Point Park and the weekend

When I was a little baby my parents took me up on Signal Mountain to Point Park and took some pictures of me. When Katie was a baby we decided to do the same with her. Of course then I wanted to do it with Ally and last week we took Blake up there and took some of him as well.
We had fun walking down the little path with my parents and then looking over to see the beautiful river, river banks, mountains, trees, open sky and more from where we were. Katie and Ally thought it was great to be so high and get to see so much.
After that we went to coolidge park and the kids and I rode the caresoul and played in the fountains. Then took a LONG walk around the paths in the park. Finally we ate dinner at Mud Pie for an end to a nice afternoon and a start to a great weekend.
Saturday Joe and I took the kids to the pool. Spent a few good hours there, brought a picnic lunch and then ran errands while 2 of the kids napped in the car. Finally grabbed a bite to eat with some free dinner passes we had and let the kids play at the mall.
Sunday we went to some friends apartment for a cookout. They have 4 cats and 2 dogs in their tiny 1 bedroom apartment. I believe Blake had a same allergic reaction cause he woke that night with a stuffy nose, that went into a green snotty nose and a low grade fever the next day. I took him to the doc Tuesday morning to learn he had a double ear infection. Poor little man. Although I want to blame it on the animals, I think it must have been a cold that went into his ears(although he did not show any signs till sunday night) cause Ally went to bed last night with the sniffles and now has a runny nose and is sneezing. I hate it when my babies get sick. And it runs through all three of them and takes forever for everyone to get well again. And it is so hard to take care of three kids when you aren't feeling well.

Park Days

The kids love to go to the park, although this summer has been so hot we have not been much at all. This morning I got us all up ealy and out of the house for a doc appt. Which, when we got there was next week. Not my fault, the nurses. She gave me the wrong date which I had immediatly wrote in my planner. Oh well, we went to the park instead.
As babies, Katie's and Ally's favorite thing to do was swing, now it is Blake's turn. It is hard to find a park with a baby swing though, and then when you do they are normally in use by someone else searching for one....but this morning was quiet and has one baby swing, unoccupied when we got there. So Blake got to laugh and giggle and have a good time while the girls played.
Then we went to Partville where we had a scheduled playgroups outing. Blake slept in my baby backpack while Katie ran around having a good time and ALly clung to my leg crying! lol Ally did eventually warm up to the place and ran around with the other kids, she never got on the inflatables but she did have fun!