Fastball is FINISHED for the season. Our family trekked to Mankato two weekends in a row, and got some good use of our pop up camper, which we parked at Bob's house for both weekends. Thanks, Bob and Kim! Mike was the pitcher for a team his old teammates put together for the second tournament weekend, and he had a lot of fun pitching. We had a nice time at the Children's Museum with Adryen, Darci, and Dustin. Bennett took a mini-session of gymnastics at The Little Gym, and had a great time. It was so fun to see him volunteer to be the first to do a stunt, and to hear him proclaim, "I did it!!!" after every forward roll, hang from the bars, etc.
We attended an ice cream social at Little Flowers, and met Annalise's new guide, Nadine. We had a few more playdates with classmates from Bennett's ECFE class this past school year. Annalise finished up a session of swimming lessons at Foss on Friday, and really made some great strides with putting her whole face in the water just over the past week or two.
Today was Annalise's first day of school, and she is attending all day!!!! I'm anticipating a very tired girl when Mike brings her home at 3:30 today. We had fun packing a lunch yesterday afternoon, and included a whole carrot- uncut. None of those baby carrots for this big girl!!
Bennett and I did a little Target shopping today, after our first conference with Teacher Lisa (who you may remember was Annalise's teacher too, when she was in Play Pals). We were looking for items for Bennett's big boy room, which is slowly coming together. We ordered bunk beds for the shared bedroom (Annalise's) this weekend, and they will arrive mid-October (BEFORE THE BABY- I'm telling you!!!).
The only other activity of note is our annual trip to the State Fair. Our kids enjoy it as much as we do- Annalise wanted to have cotton candy and rootbeer this year, and Bennett remembered Sweet Martha's cookies from last year. The kids went on the Giant Slide with Mike (since it had a sign cautioning against pregnant riding), and Bennett was the brave boy to try the bungee trampoline jumping in the Adventure Zone, right outside the grandstand. Annalise saw it first, and convinced us she HAD to try it, but then decided against doing so when she saw the tween-aged girls flipping forward and backward on the bungees, and thought she'd have to do that. Mike had already purchased the ticket, and Bennett said, "I'll do that!" And sure enough, he did. He waited in line, stood on the scale, handed his ticket to the ticket-taker, and waited behind two others for his turn. Then he climbed the ladder to the trampoline, and let some teenaged boy hook him into the harness. We were all amazed that this actually happened, remembering his freak out on the carousel at MOA over spring break in April, just a mere four + months ago.
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Such cute kids! Bennett looks sooo proud of himself!
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