Nice Start to Summer

This past week was pretty busy. Since I am off from school, all I have is work three (sometimes 4) times a week. With this extra time, I have been able to exercise more, and on Friday Alex and I went to the park (and had it all to ourselves!). But I am getting ahead of myself. Lets go back a bit. On Wednesday, my family got together to celebrate Mother's Day, and Alex got to spend some quality time with everyone. He, Tony and I, kicked the ball around, ran after each other like weirdos, and tackled each other to show who was boss. Then, Alex went down and was some pretty epic moral support as Tony pulled a large, dead branch out of one of the trees. They started breaking it apart and tossing the sticks in the water, which lead to a revelation. Alex now LOVES throwing sticks in the water with dad. Thursday morning he didn't want to get ready to go to school, he wanted to go with dad over to Grandpa's house and throw sticks in the water. Their bonding is so adorable. Later that evening, he was sharing some of his delicious chips with his cousin Megan, had a water fight with his cousin Lauren with water guns (she kinda kicked his butt in the water fight), and went for a walk with me. He went to bed that night tired, and the bathwater was very dirty. That is how you know it was a good day. Now on to Friday. I put him on my back, piggy back ride style, and walked down to the park. We were there for almost two hours, just playing, laying in the grass, looking at bugs, clearing away twigs and sticks from the playground area, and talking to insects. Seriously. There was a fly that kept bugging Alex while he was playing on the equipment, and his response was to start flapping his arms and saying "Buzzz buzzz buzzz buzzzz", and when I asked, "What?" he told me he was speaking fly, telling them to fly away. Oh Alex. We went and got a "scoopa ice cream" and then went home, where he really didn't want to do anything for the rest of the day, however his iPad got some serious play time. So needless to say, I am going to block out time this summer for some picnics in the park, some more outside family time, and of course, swimming time. Busy summer ahead of us, but it will be exciting!