This is how our Summer Fun Day went. The kids of course thought that Summer Fun Day should start on Thursday night. So, after dinner with friends Grampa and I went and picked the kids up. We started Summer Fun Nite with a trip to Freddy's for frozen custard. What better way to start summer?
We then went home to build a fort to sleep in. Grampa did a great job with this. He turned all the furniture in the living room around backwards and draped sheets, blankets over the top. Lots of room - just like the kids wanted. They and I were going to camp out in the living room for the night. Sure was glad Grampa made that fort so big. The kids had plenty of room as each one was snugged up tight against me in the middle. We watched TV for a little while. I discovered they have a kids version of Saturday Night Live. It is called Incredible Crew. I don't watch Saturday Night Live because it confuses me. I never know if it's a real commercial or fake. Incredible Crew wasn't quite as bad and I found it truly funny. Guess that's because I'm still a kid at heart. now sometime during our TV watching Scotland was mentioned. Remington says you're from there Mom said so. Me: whatever!
Now, sleeping in the fort means you have to tell ghost stories. Lily started out with a story that I'm not sure what it was but it went on and on. Finally it's my turn and I tell them a story and my voice gets softer and softer and there's a cat (think Psycho Cat who is on corner of sofa watching us) in the story and of course a "thump thump" . Story ends with me yelling MEOW and Lily jumping.
Remington wakes up first in the morning and turns TV on and again they are talking about Scotland. Again Remington says: That's where you're from, Grandma. What was it like when you lived there? Me: Where are you getting this from? I've never been to Scotland. Remington: Mom said you were from Scotland and used to live there. Note to self: find out what kind of nonsense K.C. is telling these kids. We have a breakfast of pancakes and kids decide they want to take a bath.
After baths and dressing we make sandwiches for a picnic. Lily makes hers as half peanut butter and half chocolate (Nutella is chocolate peanut butter to the kids). She puts some fresh strawberries in the middle. Remington has one chocolate sandwich and one chocolate sandwich with strawberries. We then head to QT to each get a drink and a bag of chips. As we are leaving a lady asks if the kids would like to pet a horse. She had taken a couple of horses to some school and gave them rides for last day of school. Remington and Lily were able to climb up on wheel well of truck and stroke the horses necks. What a great start to the day.
We then went to the park where they played and played. We ate our lunch then headed off to Woodward Park to explore. We spent over an hour wandering around Woodward Park, swinging on the swings, climbing over rocks, watching tadpoles in the creek, following paths, feeding the squirrels. Finally we head back home where we set up Hillbilly Golf. At one point I ask Lily if she was having a great First Day of Summer Fun Day. She replies: yes, but actually it started last night with Grampa. I think Grampa just wanted to have some Summer Fun with us.
It was a great start to Summer.
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