On the Go

This is still on the day of the park/Whole Foods trip. Josie is a walker and Eddie would push another kid out of the way to get the last seat if he thought he could get away with it. She was happy to get out of the stroller to walk up the hill on the way home. Eddie didn't want to until I created the game of follow the cracks in the road. It worked like a charm and I happily pushed an empty double stroller (still weighing in about 25+ pounds) up the hill chasing 2 kids who were chasing each other. Damm, I hate that hill.

Then today, the weather was FABULOUS. 80 degrees with very low humidity. Until we walked out the door at 1:30. Then it felt much hotter. I had the bright idea to go with a girlfriend and her two kids to ride the local trolley to the end of the line and back, stopping for a stroll at the end. She did not bring a stroller for her two boys, who are the same age (roughly) as Eddie and J. My kids were very nicely taking turns in the stroller, which surprised the heck out of me and hers were happily walking along. Next time, we are going to try and go sans stroller with them. She promises to help carry the kids (although I hope it doesn't come to that). I think it's because she doesn't want to deal with her boys begging for a ride.

She wisely brought cupcakes to bride the kids to hike the 50+ steps up the local hill. [as an aside when I was in college I walked 100+ steps several times/day to get to classes after having grown at the top of a hill and SWEARING I would never do this, I am at the top of a big hill].

The 4 and 5 yo RAN up the steps and then ran all around once they got to the top. Decided to carry the sroller to the stop. They struggled a bit with it, but it looked like two guys moving a piece of furniture up the steps--lady, stop trying to get us to look at the camera, can't you see we're focused?

Den gets home tmr night--right after bedtime :)