If only his cold were a soccer ball, he could kick it!

Biscuit's nose is running again today (seems like he clears up for about a week then gets it all over again); he clearly needed another cheer-up activity. So we headed to the sports park for the first time ever this morning.

Among the fun things we found to do there were:

1. chase a soccer ball and kick it into the net (of course)
2. try to crawl through the little holes in the net (no comment)
3. see how many abandoned soccer balls we can find (3, I think)
4. watch a big tractor haul out and set up the stands (good timing I guess)
5. play in the gravel at the parking lot (and by "play" Biscuit means, "See how fast I can shove a rock in my mouth before mommy can stop me.")
6. watch a gated field get watered by the sprinkler system
7. try to figure out a way to play in the sprinklers (to no avail)
8. watch a Dr. Pepper truck go by, hoping it might stop and share (it didn't)
9. realize we aren't at the public sports park after all (we're at a private soccer club--oops!)
10. Too tired to play outside anymore, we drive back and forth jumping speed bumps at the real park--yippee!!

He caught the bug :)

I’m not talking about yet another cold virus (Biscuit is still getting over his last one); I’m talking about the summer reading program at the St. Charles City-County Library District. We read 40 books together over the course of the last month or so to earn some fun prizes. For the first 20 books, he got a bobble-head pullback race car. For the final 20 he got another little colorful, bendy toy but also some bigger prizes like a kid’s meal from Red Robin, two River City Rascals baseball tickets and a certificate of achievement. We had a great time with it and look forward to next year - but of course we’ll be back on Tuesday for more books prizes or not

Here are the books we picked to read for the program (I linked to some of his favorites):

A Tale of Tails; Caterpillar Spring, Butterfly Summer; Curious George at the Zoo; That’s Not My Tractor; My First Book of Animals; All About Baby; Peek-a-Boo Bedtime; Mr. Brown Can Moo, Can You? Biscuit; Quack, Quack, Who’s That?; God Bless Me; Yawn Like a Hippo!; Winnie the Pooh (Feelings); Thank You (Give Thanks series); Snuggle Up; Sesame Street Baby Party; Sweet Dreams; Numbers with Farm Animals; I Love My Daddy; Sing Praise; The Happy Man and His Dump Truck; Blessing (Give Thanks series); Love You Forever; Praying (Give Thanks series); The Jolly Barnyard; Hush, Little Baby; Guess How Much I Love You; My Little Golden Book About God; Curious George the Movie (the book!); That’s Not My Monster; Daddy Loves Me; Gallop!; That’s Not My Bunny; ABC; Cuddly Baby; No, No, Yes, Yes; Hide-and-Seek Baby; I Can, Can You?; That’s Not My Train; Goodnight Faces

A week to remember :)

Well, it’s been something of a tough week with Big Biscuit in Mexico and Little Biscuit missing him on top of a nasty cold, so I wanted to write down some of the happier highlights to cheer us all up!

Okay, so here they are: the top 10 most memorable events of the past seven days around our
house:

10. In mid-preparation of applesauce meatloaf we realize we are out of eggs, necessitating a near- world-record-setting speed run to the store.

9. I decide to try out an unadjusted reel mower on our front yard during Biscuit’s naptime which
happens to be around noon (and yes, this is a Missouri summer).

8. Biscuit discovers the meaning of “slippery” while chasing the bar of soap around the bathtub.

7. Biscuit further discovers “slippery” as he goes headfirst down a slide for the first time.

6. Biscuit continues his new hobby of finding his belly button on command.

5. His next favorite hobby becomes looking for yours.

4. Biscuit gets the hiccups during lunch. Every time one hits (which is usually during a big, sloppy
bite of peas), he almost chokes laughing.

3. The homemade spicy sweet potato fries my sis tries to cook turn out to be, um, let’s say, very smoke-flavored sweet potato briquettes.

2. Biscuit jumps off his seat as an unexpected loud burp from his aunt scares him half to death; I’m not sure what was funnier - his initial shocked reaction or the 10 minutes of hysterical laughter (from both of them!) that followed.

1. Biscuit uses his newfound skill of pointing to acknowledge the cars beside us as we wait at a red light; unfortunately he only knows how to point with his middle finger.