Step Right Up

Good morning everyone! Hope you all enjoyed the week and your weekend. On Wednesday afternoon, Mia hung out for about an hour at the park with Cecilia and her little sister. The weather was hot, so the girls didn't last terribly long. At one point, Cecilia took her Mom's phone and set up the stop watch to take times to see how fast Mia and her could sprint from the light post to the end of the sidewalk where I was sitting. Mia found out the hard way that running in flat sandals was a bad idea.

Later, we met up with Jill and went to the Waukesha County Fair. Both of us don't care for the fairs local or state, but since that's all Mia's been talking about lately, we did the county fair on 'Dollar Day' where it was only $1 to get in for Jill and I and only $1 for parking. Mia was free. Sweet. Mia didn't want to do any rides AT ALL but played a few of the insanely frustrating games. I tell you, the lack of enthusiasm from some of the carnies is pathetic. Mia loved the baby sheep, bunnies, chicks and cows. Didn't stay too long before having our fill of the fair.

We drove back to the studio for a bit so Jill could finish whatever she needed to work on. I got a message from Mia's long time friend Olivia's Dad telling me that he had the kids and wanted to check to see if we wanted to meet at the park that night. Mia was through the roof excited so we packed up and drove to the park. I had to run home and grab Remi but anyways, the girls were super excited to see each other again. It had been too long since they saw each other and they all played till about 9:30pm. Luckily, Mia was coated in bug spray so she didn't mind how dark it as getting at the playground. Olivia gave Mia a very belated bag of gifts which she loved before they said their goodbyes. These two have always had such a great relationship and it was fun to see them playing together again picking up where they left off.

Friday, Jill and Mia had a Descendants 2 party. They watched the sequel to the first one, had popcorn etc. Saturday, Mia woke up WAY too early at 6:00am due to some bad dreams. We had some family art time. Mia sculpted, I drew and Jill painted while listening to music. It was pretty nice except Mia getting frustrated with the hot glue. Later, we had my parents over for dinner which was pretty good. Sunday, Jill made some macarons before I left for work.  Chelsea successfully signed a new striker. Morata. Stoked we got the Real Madrid player and hope he can fill in the striker shoes Costa did.

This week is my birthday. 34. Blah. Doing dinner at Cafe Hollander so I'm pretty stoked to try the new rooftop restaurant. Mia's school friends are all at Girl Scout camp this week. Don't think we'll be doing many play dates with them. Nothing planned for the weekend yet.

That's all for now, thanks for reading!