Saturday Party & Swim

On Saturday the girls woke up too early, but since Bryan let me sleep in on Friday morning I let him sleep in on Saturday. I attempted to get some cleaning done while keeping emma busy with raisins and books and Clara with water colors.

She painted a "birdie" here:

We had Cora's birthday party to go to at 10am so I was rather relieved to get out of the house. After the usual clothes battle (I've GOT to come up with a solution), we were on our way, and Clara was fully accessorized. 

We were one of the first ones there so the balloon man made Clara a pretty princess and Emma a green dinosaur to match her shirt/skirt. 

Overtired Emma spent the entire time eating popcorn, drinking water, and turning a stronger shade of red because of the heat. Bryan ended up taking her inside to play while the party was going on outside, poor thing. 

Clara had fun playing the circus games with the other party guests

And eating popcorn too

And bouncing in the big bouncy castle 

Clara was mesmerized by the balloon guy

 He even made her another one!! "purple draf please" :)

curls and balloons

weeeeeee

Posing with the dinosaur

 AND he made her an Ariel! Clara was in Heaven.

We really needed to take Emma home so she could take a nap, but Clara asked for a cupcake, so she actually got one before we sang Happy Birthday to Cora :-/ oh well! 

Once we went home, I told Clara she could paint one more picture before it was time for her to take a nap like Emma. AND if she took a nap, we would go to the pool that we tried the day before. 

Bribery success! Both girls took siestas, thankfully, and we headed out the door to the Creekside Pool, one of the ones in the Township.

They were SO excited when we got there. Suits on, sunscreen applied, and we were ready!

Although we had to do some convincing to get Emma to leave her blanket on dry land.

We got about 15-20 minutes of fun in before ..... thunder. NOOOOOO. No more rain!

We were told we had to get out for a thunder break, 15 minutes. Around the 13-14min mark came another roll of thunder. This was REALLY hard on Clara :( 

We told her it was time to go because it didn't seem like we were going to swim anymore, and I told her the plan was to go to Lulu & Papa's house that afternoon anyway, we were just going to go a little bit sooner than planned. Marginally consoled, off we went. 

Morose Toddler

 She cheered up considerably at Lulu & Papas, even though it rained on us.

Thank you so much for loving on our girls all the time! 

:)