 days set back in 1980 by two days. It was nice to walk to the van without my eyes feeling like they were burning.

Friday, August 12

We ate dinner at Chick-Fil-A tonight, and Mara took Jack up into the play area. He had a lot of fun crawling around with Mara and going down the slide.

Saturday, August 13

Today was Mara's first day at skate school. She did pretty well and even left the wall finally. She seemed to really like it, and even wanted to go out and participate in public skate for a few minutes after her class was done.

Sunday, August 14

We went to the LEGO store at the mall today, and Mara showed me how she can fit inside a large brick they had there.