The week started off beautiful with lots of time spent outside on walks, bike riding, and playing with our toys. On Tuesday, when we were playing in and out of the garage, a stray cat just came up to me, meowed, and bolted into the garage! Well, that was a surprise! The kids were completely interested in it (of course), and kept trying to drag it out of our cat house tower where it had decided to curl up in. It was a friendly cat, thank goodness, so Kylie kept trying to bring our cat out to "make friends". Uhh... no. Our cat was already growling at the garage door and while he was bigger than the stray cat, I didn't really want them getting into a fight.
Eventually I lured the stray cat out and gave it a handful of food and a little water. It gobbled it up like it hadn't eaten in days, poor thing! Afterwards we went inside and the cat went away and we haven't seen it since!
Well, it was getting so warm outside in the afternoons, that I was getting the itch to go swimming! And Kylie had been doing so well at school, that on Tuesday when I dropped her off I just said in passing while she was getting out of the car "If you get a happy face today we can go swimming!" Of course she was excited, but I didn't mention it again. Turns out she only got an OK face today (she bugged her neighbors a lot that day), and I didn't even say anything after school, just showed her the paper from her teacher with an OK face, and, man!, did she just die. Full on tantrum in less than a second! She really wanted to go swimming!! Well, her bad attitude persisted the rest of the day, so we tried again on Wednesday. That day she only got an OK face again, but she took it in stride and when we were home she earned going swimming by helping me clean up and being happy. Both kids were super excited and had so much fun!
On Thursday Kylie managed to get a happy face, so she immediately thought we were going swimming! Uh oh... is this turning into an everyday thing?!? We did end up going swimming because it was super hot anyway!
Our weekend was fairly quiet. It rained all weekend, plus Brandon had to work, so on Saturday we went to visit him and have Italian Ice together. On our way out the door we ran into Grandpa Pete!! What a surprise! He was down here for work again this weekend and had quickly dropped by to say hi before heading back home. We loved seeing him (and the kids loved playing in the puddles while I talked to him).
In other news, Hayden can say 'Yeah' now, instead of just grunting his yeses! His vocabulary is really widening. The other day while I was cooking he came up to me and asked "Mom, what doing?" It was really surprising and super cute. He is really good at holding conversations now and loves trying to say new phrases.
