quality mama time

This week Loudoun is going to science camp everyday. Making Robots!!! The camp is close to Rick's work, so he is in charge of picking him up every afternoon. While it makes me sad to miss picking him up, hearing about his day and spending the afternoon with him, it does create a handful of afternoons to have alone "girl time" with Avalon. As the second born child, I feel she deserves some quality mama time.

Normally, I'm not the hugest "park" fan, what with the stress of leaving when it's over and done with. If you've spent any time reading my blog, you will know that Avalon doesn't have the best track record with leaving the park.

But Avalon brought me 2 roses from our garden when we got home today and asked if we could take them on a picnic, so I had a change of heart about the park and we set off to have a girls' evening together.

My only mission was to push her on the swing, over and over, tickle her as she came down the slide, and carry her across the monkey bars. 

Except when we stopped to eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

I told her to wait and sit on the step while I took a picture, 

but before I knew it she was already up on the top!

Here's to 4 more girls' days this week with my petunia.