Our Adventures

Well, Bridgette is now almost six years old, it’s amazing how they grow so fast. It’s either that, or I’m hoping that they stay so cute forever. Today we were at Megan’s softball game. It’s her first year of playing softball and her team is doing so well. Megan is doing well to, she made it home twice today!!! Naomi was at the ABC Pre-School board meeting while Bridgette and I watched Megan play softball. Here was our conversation about Pooh Bear’s heart:
Daddy: Does Pooh Bear have a heart
Bridgette: Yes, he does
Daddy: How do you know?
Bridgette: Because he loves me
Daddy: How do you know he loves you?
Bridgette: I just do
Daddy: What does he do to show his love for you?
Bridgette: Nothing, I just know he loves me…
Bridgette: wait…
Bridgette: I know he loves me because when I’m scared and I hold him I’m not scared anymore
Bridgette: …and he lets me bite his ears
Daddy: Oh, he must love you very much then if he lets you bite his ears.
It was just cute, it’s pretty fun to see how they think. Bridgette really processes some interesting throughts sometimes, it’s cute just to probe and see where her mind is going every now and then. The other day we were explaining about the 24 elders and the thrown of God. How they have gold bowls that are filled with incense which are the prayers of God’s people. When the bowls are full, the angels pour the answer over the earth. Bridgette very excitedly proclaims, Oh, I know how they do that. There are ten thousand and one hundred colors and each prayer is a different color and then when that color is full the answer comes. Wow, I was pretty amazed. I don’t know if it works that way, but that’s a great concept, and she really understood it.

Whew, it’s been a long time since I wrote on our blog… It’s been a long year, that’s for sure (mostly due to work). But here I am. Yesterday, we took a bike ride to Caribou Coffee (the girls like to go there, since we usually take some games with and play Crazy Eights, Old Maid or something like that).
A few weeks ago, we went for a 3.5 mile bike ride around the block (my usual jogging route), there was still a fair amount of snow on the ground, but it was melting fast and there was water everywhere. They had so much fun blasting through the water and splashing around - except when they hit a puddle that was 5 inches deep. Megan had to bike home barefoot. I was impressed that they had made that, without a problem. This is the first year that Bridgette has been able to keep up, in fact, some of the time she’s biking faster than Megan even.
Toward the end of last Summer, we would make it all the way to Dairy Queen (adjacent to Caribou), and a little way back, but it entailed much whining on the huge and very long uphill as we head back. This year, I gave Bridgette assistance on the steep hills, but they made it! We’re really looking forward to the Summer, it was 65 degrees yesterday, and climbing!

This week we went with friends from church to a Holiday Inn in St Cloud. At first I was wondering why we would drive an hour-and-a-half to a Holiday Inn which isn’t even located near anything in particular… well, when we walked into the building it became very apparent. This Holiday Inn is huge. They allow pets, have 5 swimming pools/hot tubs, a large enough gym for two concurrent games of volleyball and sitting areas right outside the rooms. Well, this actually worked out really well. The kids basically have free roam of the hotel. As parents we get to sit around tables and play games much of the day. I went for an early morning run with Wayne who’s training for Grandma’s marathon. I wasn’t sure if I’d make the 7 miles, but we ended up doing 8 and my lungs were feeling pretty good, but my ITB was starting to feel it a little, and then of course the muscles in general felt it.
Megan and Bridgette had a grand time, friends that live a couple houses from us were also there with their children Noah and Jenna (which worked out well, since they’re nearly the same age). Megan and Bridgette were very excited to go to the hotel, in fact, they were packed before any of us. When we arrived they first took some time to pack all their clothes into the drawers. Megan even rigged up something so when she picked up her gown, her slippers came with… I wonder where she gets that from??? There were a few sibling clashes that we had to deal with too… sigh… But we’re working on it.

Well, none of the pictures are of me, but these are some pictures I took at Afton Alps.