Since this is my first post, I think we'll do a quick run through of the past couple of months....ie. Summer 2010! School got out at the beginning of June and, for the first summer since I was 15, I didn't work. I got to have the whole summer with my baby girl. After a couple days of being as lazy as we possibly could, Leyla and I realized.....WE GOTTA GET OUT OF THIS HOUSE! We spent some time looking for activities and found ourselves all over Montgomery, Prince Georges, and Howard county. Fourth of July with the Stengers, pools, libraries, fountains, visiting Grandma and Bepa, family reunion, water park in the Dells, driving from Wisconsin to New York :-( visiting Great Grandma, more pools, the Montgomery County Fair, and a day with Daddy at the zoo....all in all a pretty great summer.
And our summer begins....after jaunts out to various area pools and getting sick of paying the price (I mean seriously, Greenbelt pool was twelve dollars for one afternoon, wtf!) we were invited to go along with Ms. Mandy and Lucy to the Rockville library!!! What a great find (hats off to Mandy!) How can you beat reading some books at the library then running around in the fountain right outside! So much fun, we went back a couple more times. Only drawback?...not so close to us. We did find ourselves at the Silver Sprung fountain a couple times, but its not as nice and no library right there!
Our next big outing was July 4th in Poolesville with the Stengers!!!! Rockin' good time! A band to dance to, space to run around in, and a brave little Lucy to show us we don't need to be afraid of the fireworks.....and then a ride home of wode awake two year old at 10ish, and a miserable next morning.....hmmmm...maybe we need to remember this next year. But an awesome time was had by all!
Mommy and Leyla in Great Grandma's garage!
And Bepa too!
What a hard life I live! My mommy doesn't even pay enough attention to me to see when I need a nap! BAD MOMMY!
The middle of July took Leyla and I on a two week jaunt! We flew to Wisconsin where Grandma and Bepa were waiting to greet us! We then proceeded to lock our keys in the car in the airport parking garage, but despite a slow start we had a great week in WI! Our first weekend was spent with some of the Timmons family. Then on Tuesday, Grandma took off work and we drove up to the WI dells to spend the day at an indoor water park! Leyla was.......surprising. My little girlie girl who is afraid to run through bubbles took face fulls of water because the slides were (as she put it) AWESOME! The rest of the week was nice and after a couple tornado scares we all piled into the car to drive (yes, I said drive) to New York. Ummmm....that sucked! But we were finally in NY and had another great week. Ufuk drove up and picked us up and we were finally home again!
Our summer continued with fun in the sun and some extra fun places! Ultimate Fun Zone is our favorite new place....though it has weird hours it is an indoor wonderland of fun and jumping craziness! The two hour open play was just not enough for our little hopper, but worry not we have been back :-)
And one of our last outings before we have to go back to school soon was to the Montgomery County Fair! After wandering around and being terrified of all things animal, we found the chilly mall (for a needed air conditioned blast) and the KidZone for tons of Leyla sized fun! The donut tube and the pit o' soybeans were the best! We spent about half an hour watching Leyla jump, roll, and inspect soybeans. A great day was had and I love having a day with my family!
Hope I haven't bored you too much but stay tuned for the next installment.....fun with applesauce!
