Stuff we do

There's a free lunch program at the parks here. I think it's a national program. I know they have it in Lawrence, too. It's a great idea, except... Except my kids won't eat any of the food. Any of it. Period. Bella think it tastes funny, and Annika just doesn't eat food. So, on that front, it's a bust, but we go anyway because almost all our friends go too. It's about 20 minutes away from our house, so we try to make it every couple of days.

Today we got there late. It was one of those days where I wasn't sure if we were going to go, and then the girls wanted to take their scooters, which meant finding helmets, and the sand toys, and the frisbee, and the, and the, and the. I opened the car to let the hot air out and somehow ended up locking my keys in the house, so I had to find a way in, look around, decided to go get the girls from the car because it was so hot, brought them in, immediately found the keys, and repack everyone up.
For some reason, every time I say it's time to go, Annika decides that means it's time to lie on the floor and be silly. Yesterday she hung off her little Dora chair and made "ooh ahh ooh ahh" noises, and today she threw herself on the floor and pretended to be a noodle. It's not a tantrum, it's just a funny quirk? I don't know what it is.
By the time we got there, only Miss A's family was left from our friends. Bella moaned around for a while, and then went to play frisbee. It immediately got stuck in the tree- in the exact spot as yesterday. The kids launched shoes at the frisbee, and then threw the frisbee to get the stuck shoes out, and then the shoes to get the frisbee out. They laughed and laughed. It kept them entertained for almost 45 minutes. It was so funny- just about everyone at the park got involved... Including the poor girl who had a few flip flops land on her head. She was tall enough to pull the tree branch down and shake the remaining items out. All of us short people cheered. I had tried to pull knch things down with the top of the scooter, but still wasn't tall enough. Annika usually sits under the play structure, in the shade, and quietly digs in the sand for the entire time we're there. I've never seen anything like it.