We recently had a rare visit from Nana & Poppa WITHOUT Tia! Not sure we have ever had one of those before. 
Brianna had a great time visiting with her Nana & Poppa, and I believe they had a great time having Brianna all to themselves (Brianna is extremely fond of her Tia…). While here, Nana & Poppa got to do “puddle” time with Brianna. We walked all the way down to her school so we could play in the big puddles. Brianna LOVES wearing her bumble bee boots and playing in the puddles…
Heading out to find some puddles.
After playing in the puddles, Brianna cooled off inside with some play time with Nana,
and story time (one of her favorite activities) with Nana & Poppa.
We closed out the visit with a baseball game.
There was a 2 hour rain delay so we didn’t get to see much of the game, but Brianna had a pretty good time anyway. I think she spent most of her time playing with Nana – I am not sure she even noticed there was no game to watch! Oh, and the fact that Daddy got a treat helped too…
We had a wonderful Memorial Day weekend, and an even better Memorial Day. On Thursday before the weekend really got started, we headed to the local strawberry patch to pick strawberries one more time. Brianna was significantly less interested in picking this time (probably because they were harder to find), but she was still VERY interested in eating them…
We started the weekend having dinner with my friend Karen at our “walkable margaritas” restaurant. As an added bonus, there was a live concert in our neighborhood (the first summer concert of the season). The weather was very nice by then, so we hung out, listened to some jazz, and generally ran Brianna around to make sure she was good and ready for bed.
We spent most of Brianna’s sleeping times installing our new TV and associated electronics. Jason did a GREAT job not only getting the new TV set up in time for me to watch game 1 of the Stanley cup, but also getting all the wires hidden behind the walls and installing our network cable (read: he spent a lot of time in our crawl space – yuck!). It looks wonderful, and our new entertainment center was delivered today. So, tonight we will finish it all up – the house was a complete disaster for a few days, so I can’t wait to see how it looks when it is all done!
During Brianna’s awake times we did all kinds of things. The highlight, though, was another trip to the local museum on Memorial Day. I forgot my real camera, so I had to make do with my iPhone camera, which is not too good in low light, but you get the idea.
To Brianna’s right is a snapping turtle (he ducked his head and moved right before I took the picture…)
After running everywhere and exclaiming over everything, especially the sea horses and the fish, we went to the discovery area where kids are allowed to touch and play with everything. They have all kinds of things in there – fossils, costumes, books, puppets, some animals, etc. Brianna had a blast playing with the puppet fish with her Daddy!
They also had a snake height chart. As you can see in the second picture, Brianna is now in the range of a Northern Water snake (roughly 33″).
After her nap, we spent some time outside enjoying the cool weather. Brianna was fixated on her squirt bottle again. She went back and forth between squirting herself and squirting her Daddy!
Deep in thought over her squirt bottle…
gotta make sure we get Daddy right the first time!
It was all in good fun.
We were sad to see the weekend end, but we had a great time!
