Weeks 15 & 16: Ikea, friends, and Parent's Night Out

So all this stuff happened! Here's what we've been up to...

A trip to Ikea. These seem to be more and more frequent, though for the first time in a while I cannot identify any more furniture that we need. This time we got the boys nightstands and new dressers. It had been the goal for some time to get dressers that make good use of the boys' closet space, and I think we've finally achieved that.

We went on a 3+ mile hike with the cub scout den. I only had to carry Charlotte for a little bit near the end. It helped me move up in my ranking among Fitbit friends that week.

On Friday we were off to Jen and Andy's house for the weekend. Ben and Maggie's birthday party was Saturday evening. We spent the rest of the time visiting, taking the girls out for Maggie to get her ears pierced, and the kids loved playing together on Minecraft (their kids have recently gotten into it).

Charlotte must have asked if it was time for cake about thirty times that day.

We got a handful of decent photos.

And about a hundred crazy ones.

That weekend was very rainy. It poured during our drive home on Sunday. On Monday we should not have been surprised to have school cancelled for flooding. The elementary school building was not actually flooded, but it was kind of surrounded by water, which covered the entire football field, roads, and much of the park behind the school. Other areas in the county were flooded as well. Sigh. They did not add on an extra day to the school year, thank goodness. Charlotte still went to day care, and the boys had friends over.

Zach saw the allergist. He's doing well with his monthly shots.

A second Friday of busyness. Two dates! Frank tried out my morning Body Pump class with me. He got through it, and I'd say he had the expected and appropriate level of soreness for the entire weekend. Yay for fitness :) We had no plans for the evening, but the kids came home wanting to go to a Parent's Night Out event at their school because friends were going. We agreed and then went out for dinner.

On Saturday morning Charlotte went with me to Zumba (they have a kids room with iPads), and Frank took the boys to Astronomy Day. There were a bunch of activities for the kids, including building a catapult (Gabe won for farthest-flung marshmallow, I believe), and launching rockets powered by Alka-seltzer tablets.