Monday field trips

I'm starting to figure this new part-time preschool/part-time work/full-time stay-at-home mom thing out.  It's busy, but being home with 2 kids is WAY easier than being home with 3 all summer.  Especially since one of those 2 kids still naps every day.  The only down side is, she naps every day.  Which means Ethan and I are here.  At home.  Every.single.afternoon.  I think he's already starting to get bored.  I need to come up with more things for him to do.  Problem is that with 3 kids at home all summer, I got NOTHING done around the house, so now I have a list forever long, and I'm trying to tackle a lot of it each afternoon.  He gets bored  after a while.

But Ethan only goes to school 4 mornings a week.  So that leaves us with 1 day a week we can actually go somewhere.  So Mondays are our field trips days.  Note that Brynn goes to school Tuesday and Thursday mornings, so she's also with us for our Monday excursions.

For whatever reason though, lots of places are closed on Mondays.  Marbles, Museum of Life and Science, etc.  But I want to take advantage of the nice weather while we have it so we can save those indoor excursions for later.

So last Monday we went to the Black Creek Greenway here in Cary.  I rode my bike with Brynn in the bike seat and Ethan rode his bike.  Fortunately the trail is pretty flat, though not quite flat enough in some parts for his little bike with training wheels.  We still had a good time and then hit up the park across from where we parked (Godbold Park).

Yesterday we decided to try new things and new places.  First up - Waffle House.  None of my kids have ever been to Waffle House.  Although I'm a fan, Braden isn't, so we don't ever go.  Ethan wolfed down his waffle, so I'd say he liked it.  Since it wasn't raining and the kids had energy to burn, we tried out a new park.  Method Road Park.  It's a little bit in the ghetto, but the playground is nice and new so it was pretty fun.  Not enough to keep their attention for all that long though.

So next was Walnut Street Park.  Another park less than 10 minutes from our house that we hadn't tried.  This one was way cool.  All kinds of neat climbing structures and spinning things that they loved.  And we went on a short nature hike to look for bugs.

A quick stop to Target for 2 needed things and that concluded our Monday field trip for yesterday.