Miscellaneous Catch Up
Yesterday, during their bath, Emmett wanted to do some of his own washing, so I let him do it. After he finished, he turned around, stuck out his backside a little and said in a goofy voice, "Does this look like a nice, shiny bottom?"'
The last two days Max, Emmett and I have gone on a walk to John's Grocery store. It's a fairly big walk for the boys, so I'm real happy to see them not only willing to do it, but wanting to do it. Of course the fact that I got them a treat each time at John's didn't hurt. Today it was a big bag of M&Ms. We also went on the walk today to re-find a sign we saw yesterday that made note of a "Family Fun Night" at one of the parks next Thursday. We found the sign and noted the details on my PDA this time. It turns out it is at the park on our street. There's going to be music, art and games like a bean bag toss and others as well as sidewalk chalk and other activities, plus the playground. It's free.
On the 4th of July we went to the Corralville fireworks. We found that not only were their fireworks, there were also carnival rides. They were kind of expensive, though, at 2 tickets per ride, and tickets costing $1 each (a little less if bought in quantity), so we let them ride 2 rides each. Emmett chose to ride the train and the flying sharks. Max rode the tanks and the super slide. The rides were a hit, but they were all in need of a lot of paint and some basic maintenance. For the price, we weren't impressed. This was where the pool is that has the water slides, and that pool did look like a lot of fun, so we hope to get them there sometime soon. Regarding the fireworks, I didn't really like the main part of the fireworks. They went on too long in entirety, and some of the fountain type fireworks, of which there were far too many, individually went on far too long (and were way too loud). It got pretty tedious IMHO, and I was ready to leave before it was over, but I'm glad we didn't because the finale was absolutely unbelievable. The sky was completely filled with color like nothing I've seen before. It was amazing.
The last two days Max, Emmett and I have gone on a walk to John's Grocery store. It's a fairly big walk for the boys, so I'm real happy to see them not only willing to do it, but wanting to do it. Of course the fact that I got them a treat each time at John's didn't hurt. Today it was a big bag of M&Ms. We also went on the walk today to re-find a sign we saw yesterday that made note of a "Family Fun Night" at one of the parks next Thursday. We found the sign and noted the details on my PDA this time. It turns out it is at the park on our street. There's going to be music, art and games like a bean bag toss and others as well as sidewalk chalk and other activities, plus the playground. It's free.
On the 4th of July we went to the Corralville fireworks. We found that not only were their fireworks, there were also carnival rides. They were kind of expensive, though, at 2 tickets per ride, and tickets costing $1 each (a little less if bought in quantity), so we let them ride 2 rides each. Emmett chose to ride the train and the flying sharks. Max rode the tanks and the super slide. The rides were a hit, but they were all in need of a lot of paint and some basic maintenance. For the price, we weren't impressed. This was where the pool is that has the water slides, and that pool did look like a lot of fun, so we hope to get them there sometime soon. Regarding the fireworks, I didn't really like the main part of the fireworks. They went on too long in entirety, and some of the fountain type fireworks, of which there were far too many, individually went on far too long (and were way too loud). It got pretty tedious IMHO, and I was ready to leave before it was over, but I'm glad we didn't because the finale was absolutely unbelievable. The sky was completely filled with color like nothing I've seen before. It was amazing.
posted by public_sjj at 11:41:00 PM
1 Comments:
did you know that john's grocery is usually (among the college crowd at least) refered to as "dirty john's?"
some people think it's just because it's an older run-down building, but really it's because they were the first place in town that sold playboy magazine.
just thought you should know.
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