We are so close to finishing our back yard projects that I can taste it! This past weekend Nate and I (with a little help from Abby) painted the fence on our side yard, filled the sandbox back up with good sand (instead of yucky crushed rock that we'd accidentally ordered last year), and put in river rock in the new edging areas we dug a while ago as well as a few spots in the yard that were short on rock coverage.
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| Here's a view of how dirty our fence was (on the right) compared to fresh paint (on the far left). It's now so bright in our backyard that you need sunglasses on a cloudy day! |
I had my second naked incidence at our local pool this week. The first involved me looking up from watching Abby play in the children's hot tub to see a man stepping out of the men's shower room naked as a jaybird. He opened the door to the pool area, must have felt a breeze where no breeze should be, then quickly tried to wrap his towel around himself while skedaddling back to the changing room. A minute or so later he walked back out with his swim trunks on. Is there really a point where you're so old you forget to put on clothes? Scary! The second incident was when Abby and I were showing after finishing our pool time. As I was drying off Abby wandered down a hallway that I thought had the door closed so I let her out of my sight for a minute to finish toweling off. When I went to look for her I suddenly realized that the door wasn't shut and Abby was running, with her cute naked tushie bouncing, towards the pool! She actually climbed down onto the steps as I ran after her. Thankfully I was able to call out from the doorway to a lady that was right next to her to have her bring Abby back to me. See, I was only half covered myself as the tiny towel wouldn't wrap around to hide my backside! Had no one else been near her I would have sprinted half-naked to the pool to grab her (as she floats like a rock) but was so happy I didn't have to resort to that indignity. Next week I'll make sure to keep a tighter hand on her after shower time!
I'm so thankful that Abby takes after Nate with her eating habits. If you put food in front of the girl she's happy to munch away on it, whereas I'm picky and naturally tend towards sweets instead of fruits and veggies. It's amazing how much our eating habits rub off on her. If I'm eating a cookie, by gosh she wants one, too. If it's an apple in my hand she has to have at least a slice in hers. Honestly, she's teaching me to eat better just so that I know that the food she gets is healthier!
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| Here she is showing down on leftover broccoli while ignoring the peanut butter and jelly sandwich. |
Nate and I have been talking about being healthier with our eating choices so one of the things I've tried to focus on has been to reduce and/or eliminate High Fructose Corn Syrup by not buying products that contain it. Holy Hannah! I had no clue how much stuff contained HFCS! It's making shopping a bit more difficult as I can't just breeze down aisles and toss food into the cart while mentally counting down the clock until Abby's "I don't want to be grocery shopping any longer" timer runs out.
Last night was fun with the neighborhood kids. Abby and I were outside "painting", or rather she was painting and I was sitting in a lawn chair reading a book, when a kid from next door came over to play with Abby. They saw the paint and grabbed a paintbrush and dived into painting as well. Then another kid showed up. Then another. In the end we had five kids in the driveway each with their own cup of paint just having a ball painting up the driveway. I should mention that this paint is actually sidewalk "chalk" paint where you mix equal parts corn starch and water and then add in food coloring. It brushes on as a liquid but as the water evaporates just the corn starch is left which makes it look almost like chalk. It easily sprays off the sidewalk and driveway, but does tend to stick around on skin a bit longer due to the food coloring. It's my most successful Pinterest pin yet!
Our water bill was almost double what it normally is so we're thinking we have a leak somewhere. I'm really hoping it's where Nate was recently digging to put in the new edges because if it's not we have no idea where it might be as there's no puddle of water to help guide us. Hopefully it's a quick fix so we can get in a bike ride and a swim this weekend!
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