Today is also E's 6th week birthday. *sigh* My maternity leave is now half over. I have 6 weeks left. I better cherish all the time I have left with my kiddos. I love my job and we really need it for the great insurance, but I sure love my time with my kids.
Wednesdays are usually our library days and research days for learning. It's summertime and we took the day off. We joined several friends and went to the pool at the GSR. I've never been there in all the years that I've lived here. The kids had a wonderful time and J did not want to leave after 4 and a half hours. L had a good time too, but he preferred plating in the sand around the pool instead of the water. He's a bit shy and there were a lot of kids there. I stayed in the shade with E and watched the smaller kiddos of our friends while they swam. It was a good day, and J is getting better at swimming all the time.
After the water play, we came home and rested for a little while. That evening was to be my first hike with my hiking group after my pregnancy and birth of E. It was a 6 mile hike and it was great. We hiked Thomas Creek to Dry Pond to White's Creek Loop. The hike starts off moderate heading up the creek, then gets a little harder as it climbs to a clearing. Trail then descends into the Whites Creek canyon where we followed the Whites Creek Trail back to Timberline. Mileage is about 6+ miles and took about 3 hours hike time. We also took in an extra peak that added another 30 minutes to the hike, but we were marching ahead of our expected time and had the extra time to to do it. I had so much fun. There were 9 of us, and two were my former hiking buddies and I was so excited to see them. This has been the best group of people to get to know. If you haven't tried meetup.com, you should, lots of great people and all kinds of activities and clubs/groups to join.
I was lucky that this was my mom's night out. My DH (darling husband) stayed with our 3 kiddos. His first time all by himself with all 3. He did great. I have been pumping extra milk for E, so he didn't have to panic when she was hungry.
Oh yeah, back to Tuesday... the book club was so fun! J had a great time discussing the first 4 books of the series they are reading. He was so nervous about going, but he really enjoyed it. At 7, he's definitely the youngest reader attending with the average being 12 years old, but I think it'll be good for him. It's being held in a small church and one of the classrooms had toys, so L played with legos and ate snacks with the bigger kids. He asked if we could go back again "tomorrow." L asks that when he has a really good time.
I loved loved loved reading your Blog Arinka!
ReplyDeleteOf course we would love it if y'all came here for the 4th. I got a lot of chicken to barbeque (just in case) and will make a bunch of macaroni or potato salad too. We could eat early to have plenty of time to go see fireworks. Like eating after the beach/kyaking; works up an appetite :)