The stroller Incident

    Well, Friday the 3rd after the kids woke up from their naps, we took our trip to the pool.  I took my camera so I could get some video of them swimming.   We were having lots of fun and enjoying the sunshine. Ellie enjoys pushing the stroller around when she gets tired of the water. She pushed it around and then climbed on my lap as I floated on a tube in the water. Hudson walked over to the stroller and began to push it. He stopped as our eyes met. Without a word being spoken I knew exactly what he was planning to do. "Hudson do not push the stroller into the pool". He flashed a huge devilish smile at me. I jumped to my feet, nearly dropping Ellie as the stroller entered the pool, launching not just my camera but also my phone into the cool, chlorinated water. I put Ellie down and retrieved my stroller and electronics from the bottom of the pool as quickly as I could. Being too angry to speak, I strapped a screaming Ellie and terrified Hudson to the soaked stroller and headed for home. Moments later we arrived at our apartment. Ellie still screaming and Hudson repeating "I sorry Mommy" in hushed tones. Hudson climbed off the dripping stroller and rushed into the house and locked the door behind him, leaving Ellie and I stranded on the porch. My requests for him to unlocked the door were ignored.  Being trapped in my wet bathing suit on the porch with a screaming baby did not help my mood! I decided to give the back door a try and to my relief it had been left unlocked. When I got inside Hudson was hiding under a pile of pillows. He got to spend the rest of the afternoon in his room.

    The rest of our weekend was slightly more peaceful.  We received church callings. Jake is in the activities committee and I get to teach CTR 4. Monday was our ward picnic at the park. Jake signed me up to bring a dozen cinnamon rolls. I used a recipe that said it would make 18 and ended up with 60!!! I'm still not sure how that happened. It was our own version of loaves and fishes!!! HA HA It was fun to meet more people with young families in our ward. State College is the #1 singles city in America. I feel like the only time we are around people with kids is at church activies. I can go to Walmart and have the only children in the entire store. Its really strange.
    I swore we were done with the pool, but as Tuesday rolled around my heart had softened and we were ready and excited to play in the water again. Sadly when we arrived at the gate we found it locked with a sign that read "pool closed for the season".  Hudson was heart broken.  Big sad tears rolled down his cheeks all the way home. I felt so bad I almost cried as well. Part of me wanted to tell him it was closed because of the stroller incident, but I decided that was just too mean. Instead I told him we would try to find a new pool somewhere in town.
    On Thursday we hiked Mt Nittany with some of our new friends. Well they call it a mountain, but it looks more like a hill to me. We climbed 600 vertical feet in .7 of a mile. Hudson fell about 600 times in .7 of a mile as well. We planned to have a picnic after the hike. We underestimated just how long it would take to hike with our little ones and ended up picnicking in the moon light.  It was still a whole lot of fun.  This is really a beautiful place. We are so excited to explore it.