I have been meaning to post these for the last two weeks. Sloan has been drawing quite a bit lately. She is always excited to have me put her work on my blog. I love all of these little creations. My very favorite is the last one, it's a picture of her tucking Aris into her bed. I love my little Sloan so much.
There is a cute little park at the Marina. When it's not soooo windy I will let Zoe play for a while after our walk.
The girls looked like this for most of the walk. Aris is under all those blankets. Zoe was mad because she wanted to play at the park and didn't understand why she wasn't able to.
I called two friends to see if they wanted to walk around the Marina. Susan and her kids Katie and Peter. Hilary and her kids Charlotte and Eric came. We all met there and proceeded to walk. It was quite a feat! Let me tell you the wind was blowing so hard we were pushing against it like it was a wall. Poor Aris, the wind was just knocking the breath right out of her and all she kept doing was raising her arms up like she was praising the lord. It was so funny and sad all at the same time. I had to put one of the blankets over both girls to try and shield them from the gusts. As I was trying to do this, no joke, my shirt was flying up. I was like oh good gravy now you guys know why I need to get in shape. Thankfully I had a sports bra on and all the children are young enough that the whole experience shouldn't scar them for life. I had to tuck in my shirt for the remainder of the walk (Think Ed Grimmly pushing a stroller). Yes it's time for some REAL work out clothes. When the walk was over I yelled over the wind, "You want to let the kid's play on the playground?". I was met with, "Maybe when it's not so windy". I had visions of kids climbing up the stairs to go down the slide and the wind picks up and oh no! There is little Zoe holding on for dear life with both hands while her legs fly in the wind, kind of like a kid flag. So we packed it up and headed home. It was all for the best. I had a bunch of bug guts all over my arms, no lie. My girls were covered in sand. My face was too. Kind of felt like I got a free dermabrasion treatment during my walk. Hopefully tomorrow won't be quite so windy. If it is I will be a little better prepared. The good news is I am one day closer to one of my goals.....getting in shape. I want to lose a total of 30 Lbs. I have lost 5 Lbs. 25 Lbs to go.
I can't get enough of Zoe' little dimple. Every night when she goes to bed she wants to give me "sugar". Sugar are her version of kisses. She grabs my face and turns it from side to side as she slobbers a kiss on both cheeks. I do the same thing back, however I let her know I am steeling her sugar and her dimple. She giggles and says "No way!"
Curious little Aris.
Look at those curls!
Oh how I love this sweet little face!
Just hanging out.
Sloan's take on "American Gothic".
"No", I kept saying, just smile Zoe, and she didn't want anything to do with it.
Unloading more horse manure. Dean and Tony let Sloan press the button to make the trailer go up and down. She was so excited.
The girls watching as Dean and Tony work to spread out all the manure.
It looks like dirt, but it's horse poo!
Piles and piles of it.
The guy's worked so hard all weekend. Next weekend will be filled with more yard work again. Next weekend Dean and Tony are going halvers on a tiller, to till all the manure that they spread out in both yards. In the next few weeks we will be planting some shrubs and flowers, but all the ground work needed to be done first. Our yard needs a ton of work before it looks the way we want it to look. Slowly but surely it will get there.
Zoe is still not feeling well. It's your typical case of your child runs around all day long like they are OK, and then the crash and burn follows. Night time brings the cranky, sick and coughing monster child. I am now holding Zoe as I finish up this post. She is a sad little Dozzers. She keeps telling me, "I'm sad momma". She looks so pathetic. Hopefully tomorrow she will feel better. I really don't want to go to the Dr. tomorrow. I want to take the girls for a stroll at the Marina. We will see how the morning unfolds.
I am going to post a few more photos and then finish up the research on the painting that I am working on for the upcoming auction. I already know what I'm painting for the small canvas, so I figured I would start with the larger canvas first. You know, get the hardest one finished first. Well my little sis just called, so I am going to sign off for now.
