After yesterday’s discouraging evening, I had a big cry and a super long snuggle with Wavy, which helped. Brady and I played hangman (no joke) for a while, where he made puzzles like “I will always love you” and quotes from my favorite movies, whereas I made puzzles like “Ikea under-bed storage” and “I have a barracuda in my pocket.” Just realizing, thanks to autocorrect, that I spelled barracuda wrong. Sorry, Brady!
This morning, my head is a bit clearer, and I discovered a way to gain five additional gigs of data for only $5.50! We hotspotted from Brady’s phone, and it only took minutes to upload yesterdays pictures onto wordpress from the laptop using data. I’m not sure how much it’ll actually have used up, and our data tracker is a few hours behind, but I’m hopeful that this will be an easy solution! The internet still sucks, but this method will make loading pictures possible!! YES!
That being said, todays post will be LONG, because it will include yesterday’s pictures!! WIN!
So, yesterday…
I went for a quick morning walk to the grocery store/bakery and bought everyone breakfast. The sticky buns are a family tradition back from when I was growing up 🙂 Our kids LOVE them! Brady and I got these magical pastries called cream cheese pockets. They’re exactly what they sound like, yes. I also bought coffee filters, because while they had them at our condo last year, they don’t this year. Its been like that with a few different things. I’m wondering if maybe the people who stayed in our unit before us just left a few things behind and the staff left them for us. Makes sense. We’ve got them now!
After breakfast, we headed out for a walk.
Anyone else’s kids need to carry a stick? Ours do!
It was a cold, blustery morning, but if you’ve read on other lake day posts, our kids are completely happy to throw rocks into the lake for a while. Plus, if you know me at all, you know I kind of love stormy weather, so it made for some wonderful, windblown pictures.
We wandered the town for most of the morning and made our way back for lunch. Lunch was probably the highlight of my day. We ate SUCH yummy food! One of the bonuses of having SO many leftovers from Wavy’s party is that we could bring TONS of it along with us here 🙂 I held Waverly and snacked while the little boys napped and Dekker and Laela colored and read books. After about 45 minutes of that, we clicked the tv on and the big kids snuggled for a bit. I LOVE when that happens!!!
After naps, we attempted to go play at the playground but we had a few unwilling participants…
so we headed home.
Once we were back at our complex, we accidentally stole toys from another family’s deck (whoops) and enjoyed the few moments of sun out of the wind that we could get. Conveniently, the people we accidentally stole from showed up and were loaded down with super social kids and really friendly parents. We ended up killing a lot of time with them in the courtyard as their kids passed Waverly around and asked about all of our other kids, where we were from, etc. When it was suppertime, their kids tried to come along with us, but we agreed to see each other again later. They’ll be here all week, as will we. They were a really nice family.
Hot dogs for supper, and off to bed we were. Well, first we fussed with the internet for a couple of hours, and then we went to bed.
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To today!!!
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Today was lower key, as if thats possible, haha! I took Dekker with me to go get breakfast, which we sadly have no photo proof of. But we know it happened 😁😁 because it was really nice! We walked through the trees and took our time. When we got to the bakery, Dekker saw something he thought he might like more than a sticky bun, so he chose a cherry danish, while the rest of us got our usual stuff.
After breakfast was when we came up with the way we’re (hopefully) going to be able to make the pictures work! So we did some research and made some decisions, and somehow, while we were doing that, the kids played totally happily together and didn’t go completely bananas! That was how we accidentally stayed in for the morning! It was actually so nice for all of us. While I’m sure the bigger kids would’ve loved going out and finding something to do outside, poor Wavy has NOT been enjoying the wind and cold as much, as she cried through most of our outside time yesterday, so this morning was much more her speed. She had some good wakeful time on me 🙂 She looks a bit like a muppet here, hey?
We had another delicious lunch, same as yesterday’s lunch, and then enjoyed some quiet time and naps. When everyone woke up, it was time to get out and about! The sun was out and the wind was down. We finally put in some good time at the playground! Good enough time that we don’t have nearby as many pictures as we normally do 🙂 Worth it.
This one is hard to see, but Ro is the little teal dude sitting on the seesaw, waiting for someone to come be his friend. This is his signature move on a playground 🙂
Popcorn chicken and fries is on the menu for supper, which I’m realizing is probably what the kids will order when we go out for supper in the next couple of days. However, the restaurant we go to out here has chicken fingers in the shape of dinosaurs, so naturally, they’re entirely different, and will probably be eaten with fewer complaints 😉 I remember, last summer, I ordered fish and chips, and randomly had a dino nugget thrown in there. The kids were SO JEALOUS!
The evening was well spent, as Dekker built big duplo creations, Laela and Rowan built forts behind the chairs, and Solly alternated between both groups. Brady played guitar and he and I sang together. Wavy rocked some tummy time that she didn’t even hate!
I kind of liked it too 💜
***** WIN for today’s post actually working out! This bodes well for posting photos each day!!