27June2008: Day33: We Need a Dog

Makenna and I walked to a camping store today to buy a “rucksack” or backpack. We figured that every time we go on a weekend excursion that all the bags that we’re carrying – three – plus the stroller is just too much. So we hope to consolidate down to two, maybe one. We hope to try it out tomorrow.

Other than that, we just went to the park as usual and Makenna decided to not wait for mommy before she went down the slide – and paid the price by going down in a somersault fashion. She was okay physically but was not too happy with what happened to say the least. But after calming her down, I was able to get her to try again. She tried playing with a few little boys that were there but they wouldn’t have anything to do with her. So she just moved on to play without them. There was also this guy that had a few kids around him as he had this contraption that would throw a ball pretty far for his dog to fetch. So I took Makenna over to watch and she just loved this dog. She laughed and laughed watching him run, and tried running after him a couple of times. But then she realized he was coming back each time so she just waited. Then the dog would hide his ball and himself under her stroller to get a rest. It just reinforced the fact that at some point, we need to get a dog.

Then she took a very long nap (almost 3 hours). I let her sleep this long as she has a bit of a runny nose. Then we waited for daddy to come home and after dinner went grocery shopping – again. It’s like a twice a week occurrence. I finally found something that resembles pudding mix but decided against buying at this time as Chris really wants me to make apple pies for the Fourth of July. He’s inviting some friends over from work and wants to show them apple pie. Although, we then saw one on the shelf already made, so that’s a back up plan.

One last thing about Makenna, that other mothers will appreciate, is that she’s at that stage where she keeps repeating one word questions. But instead of “why” at this point, it’s “hot?” or “on?” So if we have a book or a piece of clothing, at the moment it’s “hot?” I then have to reinforce that books aren’t hot. I swear I don’t watch much of Paris Hilton.