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!

One Fish Two Fish

Greetings and good morning to everyone. Going to try to make this one quick as I eat my breakfast. Over the weekend, we had plans on as a family, going to the Farmer's Market Saturday morning, but because Mia tends to enjoy sleeping in, I got to thankfully enjoy watching the Chelsea game. First one of the season I got to watch! So, Jill went out to our local market and I stayed home watching the game :) Lousy 1st half, but much better 2nd. Hazard starting to finally make some runs towards the end of the 1st and in the 2nd, he was making his shots. Diego Costa got the first goal and Hazard secured the win with the 2nd one. The man is a genius with the ball. Can get around anyone to cross it and has a great shooting power. This weekend Chelsea face with two ex players on the team. Both strikers so we'll see what those guys have in store for us.
Everton

Sunday, I worked the early shift and when I was done, we spent a few hours at Jill's studio so she could catch up on work since she's been super busy.  I took Mia to the Pirates and Fairies event Tuesday at Fort Cushing park. She was looking forward to it for weeks. Of course what happens when you look forward to things? It rains. Luckily, she got to play long enough before the rain started picking up. My friend Nicole brought her little pirate kiddo and the kids had fun. It's a cool park. Jill still needs to check it out some time. Wednesday, we went to the park with her friends. It was great for the girls to catch up and play since they haven't seen us since we returned from Indy. All three of them start school next week, so Mia won't be seeing Gracie, the oldest anymore, but she'll luckily get to hang out with Hannah on her days that she's not in school. Those two seem to play better together anyway. After the park, we visited Grandma at work, then on a whim hit up the beach in Pewaukee. We didn't bring a lot, but she had fun playing in the sand. After we were done, we wandered down the pier so she could watch some people fish. I explained the process and what you have to do, she seemed intrigued. One gentleman that she was watching asks "I've got a small pole in my trunk her size if she'd like to give it a try?" She got really excited and I hooked her worm and she got to try fishing. She got REALLY close to catching some small ones, but in the end, gave some hungry fish some lunch. Her goal was to catch "dinner for Mommy to cook because she's the best cook ever". She gave him a high five and a thank you before we called it a day. I'm thinking we're going to need to find her a pole to fish now.

My Milwaukee FC MLS kit is coming along nicely. Hopefully complete before the end of the week. This weekend Jill's parents are coming up. Hopefully I"ll get to watch the Chelsea vs Everton game Saturday morning. I work 2-10 Sunday and Monday. Hooray for time and a half on the holiday. Blah. Thanks for reading everyone :)