Woohoo!

Yesterday was a true summer fun busy day, we did our chores and homework and before we knew it, it was time for our playdate. The Barnes and Noble story time was not good, they had a classic guitar player there from the Austin Lyric Opera, he was really good, but after about 3 songs, the kids were done - he played classical guitar from many countries, lost on the little ones. And the poor guy playing above the crying, also had to put up with little kids spinning the book stands and they squeaked that finger nail on chalk board kind of irritating squeak. It was funny to me, but not in a good way ;)

Marie volunteered as the first kid to strum the guitar and you could see her maturity and she really enjoyed it. Of course after Marie volunteered Jake had to immediately volunteer and he strummed a little too. Then we looked at a few books and then our clan headed over to Bee Cave Park, where the kids just ran and ran and ran back and forth. They had a great time.

After that I promised Jake we could go to Micheal's, about a week ago, to pick up a project. Jake got a puzzle of the US to color, Marie bought a giant bird house to paint - for her dolls, and I bought flowers to paint. We got home and worked.

Then we went to the park for a swim, fun as always, the lake is nice and warm. Then out on the lake for a great time, one of our neighbors brought a ski and went skiing off the back of the boat, Jake was very excited about it, his eyes were glued the entire time. After the first fall, Jake shouted out, "Don't do that trick again, you had a big wipe out" and he was laughing and laughing with sheer happiness.

The kids crashed hard last night and we had a good day. Today, we have a few of Marie's friends coming over for a play date and we will probably head to the park to swim.

Now off to do our chores..
J