A Schmidling day in the Neighborhood: A week in Missoula

The kids and I went to Missoula for a couple weeks while Clayton was at work. First to get my hair done, next to celebrate Grandpa Scotts birthday and last to house sit for them and take care of my own cat and theirs while they were in Germany. We enjoyed ourselves for the most part. We only had one non-fun event and that was Brianna's doctor appointment. She is 41 inches tall and 39 lbs. Doctor said she is in the 80th percantile. I have one big girl :) I also wieghed Preston on his two month birthday. According to the grandparents scale he weighs 11 lbs 6 oz. on that date at least. I looked at Brianna's baby book and he is bigger than she was at his age. Which doesnt surprise me since it took her awhile to latch on and eat when she was born because she had some infections and he is one hungry boy all the time.

We went to the homecoming parade for the Grizzlies, and helped grandpa get some candy. Afterwards grandma and grandpa got us ice cream. But while while they were gone we colored Bri's house, I sent a text to grandma saying I vaccumed the house and then helped Bri color the walls, hoping to get a bit of a shock out of her but she only laughed and then awwed when I sent a picture of her play house with color on it.

Brianna started riding her big girl bike finally. I had to bribe her to keep going longer than 30 seconds which is what she normally does. Grandpa lost some m&ms to her bike riding, but once she got the hang of it she didnt want to stop. The only problem was that since grandma and grandpa live on the hill we had to go down to Chief Charlo (elementary school on their block) to be able to have a good flat riding area. Before we did though we practiced in the driveway and in the street, which Bri was skeptical about doing (good girl) so mommy persuaded her by telling her since I was there it was okay. When she got to the end of the driveway I would push her back and have her go again. After having her go about 5 times I finally pulled out the camera.

The end of our stay in Missoula we hung out with Shonna, Stephanie and Shonna's boys, Kellan, Merrick, and Ryker. We met up with them at the mall, it was a short visit since it was almost 8 by the time they got there and Brianna and Preston bedtime is 830. So we made plans for the next day. WE went down to Caras park for the farmers market. That ended up being a walk around and mainly just trying to keep the kids under control. So we let them go to the park there and then got a ride on the carousel since Shonna had some tokens. We then ended up going to McDonalds since it is kid friendly and we were all hungry.