{"id":1002,"date":"2019-07-31T20:38:40","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T01:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steele.farm\/?p=1002"},"modified":"2019-07-31T20:38:40","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T01:38:40","slug":"may-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steele.farm\/index.php\/2019\/07\/31\/may-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"May Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s been a few months since I\u2019ve posted anything.\u00a0 The highlight of most of our weeks are the days we get to spend with the girls.\u00a0 With the summer weather we try to do some outside things or take the girls on little trips around town. In early May Ken needed some worm bedding so we took the girls to BassPro.\u00a0 One of the first things Emma spotted was a pink and blue bicycle with training wheels and tassels on the handlebars.\u00a0 She\u2019s been asking for a bike with a bell for her birthday so she was pretty enamored with it.<\/p>\n

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BassPro has a number of pontoons in the building and a deck built so that you can walk right onto them.\u00a0 Emma had no problem climbing into the driver\u2019s seat and giving us orders on where to sit so she could drive, drive us around.
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Margaret, on the other hand, didn\u2019t like being corralled on a boat.\u00a0 She would run up and down the deck hoping to escape to the showroom floor.\u00a0 We had taken both girls up the elevator to check out the second floor and this was Margaret\u2019s favorite thing to do. This elevator has a glass wall so you can see all\u00a0 the stuffed animals as you\u2019re going up . . . and there are buttons to push. But about the only button she could reach was the \u201cEmergency\u201d button.<\/p>\n

We did do a little shopping, checked out the aquarium and Grandpa found his worm bedding. The following Wednesday we asked Emma \u2018where should we go today\u2019, she said the \u2018the fish store\u2019. Well, we went again and spent a little time outside the store driving the utility vehicles.\u00a0 But it wasn\u2019t long and we were inside driving the boats and riding the elevator.<\/p>\n

On another Wednesday, we took them to local park to play.\u00a0 It had been a rainy few days before so the big swings had puddles of water under them.\u00a0 The baby swings were dry so I pushed Margaret for a while.\u00a0 Then she wanted out to run around. That girls is drawn to water like a magnet. It was tough keeping her out of the puddles and she was getting upset with Grandma for keeping her away from them.\u00a0 Ken and I had some good laughs at how determined she was to get wet.<\/p>\n

While Margaret was swinging, Emma was playing with Grandpa on the playground equipment. She liked going down the spiral slide. She was brave enough to climb the steps and the rock wall up to the platform.<\/p>\n

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The girls got to spend the night with Grandma and Grandpa in late May.\u00a0 I had gotten them each a pair of rain boots so they could play in the puddles . . . knowing how much Margaret likes to play in the water.\u00a0 Here are the videos I took, which may have already seen.\u00a0 (Videos) They also did some swinging in the hammock and Margaret rode with Grandpa on his new little John Deere tractor.<\/p>\n