Water Balloons!!!
GRETCHEN AND HAILEY
TIM EMILY AND ELLEN (Hailey's mom and Mary's sister)
BACK OF MARY'S HEAD!!
Walking a stuffed dog on a stick all over through the dirt and grass and field!!!
I AM IN THE JUNGLE MOMMY!
Playing in the fountain---
Walking and Talking and Exploring----------------Drinking tooo!
ustomed to getting up and going SOMEW
HERE?? They had Main street closed and had booths a stage and activites--they even had lawn mower races! T
he kids had a teddybear parade at 9:30 am----little did we know we were the parade as we ma
rched down the street! G was cute and waved to the people as she carried her teddybear in one arm!! 
We played games and won a pair of teddybear sunglasses and some other things I never took after she played the game (bad mom I know) She did get this red heart stress ball--she eventually took two bites out of and that was taken!! You can have way to much stuff!! She sat in the firetruck and was very impressed with the BIG WHEELS--ha! We listened and watched little kids dancing and cheering and cl
oggers and Polynesian dancers---She was so tired and fell asleep minutes after 
we got in the car at 12:40 pm! I was going to a suprise 40th birthday at 2 pm---for my friend Mary.
y name tags!!
parade) was in the corner of the foyer---she was scared to death to even go in the front doors of the church! So when we pulled up to church on Monday the front was decorated wth colored posters of monkeys---(she sometimes freaks out with monkeys and hides and says she is scared--MY PERSONAL OPINION--play it off and she is fine---Last summer a monkey jumped at the 
plexiglass at the zoo and she cried!!--so I think its a hidden fear----then what did we do buy her pink monkey sheets not even knowing---it took forever to put them on -she now loves them) So with the monkey posters outside on the church and then the Chineese dragon inside---it was a rough start (BUT no TEARS) (Just very CLINGY)Talked about VBS all day--so I took her back Tuesday--Monday afternoon we took the paper binoculars she got at the zoo and looked for ANTS 
outside and then made a ant hill with brown construction paper and ink pad and then raisins----HOW FUN!!!
posters and dragon----ahh! Looks at me and says THE DRAGON IS NOT SCAREY---IT'S OK MOMMY!
was so hot that she crawled under my legs --I was sitting on the steps and she curled up under my legs and said lets go----funny girl!
m and would not go up-----she had fun !!! In fact when it was time to go and they deflated it she said I am still playing!! We were invited back ----
**Thursday--we went grocery shopping since I had nothing left--we were there quite awhile and talked to four different people we knew!! She fell asleep in the car and then my friend Shanna and Seth (5) and Jenna (19 months)came at two from Walla Walla!! They stayed for dinner and left at 7:30 pm! What a fun day catching up--Mary stopped by for a couple hours also. Shanna taught with me at McNary the four years I was there--and stayed with us one weekend a month when she got her Master's degree! Gretchie had a fun fun time playing with her new friends----she played in the dirt outside and went to bed. 
**FRIDAY--VBS!! She made a Chineese scroll and had raisins and a fortunate cookie. She read and read her fortunate--stuck the paper in her pocket! We had hotdogs at noon and then they had carnival games for the kids--she loved her tied purple balloon animal. We left church at 1:30 pm and she kept herself awake the whole way home by singing---we then watched DORA and rocked and she still stayed awake-after an hour I decided to go claim my $100 first place we had won back in April off our electric bill and get our rodeo box seat tickets and buffet dinner tickets!!! G was so tired and would not get in the carseat in the driveway----laid down on the floor and said I don't want to go----after punishment I buckled her in----I did not want to get her out at the UEC office but had too--She had her blankie, elephant, tied balloon, and new rubber tiger from VBS! The clerk thought she was so cute--I still was exausted from trying to give her a nap and putting her in the car. The lady hande
d G a Ty beanie animal--and it happened to be an elephant (THAT IS NUMBER 10 stuffed elephant) The girl needs NO MORE ELEPHANTS!!! Gretchen's reaction was adorable OH THANK-YOU SO MUCH --ELEPHANTS ARE MY FAVORITE!! I AM HAVING AN ELEPHANT BIRTHDAY!!! (I had to hug her on that--no prompting on my part just plain cute!!!) It made my day --plus the clerk was talking to the other lady when we left!! SUNSHINE EVEN IN THE MIDST OF NO NAP!!! She fell asleep at 4 when we went to get Papa Murphey's Pizza-I woke her 15 min later when we got home.Played with older neighbor kids and bed!
WHILE we were in Spokane I priced the elefun game for her birthday(October)....It was $24--way to high for a kids game in my pocketbook! So I settled for another very cute elephant game with peanuts that was $13! When we got home that Friday 6/27 our neighbor across the street was
ad the ELEFUN game--she charged me $2--which I should have offered lower but boy did "G" have a blast with it---well worth the $2.00!
-ha!!
