Park Days & Free Lunch!

Last Wednesday (a week ago), I took Heidi & Hannah to the splash park and a free kids concert at Les Gove Park in Auburn. Heidi had fun. We went with her friend Alicia (who is only 8 days older than Heidi and was actually born on Heidi's due date). Heidi actually calls her "Walicia." Alicia's baby sister was born only 3 days after Hannah, too. We all met at the parks and had a fun day last week. We were going to go again yesterday (Wed), but Heidi was so grouchy and kept yelling at me about how she did not want to get dressed and she did not want to go play with anyone today. She was just So Extremely grouchy! ... so I had to call Alicia's mom and tell her that we could not make it. I tried getting her dressed and tried getting her to go because I thought she might need to get out and might feel better once we got out, but she was just so grouchy that we ended up staying home.

She has started nap time again, too (because of her grouchiness). Yesterday afternoon when I put her down, I told her that she didn't have to go to sleep, but she had to stay in her bed for at least half an hour. After she had been in there for about 20 minutes or so, I went to her door to listen (to hear what she was doing). She must have just been really bored. She was just saying the names of all of her cousins "Audrey, Austin, Genevieve, Megan..." and then she moved on to just random words, like "flowers, trees..." At least she had some quiet time. I think we need to go back to doing nap/rest time every day again.

Monday of this week, we also went to a playgroup meeting at Cedar Lanes park in Auburn with a bunch of the kids/parents from church. While we were there, I kept seeing kids lining up on the side of the park. I couldn't figure out what they were lining up for. It just just a line to nothing. I asked one of the moms that was there with our group if she knew what they were doing and she said that Auburn City Schools provides free lunches for kids ages 1 - 18 at about 20 of the parks around Auburn every day. I couldn't believe it! It is supposed to be for the kids who normally get free lunches, who might not get to eat a lunch if one was not given to them through this program. One of the moms there said that we should use it even if we don't need it because it it isn't used, they may take it away... so Heidi got a free lunch that day. They even had 3 main course choices! Heidi had a corn dog (which is one of her favorite foods), grapes, peaches in a cup, and chocolate milk.