Wordless Wednesday

Nothing much happens

Today we had a bit of a lazy day. It has been threatening thunderstorms for the last five days and we have barely seen a drop of rain, but today it looked like it wouldn't hold off much longer. The threat of rain and the fact that I was feeling a bit under the weather made us cast aside our plans to attend a local festival with the girls. Instead, we decided to have the girls help us wash the car since that would be both productive and a bit of fun.

What child doesn't love to wash a car? Apparently, Julia. She is not sold on the idea but Emma made up for Julia's lack of enthusiasm. I think Emma thought it was the best idea ever! I know I've mentioned before how much she loves to see people working - and watching people work while sitting in the driver's seat of the car (we put the ChildRite chair in the seat so she was supported) just sent her into fits of giggles. Giggles like that would keep us working all day except that it started to drizzle. Julia is very much afraid of storms and at the first mention of a drop of rain she ran inside for shelter while I kept right on vacuuming the car. Chris was convinced that the sky was going to open up and storm so he started putting all the supplies away and took a crying Emma inside. Emma did NOT want the fun to end outside and she had no problem letting us know.

Emma went down for a nap while Julia and I spent a bit of the afternoon lounging around and watching tv together, which is very rare treat in our house. Much to our amazement, the rain never really came. There was about 5 minutes of drizzle before it subsided and so we could have cleaned the car after all. Before dinner we decided to head out on a family walk and were just starting out when it started to drizzle again. Really! Julia cried she wanted to go home but we pressed on and after a couple of minutes the rain went away and we all enjoyed the walk.

Overall nothing much happened today but I decided to make a journal entry about it anyway. Sometimes it's just nice to capture the everyday, boring stuff to look back at sometime in the future.

You just have to ask

Today is Friday which means Field Trip Friday for us and since the Delaware Children's Museum was such a big hit last week we decided to go there again. We ran into a few friends there which was a great surprise and the girls just had so much fun playing with them. I found some more ways to have Emma interact with the exhibits and she kept squealing with delight. I just love when that happens :)

When we were leaving I spoke with the front desk staff. I handed in my feedback form and started to talk abut the water exhibit. Before I could say much, she told me she remembered me from last week and that she had spoken with the museum director and everyone TOTALLY AGREES that they want to make the water exhibit available to children in wheelchairs. They are already discussing possible options to make this happen.

How cool is that? I'm so excited that Emma will eventually be able to use this exhibit without total assistance from Mom or Dad. I know she loves having us around but she is exerting an independence streak whenever possible and anything she can do on her own without Mom and Dad participating in 100% is a fantastic activity in our book.

Thanks, Delaware Children's Museum for having such an inclusive mindset!

For Sale

It's official - our house is for sale. The sign was just mounted in our yard.

I leave you with a quote from Chris: "Oh, boy. I hope that doesn't become a fixture. By that I mean that I hope I don't have to decorate the signpost with Christmas decorations."

That makes two of us. Wish us luck!

Memorial Day

Memorial Day is celebrated early in our town since the local university graduates every Memorial Day weekend causing the town to pretty much double in size that weekend. This year the annual Memorial Day parade down Main Street was held on May 16th and we arrived about an hour early to scope out a great (shaded) spot for the festivities. We had packed a picnic lunch and met some nice people sitting around us and so the time before the parade started passed pretty quickly.

I felt overwhelmed with gratitude to all the people in the parade that endured great personal sacrifice to ensure our safety. There were so many people - young, old, men, women, children in school programs, Vietnam vets, Korean Vets, POW and MIA groups - in the parade and each and every one of them received lots of applause from the crowd. Julia was happy to be at the parade until she saw the UD mascot coming down the street and she immediate fled to Daddy's arms and they moved as far away from the street as possible without leaving the area and she spent the remainder of the parade stuck to Daddy. Chris really enjoyed this display of affection from Julia since it is usually reserved for Mommy. However, she turns quickly into a Daddy's girl when people dressed as characters or thunder/lightening are around.

Emma loved the parade but not like we had imagined. We thought she would be glued to all the action in front of her with the parade going by, but that was not the case. She seemed to be very interested in everything going on behind her and kept straining her neck to see all the non-action going on there. This made me laugh but we were so happy that both girls were able to enjoy their first Memorial Day parade and learn a bit more about our nation's history.