Playdate with New Friends and Old Friends

Lana and I invited her friend Elisabeth, her mom and her baby brother to the park with us last Thursday after school. We're trying to get to know more of the kids in Lana's class and I'd met Elisabeth's mom at a Mother's of Young Children meeting at church. She mentioned they were new here and still getting to know everyone. Funnily enough, her husband is also an engineer/physicist with Brent's old company so the boys would probably get along great too. Anyway, despite the totally spur-of-the-moment plans, Lana and Elisabeth had a great time at the park. They ran each other ragged just playing and running around. It was funny to watch them since Elisabeth is in something like the 95% for her age and Lana is in somewhere around the 5%. They didn't seem to notice, though.

Calli also tried to play with Elisabeth's little brother, Greggy (aka Coco) who just turned one last week. Here are a few pics of the girls at the park:





Blake, Carter, and Elane met us at the park after Blake got done with school. After Elisabeth left, Lana and Blake spent ages sitting and watching the ducks. They would inch closer to a major drop off and we kept having to make them move back before giving up and deciding to just go home. (Plus the big kids got there from an after school program. They were being great, but that many big kids and Lana tends to get lost.)


We're hoping to plan more after-school playdates...but we might have to work up to them. The girls and I were exhausted after all this. We left the house at 8:15am and didn't get home until 5:15pm. That's a long day for us!!