We had a very fun weekend of outdoor activities. We pretty much spent out whole weekend playing outside. On Saturday we woke up and headed out the door shortly after breakfast. We took a walk, we played in the leaves, we mowed the lawn and leaves and bagged them up for the compost pile. We took them to the city compost pile. Upon arriving there, Gracie got all excited and said "a farm". Well not quite.
After nap, we decided to take her to this little zoo and hiking area about 10 miles away, but when we got there at 4:10 p.m. we were disappointed to find that the zoo closes at 4 p.m. So we hiked a little way to a picnic area with a playset that had a slide and swing. On the walk through the trees I kept telling Jeff to watch for walnuts (I'm even more cautious about us even stepping on them being I saw Gracie licking the bottom of her shoe the other day). We get Gracie up to the top of the slide and then Jeff spies a walnut right by where she would come down. I of course go to investigate and find walnut guts smeared down at the bottom of the slide. Okay there will be no sliding all the way down this slide. We let Gracie go halfway down and let her go to the swings instead. A little girl named Haley spies us and comes over, she goes down the slide through the walnut juice, now she is contaminated...Gracie is excited to see this little "friend" and goes to hold her hand. We work so hard to help Gracie have peer interaction and here she is very social with Haley, and she is contaminated with walnut guts that could send us to the ER. So I wipe Gracie's hand down and explain to Haley why I must do it. Haley seems to get it and then points to a big allergic reaction around her neck from her necklace. Haley asks if Gracie can talk and how old she is. I tell Haley that Gracie is 4 and I watch Haley's eyes get very big. Haley is 7 and a little smaller than Gracie. We didn't stay very long and part of the reasoning was just my own nervousness with the whole walnut thing. I hate that I have to be so careful about that.
We were outside until well after dark, we did a little garage cleaning and Gracie had great fun just hanging out in the garage and listening to music. We would occasionally have to take a walk to the end of the block and look at the big blow up pumpkin or the Halloween lights and decorations along the way.
On Sunday Jeff had to work, so Gracie and I went back to the zoo to see the animals. Her favorites were the eagles that kept giving her a stern talking too. Gracie loved this, she would laugh and give it right back to them. The turkey vulture seemed to be putting on a show for Gracie and I think that might have been her most favorite animal of the day, followed closely by the owls and the cow that licked her hand.
After the zoo we headed to the mall to pick up socks, Gracie is outgrowing all of those too. Then lunch and home for a 20 minute nap. Then it was back outdoors, but it got too hot for Gracie. I put her in the stroller and took her to the local schoolyard playset that she loves so much, but she didn't want to get out and play. That never happens, so we zipped back home and I stuck her in the tub to cool her off a bit. That did the trick, suddenly she had a ton of energy again. Gracie was excited to see daddy come home for supper and she had a good evening.
Gracie fell asleep very quickly last night and slept through until 3:30 a.m., she was awake for 30 - 45 minutes and then fell back to sleep. She is sleeping so much better and doesn't cough all night long. She is breathing much easier too. She did wake up with a bloody nose this morning and every time I thought I had it stopped she would blow her nose and it would start up all over again.
Gracie was excited to go to school this morning. With smiles she told me "Gracie bus".
I hope you had a great weekend too.
Love,
Lisa, Jeff, and Gracie
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