I think that I've posted on this before, but RI has a random holiday known as Victory Day. It used to be called Victory over Japan Day, as it supposedly marks the day when Japan surrendered and effectively ended WW II (impressed with my history knowledge, huh? Wikipedia is a very nice thing, my friends). Anyway - for whatever reason, RI is the only state that celebrates it and I am completely ok with this. That said, Victory Day was this last Monday, so Lexi and the 2 girls flew out from Houston on Thursday afternoon and spent the long weekend at our house. We had a great time! The kids all got along really well and have started to get to that point where they enjoy playing with one another. Friday, we went to a small zoo near (and, by near, I mean 40 minutes) our house.
After we saw all of the animals, we rode on the merry go round...
And, then took a ride on the train. The cart that we rode in was about the size of a roller skate, so I wasn't able to get a great angle for any good pictures.
Clearly, all of the kids, including Miss Charlotte loved it...
Saturday was a big day! For, it was the day of the LC Family Chicken BBQ! I know - you can hardly contain your excitement. Basically, it is a festival type thing where they grill a bunch of chickens and have a bunch of things for kids to do and some booths that they sell things. We have never really done it before, so I figured this would be a perfect opportunity, as it would keep the kids busy for an entire morning. Before the BBQ, we went to the playground, which was right next door.
After the playground, we assumed the BBQ started at 11 am, but it didn't start until noon, which worked out well, as we were the first ones to get on the bouncy house and to eat! The kids loved the bouncy house...
Then ,we got lunch and ourselves a little picnic...
After lunch, the kids went back to the bouncy house and then moved onto a game where you throw a bean bag in a hole and win a prize. The guy basically let the kids get as close as they wanted to, so everyone got a prize.
Although, Alex couldn't decide what he wanted. The duck hat? Or, the water bottle with the curly straw. He went with the hat...
Sunday, in true "Hollands have company, so mother nature is going to piss you off and give you bad weather" fashion, it poured. Like, all day. Poured. All in all, it wasn't bad. It was nice having a chilled out day inside and it gave us a chance to just play with the kids and not have to worry about going anywhere. Although, the New England in me started to set in and I was feeling the need to get out of the house and do something, so given that it was still 80 degrees outside, I took the kids out to play in the rain. And, of course, the rain wasn't wet enough, so we needed to play with the sprinkler, the pool and water toy as well...
Later that day, it cleared up enough for us all to go for a walk in the neighborhood. As you can imagine with 2 2-year-olds, a 4 year-old and a 6-month old, you don't go too far very fast.
But, they did manage to find a puddle and all loved jumping and running through that.
Monday, we headed to the beach. Unfortunately, this was the hottest day that they were there and that, combined with no breeze and low tide, led to a rather unfortunate stench, but we managed.
The little kids weren't huge fans of the waves, so we took them to the stream, which they all loved. However, given the low tide, the stench here was unbearable, so the trip the stream was cut a bit short, much to their dismay...
The rest of the weekend was spent doing lots of outdoor eating and drinking- something that Lexi hasn't been able to do in Houston because it has been so flippin' hot there for the last couple of months. It worked out nicely, as the kids were able to make a mess and then get down and play even if we were still eating.
And, once again, Miss Charlotte loved being part of the action as well. I swear - she may be the happiest, most content baby on the planet. The child is perfectly content 95% of the day and all you have to do is look her direction and she gives you this big smile...
It was a great weekend all around! Alex has been asking where "Abel" is every day since they left. He just won't buy the fact that she is at home. We're already looking forward to Thanksgiving when all of them will be together again!
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