Now that I am working full time again, weekends feel like weekends! We have been watching the Rio Olympics every day since they started, but we wanted to get out of the house a little on our Saturday, too! There is a big play area at the Galleria mall just about 15 minutes away from where we live. Emmy always likes playing with other kids, so it works perfectly to take her. To our surprise, when we got there, Slappy and Monday were putting on a show. They are a couple of vaudeville clowns that perform at the Galleria every Saturday morning. It was a great little show, and Emmy seemed entertained.
Once the show was over, we headed to the play area. Emmy climbed up onto the small rock mountain for the first time and wouldn't come down. She stayed up there as Queen of the Mountain until we told her we had to leave. We had planned to go to Sam's Club for some samples. Emmy now recognizes the word "samples" and didn't need much convincing to leave the mall.
Emmy can actually say "samples" pretty well, which catches a lot of the Sam's Club sample station workers by surprise. As we approach, Emmy almost always yells out "SAMPLES" and the workers laugh and offer her one. Emmy is especially helpful when the workers don't have their samples out yet, because she lights a little fire under them, and we can just smile, as if to say, "Sorry, she is just really excited about samples..." Then we wait there so Emmy can keep putting pressure on them to get the samples ready faster. It is a pretty effective system. Successful Saturday!
