Thursday - Sunday

We've had a busy weekend! On Thursday we babysat Jordan all morning. Usually Jordan likes to dress up as a doctor but I guess he's fallen under Lilly's spell and this time he chose to be the purple princess. While I felt a little funny helping him put on the dress I felt wrong telling him that dresses were for girls so I let it go. His mom thought it was very funny.
Thursday afternoon we babysat Elijah. They had fun playing at the park together.
Friday Lilly went to Gymboree for her gym class but wanted to leave early so we left and headed to the grocery store. Then we went for lunch at Panera bread (Mommy's blood sugar was crashing big time) and then finally home for a late nap. When Lilly woke up from her nap we went to Stephy's first USA swim meet for the Jersey Wahoos. I love swim meets! We were there about 2.5 hours and Lilly was a trooper. She loved cheering for Stephy during her 100 I.M.
Saturday morning we were supposed to have a yard sale on our block. We woke up to rain. Andy was determined to clean out the garage and basement so he persevered with the yard sale making a total of $12.75. He was very proud. He put the rest of the junk on the curb and within 5 minutes an old man stopped by and cleaned off our curb. Shoved it all in the back of his broken-down car. Here Andy is celebrating his earnings.
After the yard sale Lilly and I ran many many errands in the rain. It was not fun but they needed to be done and Daddy needed some time to study. He has a very big exam (Comprehensive Exam) this coming Friday (yes, on Halloween - ridiculous).

While Lilly was napping I headed out to Day 2 of Stephy's swim meet and Andy and Lilly met me there when she woke up. We were there about 3 hours and again, Lilly was a champ! Might as well get her used to the smell, heat, and noise of a swim meet.

Sunday we happened upon a Harvest Festival by chance. We had seen a sign for it hanging over the road but had no idea how great it would be! We were originally going to go to Boo at the Zoo at the Philadelphia Zoo but have recently cut all food dye from Lilly's diet and didn't think walking the zoo for candy was a great idea. We knew parking at the festival would be tough so we went an hour early and let Lilly play at the playground right by the festival so we could get a good parking spot. It worked out perfectly (and what a GORGEOUS day - 65 degrees and not a cloud in the sky).
Lilly met a little friend, DJ, that followed her all around the playground. It was cute. He even walked over to the festival with us.

Everything was FREE at the festival (finally our tax dollars put to good use). There was so much to do and many many giveaways. We came home with bags of "stuff." Here is Lilly (and DJ) painting a pumpkin.

Lilly loves pony rides! She went all by herself like a big girl on this cute little pony. I think she needs her very own horse ;-).

Andy would know but I think this is the mascot for the high school that Andy attended...

There was a big obstacle course that Lilly of course loved.

We couldn't miss out on the "hockasize!" Lilly loves to exercise. This was a facility called My Gym that was advertising and had a balance beam, bar, and trampolene for the kids. Lilly did all 3 stations.
She even wanted to rock climb. They had a big rock wall and you had to be 36 inches to climb. Lilly is 36 inches so she qualified! The guy didn't believe me that she was tall enough and said it's his smallest climber ever. He said, "Are you fearless Lilly?" and she said, "Yes."

Before heading home Lilly checked out the fire trucks and got her very own Cherry Hill EMT hat and some goodies from a fire fighter/EMT.

I love having a great day together especially when it's unplanned. We had so much fun at the farm and it was nice to be together since our lives are so hectic right now.