Kids slept in again, love it! This morning I rode my bike a bit. Then we were out and about early to head to the RSM Lagoon. We had a great time. No one was there-we basically had the place to ourselves. The kids were all excited to go in the water. Nicole just loves the water so much. They were having fun running into the water. The lagoon is such a great place to take the kiddos. We played ball in the water, built sand castles, and buried and unburied daddy in the sand. We had lunch there too. Then took showers. Justin wasn’t too happy about the shower though. We stopped at Toys R Us in Mission Viejo on the way home. We are planning to get the kiddos new beds. We found Diego and Dora ones. So Toys R Us had the Diego one. I think we have to order Nicole’s online. The kids had a great time at Toys R Us. It was there grand re-opening, so they had hand painting. Nicole got hello kitty and Justin got Nemo. The kids played in the store. They loved playing on the cars then bikes. The only way I was going to look around was if they kids biked around. So we biked up and down all the aisles. Then the characters came out. There was yellow sunshine care bear, star wars characters, Strawberry Shortcake, and Geoffrey the giraffe. The kids were not too happy with the characters. Justin actually gave Strawberry Shortcake a high 5. Nicole was upset when she noticed the yellow care bear was behind her while on the bike. We decided to stop at Dairy Queen after and get some ice cream. It was a fun family day but we were all ready to come home. At home the kiddos watched some TV so they could get a rest. After we played at home for a bit, read some books, played in the futon room. Then we were off again. We wanted to try to go to the orange balloon at the great park again. We got there early enough that we were number 40 on the list. We had a picnic dinner with the kiddos and then just played on the grass. There were some entertainers out there. These people in a big sheet sort of thing (hard to explain) at first the kiddos were scared but then they liked them. Well liked them enough to give them high fives. One of the people were doing summer saults so Justin followed and did one too. The kiddos just ran around together and took everything in. We finally got on the balloon. They kids as they said it were super excited. They loved it. They commented on everything they could see below and when it was over, the kids said “I do it again”. It was really a fun night. Someday we will get the kiddos in bed earlier but somehow lately they aren’t in bed until 8:30. Everyone is sleeping 🙂
August 30th, 2008 by melissa