Lemony Webbles

family weekend

We've been doing lots of good family together stuff lately, but I haven't been feeling very photographic, so I haven't been taking pictures. I just want to be there instead of being the reporter. But now I don't have any pictures to help me remember! Urgh. Oh well. We've had a lot more of Billy lately and we've been taking every opportunity to be all together and do fun things. We started going to the YMCA every Friday afternoon (Billy too!) for "Rugrats" where little kids can play on all the gymnastics equipment any way they want. It's just right for our kids- they've needed a place to jump and tumble around for a while now. Georgia spends almost the entire hour jumping on their big inset trampoline. When her tummy starts hurting from all the jumping, she swings from the rings or the big hanging rope. Maya does a lot of running up and down the tumbling tracks ( a long sidewalk of squishy mats or trampoline) and hanging from bars.

We've all been playing at Meadowbrook park too and we all made it all the way around the long walk around the prairie on Friday. Saturday we shopped all day for a dresser for the new baby's clothes- and enjoyed the crazy wind!- and spent the evening putting it together. Sunday, Billy was in an informal frisbee tournament where he played ultimate frisbee ALL DAY, from 8 AM to when it got dark. Crazy! And his team won the tournament! Yeah Billy! The girls and I came to cheer them on in the afternoon and had a good time being outside. It was weird being the ONLY spectators, let alone the only pregnant woman and children there. Oh well. We're used to it. Maya kept things lively by running out on the field as often as she could get away, to try to make a break for Daddy. I got more of a workout that I wanted to running after her and hauling her back to the sidelines. The players on the 'bench' would call out 'baby on the field!' when she got away. It was kind of humorous, but it's a pretty dangerous thing to do, so we didn't want to turn it into a game, which is exactly what it was for her. She wanted to play a running, chasing game on that field too! Not just watch other people do it!

We had a very low key Halloween, happily. No trick or treating, Maya fell asleep for the night around six after all the running around, and Georgia and I made pretzels and popcorn balls and painted pumpkins while Billy went to terrorize (actually socialize with) the neighbors in a lion costume. We had Liza over (hooray!) for a little bit to help us eat our halloween treats and play with her new Mr. Potato Head and then Georgia was asleep at 9:30. That was the sanest, least sugary halloween I've ever had. It was weird, but good. I'm trying to make over the Holidays that have a lot of candy and stuff the kids can't eat but still make it fun. It's been a very gradual process because they only come around once a year, so there are not many opportunities to practise and it's hard to get detached from all the traditions I grew up with and separate out the things I want to keep from those that aren't healthy enough to make a part of the family we're creating.

So that was our big weekend! Yeah!