May Play

Well, the month of May certainly did fly by! And we had a lot of fun playing with friends and family. My brother (uncle Andrew) and I took Gracie and my kid sister Maddy to the Everett Children's Museum, and I do believe Gracie had a great time!! In fact, she probably would have pitched a tent and stayed the night had it been an option!

We spent some QT with Grandma "GG" (Gracie's Great-Grandma). Grandma Janis (or "GG") is by far one of the funniest people I know and Gracie LOVES being around her! Grandma always has something up her sleeve to make you laugh. On this particular day she had bought some goofy glasses and enlisted the help of Gracie and Maddy to perform a little skit - it was very funny and cute!

At the end of the month Mark and I decided to take Gracie on a hunt for roasting sticks and firewood in the woods behind our house. We grabbed Gracie's wagon and a hatchet and set off on our "s'mores adventure". It didn't take long to gather the firewood and sticks because a recent windstorm had done most of the work for us - thank you Mother nature! When we got back home we took some left over stones we had from a recent landscaping project and built a little fire pit. Then my handsome Eagle Scout put his skills to the test and built us a toasty little fire. We each taught Gracie our "trick" for roasting the perfect marshmallow: Mark told her to be patient, "the perfect marshmallow takes time". I told her to stick it in the flame and catch it on fire - "sure, it gets a little burnt, but that's what tastes so yummy". Gracie didn't have the patience for waiting and thought the burnt marshmallows looked "disgusting" (her words). In the end, we found out Gracie likes to eat marhmallows straight from the bag. We also learned that not everyone likes s'mores... huh, go figure. So, the s'mores didn't tickle Gracie's taste buds and it started to rain towards the end but all in all it sure was fun!!