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Picnics and Playdates

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This weekend we spent Saturday as family time. It was nice to have a day to ourselves. We are often so busy trying to spend time with our families and friends as well as each other that we rarely have time that seems to be just for us. We love to spend time with our family and friends, but it is a nice change up once in a while to have nothing planned for a day.

Saturday we decided to take Kenzie for her first picnic. We went down to Magnolia Park on Lake Apopka. Our hope had been to eat by the water, but they are working on the boat dock apparently, and that part of the park is shut down so we had to eat on the other side of the park. Kenzie sat in her stroller and ate her applesauce while Steven and I had Subway. It was nice to just get out of the house for a while and be together. We were going to let Kenzie play on the baby swings, but the park was really crowded. Our hope is that we can go early to another park this Saturday so that she can swing for her first time.








Sunday, Kenzie and I, along with one of my college roommates, Colleen, took a short road trip to visit one of our other college roommates, Kelly, and her husband, Ben, and son, Cameron. The drive was only a little over an hour but going anywhere with a baby can be quite a to do. She did well on the car ride there and back. Kenzie really seemed to enjoy her first play date. She doesn't really get time with babies around her age (Cameron is 20 days older than her) so it was fun for her to see someone her size. Watching them together was interesting. Seeing how they interacted, though the interaction was fairly minimal at this age. We enjoyed visiting with Kelly and Ben. We don't see them nearly enough.









This coming week is Valentine's Day. We don't really have anything planned for the day of Valentine's but Steven and I are going to a Solar Bears hockey game on Saturday and to dinner for a late date night. We haven't had a true date night in... goodness... how old is Kenzie now? It's been over 6 months. I'm really looking forward to it.

Also, I'm realizing how it can be so funny how your priorities change when having children. I'm super excited for this weekend also because we are going to clean our carpets on Sunday. I never thought I would be so happy to be getting that done. With Kenzie slowly becoming more and more mobile (and the fact that I think we are going to have quite a mover on our hands fairly soon), I am looking forward to getting that taken care of. She spends most of her awake time on the floor. Especially since we are packing up her swing this weekend so Momma can take it back to Palatka with her to store it. My, how my priorities have changed.
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