Saturday

Anna and Jonathan were playing Restaurant together in her room this morning. She was serving food and tea to Jonathan and his Webkinz Crocodile. I love when I catch them playing together like this!


Anna climbed a vertical climbing wall that was pretty high to get to this slide. She did it over and over and over again. I was watching her climb... she is really good. I told her I think she will be a great rock climber someday.

Today Dave took Jonathan to a birthday party at Andretti Thrill Park. Jonathan had a lot of fun. His favorite thing to do there was the miniature golf. Dave and him played 18 holes, twice. Jonathan loved it. He did not want to go on the race cars because "they were too loud and smelled like gasoline."

I let Anna plan our day together. She said, FIRST we are going to the play place (Play Plus), THEN eat lunch, NEXT go to the park and ride my bike around. But FIRST go on the playground there. I let her pick our whatever she wanted for lunch... and she wanted Chili's. I was sort of puzzled by this, but decided to humor her. She told me on the way there that she "chose that place because they give you chips while you wait." Well, you do have to pay for the chips, but that is pretty much why I ever liked Chili's... I always have this problem after I eat there. My heart races (and I have palpitations) for hours, even up to a day after we go there. Plus, most of the time it makes me sick to my stomach. I always wonder why I pay to eat there and get semi-poisoned. But, it was fun to go with Anna. She loves their chicken crispers, and my goodness, who wouldn't? I swear they fry those in hush puppy batter.

When we passed by one of those check cashing places, she got all excited, "Look Mama! We are getting closer! We are passing by The Money Store! That's the place where they sell money!" I had no idea that was one of her landmarks, but I guess we do pass it an awful lot. I started to argue with her that it is not where they sell money, but then I thought, that is pretty much what they do there. We had a lot of fun together today. We were singing in the car together, and without Jonathan around, she didn't feel pressured to change all the lyrics to involve poop. It was kind of nice. Plus, there was no fighting in the back seat, because there was no one to fight with.

Jonathan just turned the TV on and was really happy when he found golf. Um, no, we aren't going to watch this! He can wait until Papa Larry comes over to watch golf with him.
Anna is squirming around on the couch, doing headstands and downward dog poses, saying, "Bubba, after he is done hitting it, is he going to get on the golf cart? I WANNA SEE A GOLF CART! This is SOOO boring!" She is also insisting that one of the golfers is a girl, which is irritating Jonathan. (He is rather built in his chest with an unusually narrow waist... I can kind of see her point!)