Let's go fly a kite???

We went for our usual Sunday afternoon at DotDot and Grandaddy's house yesterday. We headed straight outside again because the weather was too good to pass up.  Drew and Anna Kate helped Grandaddy feed the birds, played on the swings and slide, went for a wagon ride. Then we had lunch and painted before a very short nap (I'm not sure they slept any since they fell asleep in the car on the way home).  After naps it was back outside! Drew and Anna Kate got a kite from the Easter bunny and yesterday was the perfect, windy day to break it out.  Our kite experience didn't go quite as planned (see below).  DotDot and Grandaddy's neighbor Ryan came down for a bit to play with Drew and Anna Kate and we played ball, blew bubbles, watered the flowers, and had popsicles. We topped the afternoon off with a golf cart ride before dinner.  Drew was having some stomach troubles yesterday but hopefully they are over with and he didn't share with Anna Kate. There was a mean stomach bug that took everyone in the Garland family out after our Easter celebration except for me and the babies. I meticulously sanitized everything in our house to ensure John Clay didn't give it to anyone else after he was sick on Monday night. I am hoping this nastiness goes away very, very, very soon and doesn't come back... ever. There is lots of fun to be had and there is no time to be sick!

 The kite was kind of crazy! It took several tries to get it up in the air. It would go up and do crazy spirals and then dive bomb us. We were all ducking and running. It would have been funny to watch, I am sure!

 Anna Kate and Aunt Ashley supervising.

 The kite fun was short lived. The string got out a little too long and this happened. It wound itself around the power lines several times and I feel pretty confident it will be up there for quite a while!

 Drew helping Grandaddy assess the situation.

Hahaha! Anna Kate was determined she was just going to jump up there and get it.

 They moved on from their stranded kite pretty quickly to the swings.

 Popsicle break with Ryan the neighbor. Anna Kate and Drew enjoying playing with him.

 Watering DotDot's flowers. That yellow flower should do well because I think that his the only one he put his several cans of water on.

Anna Kate stepped on and broke several flowers while she was watering. I'm not sure she didn't cause more harm than she helped. But she tried!