Saturday we spent the whole day out of the house. It was a spontaneous decision, we started the morning thinking we would go get a cup of coffee and a muffin for breakfast at Starbucks. Oliver loves the cinnamon swirl coffee cake. Then we stopped by Target to pick up a few things I needed around the house, mostly cleaning supplies. Across the street is a Borders, and Oliver wanted to show dad the place where we went to “bookclub” aka story time earlier in the week. Since the only thing we’d had for breakfast was a measly muffin we were hungry, so we moved on to the Mall food court.

Although we didn’t know about it before hand, the Mall was having some kind of shop till you rock thing going on. Tents with Wii game competitions, a modeling competition, and a few stages were set up. We had our lunch, the little one discovered a love of bottled water

and Oliver consumed more food (the rest of that bowl of pasta after eating an entire slice of sbarro pizza) than I have ever seen him eat in one sitting.

On our way out we stopped into a few stores, but didn’t buy anything.
If that wasn’t enough, we did have plans to go to a BBQ at the house of a playgroup friend. We went home for about an hour, in an attempt to have the boys nap before the BBQ. They didn’t so we headed back out, picking up a bag of chips on the way to the BBQ.
Oliver played hard. The backyard was beautiful, very open with lots of room for kids to run and play. The next place we live I want one just like it! Lack of nap and lots of fun caught up with us though and both boys fell asleep in the car on the way home. That’s fine by me, early bedtimes are always appreciated. Oliver was so tired he slept in, nearly 2 hours longer than usual. Every weekend should be so much fun.














