Beautiful weather!

We have been enjoying this wonderfully warm weather all week.  We found a beach near our house and went a couple of times this week. Makena loves it!  She splashes through the water, plays in the sand, and just has an all around good time.  The best part about this beach is that it was a park first, so there is a nice playground area for us to play in.  They have it separated between big kids and toddlers so we don't have to worry about those big 8 year olds running us down!  Of course all she wanted to do in the playground was swing.  Go figure.  She hated swinging for the first 16 months of her life, and now the child is addicted.  I'm pretty sure she would swing all day as long as I brought her food and water.  She already gets water when she's swinging, so now all I need to do is give her the snack cup and we'll be good to go.  Too bad they don't make an automatic outdoor swing, that would be the life.  I could sit back and read next to her all day and not have to do any work!  Oh, to make it even better I could get a tv with elmo on and she would never want to leave.

We are heading up to Grandma and Grandpa's this weekend for some more lake fun!  We were going to wait since it was a holiday weekend, but we are booked up for the following couple of weekends, so we are going to fight the crowds for a weekend of fun.  I know grandma will have all kinds of things for Makena to do, since there are SO many toys up there!!  Makena's favorite toy last weekend was the bubble machine.  "Bubbles, bubbles, bubbles"  I can hear it already.  I hope to get up there early enough today to play outside a bit before Makena's bedtime, but we'll have to wait and see.  Our departure all depends on Jared's "out of work" time.  He was hoping for 2, but he had to re-arrange some meetings in order for that to happen.  We have our fingers crossed.

Oh, we also went to a playdate in St. Paul this past week.  It was almost all babies, so Makena wasn't too impressed,  and it was nap time, so that wasn't the best for us.  We did, however, get to pick up Jared and have lunch downtown with him.  We've never done that before, it was fun.  Perhaps next time we do that we will hit up the children's museum too.  She loves to crawl around there.  I should wrap this up and make sure I have everything ready to go for the weekend!