What a weekend...

I recently heard someone refer to a "stay-cation." A vacation where you do not necessarily leave town, but do lots of cool stuff with home as your homebase. I think our weekend would qualify as that.

On Friday we went to the zoo. Now a day at the zoo is not so exciting for my girls, as they do that all the time, but this was a night. Tim's firm rented the zoo for the night. It is great. All the little "extras" (face painting, swan rides, pony rides) were included. Maura, literally, would get off the pony at the exit, run 20 feet to the entrance, beating the pony there, and hop on again. She did this for about 20 minutes. Live it up, because momma ain't paying $5.00 for you to go 50 yards on a pony. Mags did it around 3 times, but her love for the ride was not quite as strong, although she really looked like a natural on the horse. Sue could not get over it.

The girls got their faces painted. Mags wanted to be a butterfly. It was awesome. B got some flowers on her cheek. Maura wanted to be spider man??? I tried to talk her out of it... a princess, a butterfly, a bunny? Nope, she wanted spiderman. The girl did "spidergirl" for her. It was pink and black with some sparkles. She LOVED it. She also loved telling people she was a girl spider man. We stayed till around 8:30 and everyone did great 94% of the time. B wants to move and crawl at all times. being that the zoo floor is probably not the best place for her to crawl around, she was a little restless.

Sunday we went to a minor league Phillies games. It was fun, again, not so much for B, as baseball bleachers are not the best place to crawl around. Maggie was thrilled to climb up the moonbounce slide, but not as thrilled to come down. Sean had to go up and rescue her. We made it through the whole game with no ice cream or treats. i am not sure who was more disappointed, the girls or mommy!

Monday, Sean had off from work (one day between jobs) and we went to Dutch Wonderland. I love it there. It is clean, the rides are perfect for their age, and lots of shade. Luckily, my mom offered to watch b while we went (Amusement park grounds are also not the best place for little ones to crawl... really where is?). We stayed until about 3:30 and with just minor conflicts (Sean telling mo to tell them she was 2 if they asked... she was not happy about this), all was great! The girls had fun together, and we had fun watching them have fun. This day ended with ice cream. That made all us girls happy. Mags was asleep in about 10 minutes, Maura watched Frosty AGAIN, and b had a great time with Oba. Overall a perfect weekend. Back to the "grind" today. Thank goodness it is a short week... and so is next week. 4th of July!