q didn't want to look when i asked him to smile and let me take a picture of him on his only-kid date. daddy took matters into his own hands. literally :-)
today, we met up with our chicago friends to go check out the central library and victoria park. we go to victoria park a lot...it's one of our favorite sunday activities. we take bus 23, and presto-whamo, we're at the park.
today, we hopped on a tram because there's a tram stop very near our friends' apartment. when we got off the tram, i whipped out my trusty navigator, and the other family whipped out their map, and we set off. we asked several times for directions/help, but somehow, we still ended up going in the opposite direction of the library, which is right across the highway from victoria park (and there's a foot bridge, so it's easily accessible).
we still had a great time. during our fruitless wanderings, we found two play areas and one amazing toy store. one play area was like my gym or little gym, and thus closed to us b/c there was no free play. also, it was designed for wee ones the boys' age...it would have bored the girls to tears after a few minutes. we checked out another play area that was in the back of a toy store. after determining it would cost between 30 and 60 USD to play there for 45 minutes, we moved on to toys.
the kids had a ball checking out the store and picking out a special toy. next stop was a pizzeria. we had to wait a bit for a table, but the wait was well worth it because the pizza was delicious! we headed out once again to find the park/library. we got THIS close, but by the time we did, the baby boys were falling down tired. we called it. we will try again soon.
after our outing, olivia went back to our friends' house for a playdate and sleepover. q CRIED his big blue eyeballs out when he realized sissy wasn't in the taxi with us. i took him to our pool after his nap, and he refused to play. he just kept asking for sissy. tomorrow morning, we will all meet up at a really cool pool that is designed for young kids...zero entry, slides, and sprinklers. i am sure that q will be THRILLED to see sissy. by the way, i did finally download a compass app on my phone...hopefully, this will end my streak of fruitless adventures :-)
tonight, josh and i took q on an only-kid date... we took him out for a hot dog dinner and then for ice cream. he did seem to forget to miss sissy while he was munching down the hot dog, dripping ice cream everywhere, and having mommy and daddy at his beck and call and ready to swing him every three steps on the walk home :-)
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