Kate & Mommy's Morning of Fun

This morning started off like any other Thursday morning - rush, rush, rush - get out the door to school. Kate only goes to school on Mondays and Wednesdays, so she was with me this morning. A few weeks ago, she would've been perfectly content to drop off Brett and come with me. She's turned a serious corner and now LOVES school! She knows the kids in her class and likes to see them and give them hugs (and two of the boys like to give her kisses). So, needless to say, she wanted to stay at school today. I convinced her that we would listen to "her" music in the car and go to the new library and do other fun things, so she reluctantly agreed. We headed off to the new library that just opened up right down the road. It's much smaller than the usual main branch that we go to, but I thought it had a nice set-up, especially for the smaller kids. Then, we made a quick trip to Target (when do we NOT make a quick trip into Target?!). Finally, we were off to the Farmer's Market. It was definitely hustling and bustling today with lots of people and lots of school field trips and stuff, but Kate seemed to really enjoy walking around and checking it all out. I was mainly going to look for mums, and I let Kate choose the colors - she chose purple and yellow. Memere and Poppy will be so proud! While we were checking out all of the mums, Kate found thsese enormous pumpkins! She was completely enthralled with how big these pumpkins were! I was so tempted to buy one - they really weren't that expensive, but I resisted, and I ran out of cash after buying mums!

Kate was so good at the Farmer's Market, and we still had 2 hours until we had to pick up Brett, so I told her that we could go back to the new park beside the new library. She said she had fun at the park, but in reality, I should've checked it out before we went. It really wasn't appropriate for her age - the stuff they did have for her age was really boring, and the stuff that she wanted to do was really meant for much bigger kids, but we managed and I think it was decent. I don't know that we'll make a special trip back to that particular park, but she still had fun. This chair thingie spins around using their body weight - she thought it was cool until she got really dizzy and couldn't stop spinning!

This was kind of the same thing, but a stand-up spinning thing - she was NOT impressed at all with this one!

These steps have springs or something and she could bounce on them if she was holding my hands. That was definitely the favorite activity of the morning, I think!