Busy Day Outside

We started the day early with a walk way over the hill.  Bridget surprised me when she saw a tree that had fallen and said, "Tree fall down."  She is up to 3 word sentences now.  On the way up the hill Bridget kept saying tractor so I guessed she wanted a ride on the lawn tractor, which hasn't happened in a long time.  First Papa gave them a ride, which Jillian wasn't happy with because Papa didn't go the right way.  So I gave them the next ride and happily Jillian can steer much better. ( I just had my hand by the steering wheel to make quick corrections if need be.)  She did great and wanted to go really fast down the hills.   We rode the loop at least 3 times plus other side trips.  

Next Jillian had a new bug catcher so we went on a quest to find bugs.  Where are they when you want them?  We finally found a spider for her jar, then a couple of beetles, and a potato bug.  Most of the time she just scooped them into her jar.  She would gingerly try to pick them up but they were too fast.  We almost got a butterfly which she caught with her net but it got away right when she tried to put it in the jar.  After showing her bugs to Mommy and Daddy when they came, she let the bugs go back to their homes.

Since the girls hadn't been here for awhile and the day was nice, they had to do everything they usually do outside.  They rode the jeep and quad, had a tea party, played a long time in the sandbox, and pretended to sleep in the hammock while I sang "Rock a bye baby" and whenever I tried to quit Bridget would say, "Sing Rock baby."