May 27th Rowan bridged from Daisy Girl Scouts to Brownies. She gets to have her same troop leader, Sara, so we're all happy! Rowan and I get to go to a You & Me camp at the Girl Scout lodge in June, and then she gets to go camping with her troop in July. She's pretty excited!May 29th Rowan's elementary school had a 5k run. My sister, Merrick and me drove from one checkpoint to the next to cheer her on. They had police escorts and everything! Merrick held up a sign that said "GO ROWAN GO". He had fun waving at her and her friends going by.
Rowan and her friend Tayci walked a lot of the course but had a great time. On May 31st, Alex and I took the kids to the zoo. It was perfect weather and a lot of the animals were out. Merrick loved the merry-go-round and the train. Everyonethought it was gross when the giraffe had to 'do his business' and Rowan kept telling me "he's still going..." I steered clear of the glass windows of the 'cages' that housed spiders, snakes and scorpions. Rowan has been having fun playing with her friend Alex Back. It's funny... When I was a kid, Alex Back's dad, Randy, was my best friend, and now his kid is buddies with my kid! Weird! They spend hours riding bikes, jumping on the trampoline, playing on the playground or swimming in the little pool at my mom's. And, it always seems that kids have the best hearing, but only when it comes to hearing the ice cream truck heading our way. I'm sure that I could've bought at least 4 or 5 boxes of creamy delights for the price of a few visits from the ice cream man. But, it's a childhood summer tradition!

When crawfish attack!

May 23rd, Alex and I took the kids fishing. Rowan caught a HUGE crawfish, lobster sized!, but it got away. I was the only one that






caught one, but even then, I thought I only had my hook caught on a branch. The weather was pretty cold when we got there, and it was sooo windy! We decided to eat our lunch first and the whole time Rowan kept saying she was COLD! After about 20 minutes, the sun came out and it warmed up a little bit. Rowan and Merrick didn't understand that after you cast your line, there is a fair amount of waiting involved. They hiked around and hung out, and it seemed that I had to brush an awful lot of red ants off of Merrick. The kids liked climbing all over the rocks and I liked it when the sun would shine for a few brief moments.