Peeryng Into Our Summer

Jake and I have LOVED having the Peerys here this summer.  We are soooooo sad that they're leaving in a few weeks... but until then we'll have to keep doing fun stuff.  Here's a snapshot at some of the activities we've been up to...

Babysitting

Since Jake was working nights the past few weeks I offered to babysit the Peery's girls so they could have a date night.  I used to detest babysitting, but I've found that it's become much easier now that I have my own child.  I still have a hard time watching older kids or even little boys... but maybe in the future that won't be such a big deal.  

Sadie and Hannah as super sweet.  They love to give Scarlett hugs and kisses.  They're all becoming best friends!  For whatever reason, these little chairs are the hot item when they come over to play.  Whenever one girl gets up, another will swoop in and steal that chair.  It was basically 3 hours of musical chairs (mixed with lots of snacks and Bubble Guppies).

The girls were getting restless and wanted to walk outside, but I didn't think I could handle 2 toddlers on my own.  So I engineered a solution: I tied Hannah and Scarlett together by the belt loops with some ribbon!  Don't judge.

 

Jake had this entire past week off of work.  So one afternoon we left Scarlett with her BFFs and went to see the new Spiderman movie.  I don't think she missed us at all!

Detroit

One evening we headed down to Detroit's Riverfront to check out the city.

The city on the other side of the Detroit river is Windsor CANADA!  Yes, we're just a stone's throw from the Canadian border, aye! 

The traffic downtown is awful!  It's seriously every man for themselves.  When we were getting on the freeway, a lady in front of us decided that she didn't want to go that way... so she slowed down, stopped, put her car in reverse, and backed out of the freeway on-ramp!  Forcing all of us behind her to stop or back up to get out of her way.  Some of the people in front of us must have panicked, thinking she saw traffic ahead, because they flipped a u-ey and followed her out!  And the freeway was just fine.  Crazy Detroiters.

The Boys

Jake and Eric have had lots of fun.  Eric got a sweet RC car at a yard sale that they've taken all over the neighborhood.  They even met a Muslim lady and had a missionary moment! 

Splash Park

Near our home there are 3 free splash parks.  We've only been to the Heritage Park Splash Playground so far, but it was really sweet.  I wasn't sure what Scarlett would think of it... but after a few minutes she was running around like the big kids.

   

Drive In

One evening we were all able to see Brave at the Ford Drive In movie.

Greenfield Village

Krista took me to Ford's Greenfield Village.  There's tons to do, but since it was so hot we just hit a few key things: the carousel and the train ride.

One the way home all 3 girls fell asleep and stayed asleep for 2 hours!  Mommy Heaven!