Weekend Wrap-Up

We had SUCH a great weekend.  We had some fun plans, the weather was beautiful, and the girls were awesome.

Saturday

We started out Saturday with some playtime at home.  There is a lot of parallel play happening these days.  Maya wants to be wherever Callie is, but Callie gets annoyed when Maya tries to take her toys.  So she has learned to give Maya something she doesn't want to play with to distract her, and it works pretty well.  Most of the time.

Since it was so gorgeous out, we checked out a park that is not too far from our house on Saturday afternoon.

See that tire swing in the upper right corner?  It is most definitely NOT
a tire.  It is a big hunk of red plastic shaped like a tire.  But Callie LOVED it.

On Saturday evening G-ma and G-pa came over to babysit so we could go to an Oktoberfest party at the Suurmeyer's place.  It was fun to get out for a couple hours after bedtime on a Saturday night!

The only bummer of the weekend happened shortly before we left for the Oktoberfest party.  Remember when I mentioned on Friday how Maya is pretty unstable and likely to take a coffee table to her forehead?  Well, that sort of happened.  It wasn't a coffee table...instead it was a headfirst dive off the couch onto the hardwood floor.  She got a little gash and a big goose egg.  She was pretty freaked out at first, but was able to recover pretty quickly.

Last night (picture taken in the mirror); this morning.

Sunday

While Chris and Callie were at Sunday School, Maya napped.  Then we took a beautiful fall walk.

I went to Chris' cousin Sarah's baby shower this afternoon with Mary.  Sarah is due with a baby boy on Christmas day.  They also have another cousin due around Christmas.  Yay for Christmas babies!

Sarah's sister Beth made the adorable elephant on a motorcycle.  The motorcycle
was made of diapers, burp clothes, bibs, and bottles.

Later this afternoon we did some raking, which of course meant FUN for our 4-year-old.

"Mom!  This is like a dream come TRUE!"

We ended the weekend by going out to dinner, just us and our two goofy girls.

We have another busy week ahead of us and Callie is anxiously awaiting Halloween. 

I'll leave you with a couple of cute videos.  Have a great week!

Video #1: Callie dancing to "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" soundtrack.  It was a soundtrack my sisters and I grew up listening and dancing to.  It is amazing how I still have the entire CD memorized after not hearing it for YEARS.


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Video #2: And then we have Maya playing peek-a-boo and showing off her high five skills after bath time tonight.


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