So much to do...so little time

Last week we spent a sunny morning playing around the house and doing a few house jobs like laundry and mopping the kitchen floor before we finally got out to enjoy a really pretty day. It is good incentive to mop a floor by the way when your son dumps a full cup of water on the floor in an attempt to fill his kitchen's sink.

Back to the fun...I started out needing to give the car a good vacuuming and wipe down the interior so luckily I parked at the vacuum and Luke could see across the street to the trackhoe and bobcat working on a construction site. The trackhoe was pretty fun to watch because it was in constant action scooping dirt out of the ground and loading up the string of dumptrucks rotating through the site. We had actually just talked about trackhoes having 'teeth' on their buckets so Luke getting to see those 'teeth' in action so soon after learning about them was pretty exciting (for me at least! He was just thrilled watching the action) I could hear him yelling about the activity over the car vacuum if that helps explain his excitement.

After getting the car cleaned up (which lasts approximately 7 minutes) we grabbed some lunch (Lame-o mom moment - we went through MCD's drive thru) and then found a parking place behind the construction site and ate while we watched. Kind of a toddler drive-in, right? I had to remind him to take bites of lunch because he was so into the action :)

I know that this would be exciting enough on a normal day, but please try to picture a busy construction site in front of you and five firetrucks parked NEXT TO YOU in the same moment! Yeah...the firefighters were doing some drills in empty houses next to the work site, and we got to watch them a bit in between dumptruck loads!

When Luke picked up his "TRUCKS" book, I thought it was sign to move on so we headed to campus lake to visit some waterfowl with some leftover bread. We fed ducks and then a gaggle of geese came over looking for what they missed. Luke just held on to his bread and took a nibble now and then. He didn't quite understand sharing perfectly good bread when he could eat it!



We ran around for about 45 minutes and Luke still didn't want to leave. My meter was out of time, though, so we came home and explored the yard before heading out to dinner with Daddy. No nap due to all of the excitement and he was in his crib, curled up with his favorite blanket at 6:50. In case I haven't been clear, it was a good day!