Blog by Iphone Fire

It's that time again! Blog by Iphone Fire!

On June 25th (yes, you read that right), we went to Kilby Creamery, which is nearby. They had an awesome playground:

We had their ice cream, but decided we still love Woodside the most as far as creameries go around here! Kilby creamery DOES deliver fresh milk though! That's exciting.

July 19th, we dog-sat Toby, our neighbor's dog. We were pretty smitten:
Definitely seeing a dog in our future.

On August 30, we went to "Rolly Slide Park." Here's the reason for it's name sake:
I love this slide. It's like a box conveyor belt slide thingy. I went down it once and it HURTS. I don't know why kids love it so, but they do!

September 3rd - Brian's out of town for our yearly tradition of going to Milburn Farms on Labor Day weekend for the opening of apple picking. Michael and I went anyways and had a great time:
September 16th - Michael and I run around Longwood. I loved these purple flowers leading to the gorgeous gazebo.

To illustrate one of my principles on how to get good kid portraits, I let Michael have a picture of his "binocular eyes" and let him see his picture:
After which, he is happy to do this for me:
There's these huge gorgeously trimmed shrubbery in the gardens, but you can actually climb inside them:
Michael loves that.

September 20th - Brian still out of town. Brian still of town = trip to Target for a "healthy" lunch:
I was going to get the salad. But when the cashier told me I had to go over to the refrigerated cabinets to get it, I opted for the fake cheesy nachos that she had to get for me behind the counter.

September 29th, our friend Tami/Ashton/Ryan got us into the Please Touch Museum for the day. LOVE that place:




Back at Longwood with my parents on Oct 18th. He wanted a picture with this sundial with this ghetto fabulous pose. He came up with THAT on his own:
VOILA! Blog by iphone fire done. Next installment in 3-6 months!

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Bon W-E. And NIght Vision.

Bon W-E is how the french say good weekend. Voila. French 101 for the day.

Anywho - we started Saturday AM by being late to soccer by about 10 minutes. EEK. Brian's coach. Our friends on the team told us that the other parents were speculating on why we were late.

Yes, everyone. The Besancons do run late from time to time.

Afterwards, we ran a quick errand all the way in Kennett for my ordering session on Sunday in the AM. Then, off for an afternoon playdate with some new friends of ours who are on the soccer team.

We had a fantastic time! Michael and their son played extremely well all together and we didn't hear about any fights until nearly 4 hours later. SWEEEEEET.

The wife is an engineer at Gore and the husband is a Biology AP/Chemistry teacher. It's so nice to meet other lady engineers. There's just an underlying thought process and personality current there which makes it so easy to relate. It also helped immensely that she was way into the Twilight Series, Hunger Games, and liked to shop.

Check, check, check. Her husband was sarcastic, funny, and liked to build fires - so that's a pretty good fit for us.

We stayed probably too long, but it was a good time. Hurried home, changed for our date, and dropped Michael off for "Kids Night Out" at his school. His school plans a night of crafts/activities/songs, etc! For $5, we get 2.5 hours of babysitting while we had a date night!

We ran off to a bar in Kennett to catch the A&M game, which of course wasn't on the TV. But we enjoyed some great beer, had some rillettes and crab nachos, and had a really nice date.

Then it was off to Lowes. Yes, a nice little Saturday we had planned there!

We picked Michael up from school and he was pretty pleased to get a sneak peek at the job board this week for school. He figured out he's in charge of the calendar this week and went on and on about how he was excited about it and that you get this bird pointer thingy. Hilarious.

Long Saturday.

Sunday, I had my ordering session in the AM, which ran much longer than expected resulting in me missing church. :(

I came home and had lunch with my awesome guys. Then ran off to Fair Hill Nature center for a "hike," Michael was all against a HIKE per say, but a walk would be fine.

Well, that walk/hike he was complaining about eventually gave way to excitement when he found a river that he could throw rocks into:

He hung out with Dad on the edge of rocks/banks while Mommy kept yelling, "Be careful! Slow down!" And taking pictures between warnings.
He had a great time! Then, we went back home. Brian chopped wood while Michael and I played Wii. Tough life, I know.

Then, we decided to cash in the Fair Hill Inn Sunday Supper for 2 meal that we won at the Silent Auction during Oktoberfest. And we took Michael with us. To a fine dining establishment.

We talked to him ahead of time about being well behaved and what that means in a nice restaurant. He was so good during the meal and it helped that we packed a "restaurant bag" to keep him entertained. He was quiet, well mannered, and drank water from a little wine/water glass. It was so cute, and we were so proud.

We asked him if he liked the food better than Applebees and he said, "I'll decide after dessert."

Too funny.

Michael is CONVINCED he has night vision. When he can see things in the dark by moonlight or street lamp or car headlights, he thinks that is his night vision. The other night, he was looking through his Mario Galaxy book and he said, "Mommy, my night vision is working just fine because I can see my Mario in this book."

So glad we stopped our conversation to hear THAT!

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