Weekend with the girls

Sharon has jetted off to Minnesota for a baby shower leaving me with a Daddy-Daughters weekend. It's been a lot of fun so far. We went for a walk in the woods this morning. Sammi rode in the baby backpack and big girl Rachel walked. Rachel was surprised at how many hills we had to climb up. We ran across a dead mouse on the trail and Rachel said that was the first real mouse she'd ever seen outside of the Madeline movie. After a while we rested, ate peanut butter crackers and listened to a woodpecker peck some wood. I talked to Rachel about how much I like the woods and being out in nature, how this all real world and not man-made and that makes it special and precious. She said she really likes it in the woods too because she loves the green trees. And the woodpecker. The woodpecker was really cool. Sammi mostly just enjoyed the peanut butter crackers.

Sammi decided she wanted to walk on the way back and she did that for a while but then started demanding "Uppy!". So I carried her the rest of the way; she didn't want to get back into the backpack. We were all getting tired and hungry and were happy to see the van. When we got h ome, we had a nice lunch (cookies for desert!), and then all of us took a nap. Mine was the shortest and Sammi's slept the longest. Rachel cleaned her room while Sammi slept earning herself another cookie. Now Sammi is awake and the girls are playing with babies upstairs. Time for dinner, I think.

Tomorrow we're off to the Children's Museum.