We Recommend!

Okay, so this post constitutes another catch-up...but a really good one!

Last Saturday (not yesterday) was a really fantastic family day. Since May, we have had TWO Saturdays (yes, count them...only two) that were both at home and did not require leaving the house early for soccer. Last Saturday was one of those two days and we were PSYCHED! So here are our recommendations based on that most wonderful of days and the week that followed:

1. Have a lazy Saturday!

We forgot how great they are and have now scratched plans to do T-Ball in the fall...we want a few more of those Saturdays before fall craziness kicks in! Sorry no picture. We were chillaxing.

2. Cars 2!

Caleb has been asking to see this, so we complied and took him to see an early afternoon showing of the much anticipated flick! I had a purse full of snacks in Cars-themed brown paper bags and off we went. We think he liked it, but the cars catching on fire seemed to have disturbed him a little, since he talks about it a lot (was it because they didn't show the firetrucks putting the fires out?). But even given that, we highly recommend Cars 2! It was a wonderful family activity on a way too hot Saturday afternoon!

3. Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!

This is a book we borrowed from the library a few weeks ago, at which point all other books ceased to exist. Caleb LOVES this book. To avoid the inevitable drama when the book came due, we took him to Barnes and Noble after the movie to get him his own copy. This is a great book. If you don't have it, you should really ask yourself why you are missing such a critical piece of literature from your personal library and immediately run out to get one! Seriously!

4. Octopus Hot Dogs!

Even if your octopus comes out with four legs instead of eight, it is still a big hit with the dude! We even gave it black eyes with some icing, but you can't see it in the picture and Mommy may or may not have slyly wiped them off before he actually ate his food...he didn't notice! The spaghetti seaweed was a hit too!

5. Baking and crafting with Grammy.

She was all ready for our visit last Tuesday with cookies to cut out and bake and even bags to decorate (to take the cookies home). Of course the decorating involved stamps which is a sure sell for our dude. So we highly recommend baking and crafting with Grammy (or whomever else is around) and stamps are a must!

6. Swimming with Pop.

Caleb's day also included a dip in the pool with Pop which is always good for fun and plain 'ole cooling off! We highly recommend Pops and pools! In fact, we just highly recommend Caleb's Grammy and Pop. They are super fab and always willing to "adopt" Caleb's friends!

7. In N Out!

We finally decided to brave the frenzy that surrounds Frisco's newest institution...In N Out burger. TOTALLY WORTH IT! We are now fans and we don't even like fast food! Caleb likes the hats too....

9. Safe Headphones!

And finally, we recommend child-safe headphones that won't let the volume go past an unsafe level no matter how much your dude turns it up. We have held off of getting headphones since we were worried about hearing damage and these are the perfect solution. The dude is in heaven, thinks he is a big-boy rocker and he doesn't complain about how he can't hear his game or movie in the apparently too-loud car anymore! Win-Win! Wahoo! We got them at Mardel's by-the-by.

So there you have it. We hope that you like our humble recommendations!!!!

Take them or leave them but we love to share a good thing!

Love to you all!

p.s. I have one more post to catch up, so stay tuned for Brian's Nascar Adventure from this past Saturday! Coming soon!