Weekend Warriors

I have been feeling bad for Lilly because our lives have gotten quite a bit less active since having the baby. So I have been trying to make the most out of the weekends while Tyson is home and do a lot of family activities. Here are some of the fun things we have done.

Tyson’s office moved buildings recently so they had a work party to introduce the new building to the families of the employees. It was a fun little party with balloon animals, face painting, bouncy house, door prizes, shaved ice, and dinner. Lilly got a dolphin painted on her arm and a cat balloon. They even made Tyson a scary zombie balloon. We won two John Deere toys and got to see Tyson’s desk. Lilly was excited to play on his phone and computer.

 

Like last year, a garden store up the street from us sales pumpkins and has some fun Halloween things. We went a little early this year so they didn’t have as much stuff set up but we were still able to pick out pumpkins and bounce in the bouncy house. We will probably go up there again in the next week or two to do the rest of the Halloween things they set up like the hay maze and another bouncy house.

To stick with the bouncy house theme we went to our local Monkey Joe’s. Monkey Joe’s is an indoor facility with multiple bouncy houses. Most cities have something similar to Monkey Joe’s just with different names. Lilly is really good at climbing and can do all of the houses on her own now. In the past she has needed a lot of help so it is fun seeing her progress.

I was looking for a little kid scary corn maze in the area (surprisingly, they don’t have a lot of corn mazes around here even though the whole state is a big corn field) and I came across a local pumpkin patch and family farm called Pride of the Wapsi. While we were there Lilly got to feed the goats, take a pony ride, play in the corn box, ride the barrel train, and take a tractor out to the pumpkin patch. Lilly did refuse to feed the goats though. She was still a little scared from being bitten by the swan at the zoo. I was proud of her for getting on the pony. I thought she was going to refuse to get on. I asked her what her pony’s name was and she named him Horsy. Lilly is very practical when she gives things names. If she has a dog she names it dog. If she has two dogs one is named big dog and the other small dog.

 

The most recent thing that Lilly and I got to do together was going to the Disney Junior Live: Princess and Pirate Adventure Show. We had a Mommy and Lilly date. Tyson bought us 3rd row seats. Lilly was so excited and asked about it for about 2 weeks before we went. When we got there she wanted to go to her seat so badly that she didn't even want to stop for snacks. I had to convenience her to go back and get cotton candy (that is my favorite) after we found our spots. Lilly was really cute during the whole show. She only got a little antsy about 15 minutes before it was over. At the end of the pirate show they shot gold coins out of a cannon. She wanted one so bad I let her go up to the very front at the end and grab one. It was a piece of tissue paper cut in a circle but Lilly carries it around like it is a real coin.

One of the funniest things that Lilly does now is try to convince me of things "Today is Halloween" or "Maci is coming over today". Then when I try to correct her she simply tells me no I am wrong and it is really Halloween today. She was doing this while we were waiting for the show to start:

Lilly: The curtain is going up now.
Me: No, we still have 5 minutes before it starts.
Lilly Nope, it is starting now.

 

Lilly wanted a picture with the girl pirate so bad. We went up to her and Lilly was being so sweet and lightly touching her leg waiting for her turn but the girl was not paying attention to us and ended up walking away so I brought her over to this guy who was much more accommodating.