Canche Chronicles: Everyone goes to the splash pad

Thursday morning we had been invited to go to the Splash Pad with a bunch of other moms and their kids. We packed a lunch and headed out around 9:30. Emily had slept in until almost nine so I decided to just skip her morning nap and stay for the whole morning and lunch. It turns out that a lot of people decided to do that on Thursday. When we got there two buses were just pulling up with a bunch of kids from one of the elementary schools in Longview. There were a lot of kids. Most of them were pretty well behaved and there weren't too many running around and knocking kids over (although there were some). The biggest downside was that it was just really loud. I could hardly have a conversation with the moms next to me because of all the laughing, shrieking, and yelling. Haley played with her buckets and spent a lot of time just staring at other children. Amanda was there with Evelyn and Lucy so she ran around with Lucy for a while and Meagan was there with Leeland so she spent some time with him too.

We ended up eating lunch rather early because Haley was hungry. She has never seemed to enjoy peanut butter and jelly but she was hungry enough to get over it because she ate almost an entire sandwich! Emily also ate pieces of sandwich and some of a banana that I had brought. There was a short interlude where all of the Longview kids stopped playing and ate lunch and then it was a lot quieter. We decided to head out around 1 because it was time for naps. Unfortunately, that was the time when the buses pulled up and all of the school kids left too. I guess next time we'll show up at 1 or something.

Haley and Emily were pretty tired after their busy afternoon. Haley ended up sleeping almost three hours and Emily slept four! Emily actually didn't sleep four hours straight. She woke up after an hour and a half but still seemed tired so I fed her and put her back in her crib and she went right back to sleep. After Haley woke up she hung out in the kitchen while I made dinner. When David got home we ate dinner together and then sat out on the porch for a while. I had made some no-bake cookies for dessert and Bible study and for Haley they are so messy to eat so that's why we went outside. Then David stayed with the girls while I went and picked up Ella and Chloe for Bible study.

While I did Bible study with the girls, David bathed Haley and Emily and then they watched a Dora movie on the laptop in our room. Then David gave the girls applesauce for snack before bed and put them down. I think we're going to be feeding applesauce to Emily every night before bed now because she slept through the night until 8:30! She had been waking up once during the night around 5.

Haleyism:
Today Emily was in her high chair waiting for me to bring her food and she was fussing. Haley walked up and said "it's okay Emily!" Then she went and found her paci and put it on the tray. Haley is a great big sister.

Emilyism:
Today David was playing wild with Emily and had her all crazy and upside down and she threw up in his face. We'll see if he's learned his lesson!