Lunch, Lowes and the Park

While having lunch with Violet, she took a straw and bent it into a shape then asked me what it was. Well, it had 4 sides and she's only 4 years old (almost 5) so I said a square. She said, "no, it's a rhombus"! She's only 4. Where in the world did she learn that word. I don't think I knew that word until geometry class in the 8th grade. Melissa said she just learned it yesterday!!!!! That's what they teach in preschool. I guess I'll have to start rethinking my answers to her questions.

After lunch I convinced Violet to help me pick out a faucet at Lowes. They didn't have one I liked. So after Lincoln set off the alarm for trying to steal a faucet, we high-tailed it out of Lowes and headed to the park.

The weather was perfect. It was nice and warm and made me actually think Spring may just be around the corner. I hope I can keep this attitude if winter decides to once again rear it's ugly head.

The park was rather small but the jungle gym had several slides and steps and poles to climb. Lincoln gets a little too fast and brave and if you're not right there, could miss a step.

After the park we went for ice cream. Another good reason to spend the day with the kids - going out to the lunch, the park and ice cream!

Violet is so funny. She said she could eat this ice cream every day of her life but "they" wouldn't let her. I asked her who "they" were. She said her Mom and Dad. I told her if she lived with me we could get ice cream every day. Then she came up with this "girl secret". We could pretend to go shopping and wipe all the ice cream off our faces before I took her home.  Ah, the imagination of a child.

When I went to bed last night I was wondering why my back and shoulders hurt. Then I remembered trying to show Violet how to do cartwheels. In my head I'm way younger than my body wants me to be!