I decided this week to try and do something fun every day for the kids to help pass the time, and give them something fun to do. Especially since soon we won’t be doing much at all since we’ll be stuck home with a newborn. 🙂
So, I told the kids every day we would go on an “adventure” and I won’t tell them what it is until we either get there or we are in the van. They are thoroughly enjoying it. Here’s what we’ve done so far:
1. Trip to the Biggest Candy Store in Minnesota (the yellow barn just down the road in Jordan). I let them pick out one thing to have as their own.
2. Play date with the Tindalls and then we delivered a meal for a family at church. It was an adventure b/c I had never been to their house before.
3. Bowling! First time ever for Josiah and only the 2nd time for Chloe. Josiah was OVER THE MOON excited about it. Then we picked up a pizza and had lunch in the park.
4. Tour of Shakopee’s Parks! This was the adventure for today. I printed a map and chose 7 parks to go to (Shakopee has about 25 parks not including development/townhome parks). I picked only ones on this side of town that were larger. We spent 10 min. at each park then ran back to the van and drove to the next one. They thought it was AWESOME! Here are the picture highlights:
Our map!
I didn’t notice until I uploaded the pictures that Chloe seems to have her hands the same way in almost all the pictures. Haha!
I have a few other random pictures from the parks, so I’ll post those tomorrow since I already have a bunch. 🙂
What a fun week! And as soon as I saw the pictures with the kiddos I too saw that Chloe was consistent with her hand pose.
What a great way to make the best use of the remaining time as a mother of only two! You are so clever! It is amazing how many parks you have. It is obvious Shakopee has a lot more young families than a place like Chetek!
I just asked her why her hands were the same in each picture and she told me that’s her “excited pose” 🙂
Josiah looks not so sure about Huber Park but OH MY GOSH so excited about bowling! 😀 These are awesome!