Fish Are Friends Not Food

Morning everyone! Hope you all enjoyed the weekend. Monday started with the FIRST EPL game of the year for Chelsea taking on West Ham. I missed the game sadly, but Mia asked my Dad throughout the afternoon who was winning. The Blues picked up the win and started the season out well :) Tuesday, Mia went fishing with her Grandpa Chicago. She went to a place in New Berlin and caught 7 bullheads. She had a blast and I wish I could have been there to see her bagging fish left and right.
Wednesday, she met up with Olivia and her bro at the park. What would normally be a typical day at the park was anything but that. The girls started with playing Pokemon Go! on Olivia's Dad's phone and soon moved to the playground. We were hanging out in the shade while the kids played. Every once in a while, I'd hear "LEAVE US ALONE OKAY??" coming from Olivia. Wasn't sure what was going on. Turns out some boys were being sassy with the girls, and they were yelling at them. We kept a close eye on the situation. Eventually Gavin came over and was telling us his sister was being sassy to the boys. This kid has no problem sticking up for herself. Both girls came over soon after exclaiming that they were being mean, that one boy laughed at Mia when she "almost fell" and that they weren't playing nice. THEN Mia says "IM GONNA GO TELL THOSE BOYS TO KNOCK IT OFF!" Apparently Mia gained some sort of a backbone to obnoxious boys. In this moment, we realized that the girls were just as much in the wrong as whatever the boys were doing. They weren't letting the boys off without getting an ear full. Sigh. They soon left to their picnic and the kids went back to playing.

Saturday morning, we packed up the car and left for Illinois to visit some friends. They live very close to Iowa so we spent some time there as well. The kids had a lot of fun, and Mia LOVES their little dog that would fetch the ball every time.  Mia really wanted to swim, but the weather was pretty iffy. Both kids ended up playing in the undies in this lake. They had a total blast. We went to the Children's Museum yesterday and it was pretty close to the big one in Milwaukee. A little smaller but just as nice. All of the buildings were connected and had telephone lines so you could call the kids vet, grocery store, etc etc. Mia really liked the Think Station where everyone in the room had to wear safety glasses, they get their own REAL work bench and got to hammer, glue, saw, etc whatever they wanted. It was fun watching Mia become "Tinker bell" and build something straight from her head. She made something to carry her rock collection and a piece of wood to hang items from. Turned out pretty cool. We had lunch and soon got on the road and headed home. It was about 3 1/2 hours back to Wisco. Mia fell asleep in the first 10-15 minutes. Tired little girl. Spent the rest of the night hanging out and figuring out the rest of the week.

I missed the Chelsea/Watford match Saturday but I heard they won and watched the highlights last night. Another solid win. This week, Mia's hanging out with her favorite crazy person Irianna at Malone park tomorrow morning. Later tomorrow, she's got picture day followed by a kindergarten play date meeting new friends and parents. Jill's taking her to that so hopefully it goes well. She's pretty excited. Wednesday I'm finishing my 1/2 sleeve and this weekend, Jill's working.

Have a great week everyone and thanks for reading!