This saturday, I had to take car of the girls because Kate & Jon were getting ready for lunch company. It was a beautiful day so I decided to take them down to the playground. As we are walking in the park on the way to the playground, I let the girls indulge in one of their favorite pastimes...chasing birds. They LOVE it. Their faces are pure joy when they are chasing after those pigeons. Well, today the pigeons decided to take their revenge. As I'm gathering up the girls to get a move on to the park, bird lets loose on Elsa's head. It was the most massive bird poop I've ever seen! I felt this thing woosh past my arm as it got her right smack dab in the center of her head. Elsa literally didn't know what hit her, so I was trying really hard to remain calm and not freak her out. So, I take her into the public bathroom and give her head a wash. Sooooo gross. Thankfully it just got her head and not on any of her clothes, so it wasn't too hard to get her cleaned up.
After the bird poop incident, I made the executive decision of lunch first and then the park. As a treat I took them to McDonald's. And as we are eating Elsa gets into a waving contest with this young woman at another tabel. After a couple minutes, the young woman comes up and asks to take Elsa's picture (a common occurence). Elsa seems ok with it and since she asked instead of trying to do it on the sly, which people do, I say sure. She takes the picture and goes back to her table. Another two minutes later and she's back again, this time with happy meal toys she had bought for both girls...I wish strangers would buy me gifts!
The girls were being super good and Elsa had gotten pooped on by a bird, so I bought them ice cream comes and we started walking to the park. As we are walking, they decide they want to sit and watch the cars go by, which I'm ok with. So we are sitting there on the grass next to the side walk, watching people and cars go by, when this fella walks by. He's just a hair to tall to technically be little person, and the girls love that he's just about their size. Thank GOD he was turkish becuase Ruby just starts asking, loudly, "why is that man so little? what's wrong with his hand? why is he only elsa's and my size?" and so on. And he in turn is saying how cute the girls are in turkish...it was all i could do to seperate them all and get the girls to the park.
The park is fine. The walk home is fine, mainly becuase we took a cab up the hill. We get home and the guests are still here. Elas runs outside and announces to everyone that "a bird pooied on my head!" That was my cue to go outside and lure the girls back inside with juice boxes and crackers. At this point, the girls are pooped, so I put a movie on for them. We then, all three of us, proceed to fall asleep on the couch.
After the bird poop incident, I made the executive decision of lunch first and then the park. As a treat I took them to McDonald's. And as we are eating Elsa gets into a waving contest with this young woman at another tabel. After a couple minutes, the young woman comes up and asks to take Elsa's picture (a common occurence). Elsa seems ok with it and since she asked instead of trying to do it on the sly, which people do, I say sure. She takes the picture and goes back to her table. Another two minutes later and she's back again, this time with happy meal toys she had bought for both girls...I wish strangers would buy me gifts!
The girls were being super good and Elsa had gotten pooped on by a bird, so I bought them ice cream comes and we started walking to the park. As we are walking, they decide they want to sit and watch the cars go by, which I'm ok with. So we are sitting there on the grass next to the side walk, watching people and cars go by, when this fella walks by. He's just a hair to tall to technically be little person, and the girls love that he's just about their size. Thank GOD he was turkish becuase Ruby just starts asking, loudly, "why is that man so little? what's wrong with his hand? why is he only elsa's and my size?" and so on. And he in turn is saying how cute the girls are in turkish...it was all i could do to seperate them all and get the girls to the park.
The park is fine. The walk home is fine, mainly becuase we took a cab up the hill. We get home and the guests are still here. Elas runs outside and announces to everyone that "a bird pooied on my head!" That was my cue to go outside and lure the girls back inside with juice boxes and crackers. At this point, the girls are pooped, so I put a movie on for them. We then, all three of us, proceed to fall asleep on the couch.
The dedicated nanny hard at work
Later that evening, I'm sitting outside with the family while the girls are eating dinner. We're talking about summer plans when Ruby speaks up and announces that one day she wants to be big and fat like an elephant. She then turns to Jon and says, "And Daddy, I want you to build a stable for me to live in." I just about died laughing. I left the table as Kate and Jon were trying to keep straight faces while questioning Ruby's decision to be as big as an elephant one day.
It was an all around entertaining day.
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