Picnic with Daddy

Last Friday Carly, David Jr, and myself piled into the van and headed south to Columbia.  Our goals for the day were to  A) survive  B) go to the zoo  C) have lunch with my parents and brother  D) not get sunburnt  E) return home in the same day.  Well we accomplished all of this AND Carly got a new lunch box that matches her book bag - both of which she plans to use this fall at preschool.  Over the weekend and for most of yesterday she carried them both around having a lot of imaginary role playing by herself and occasionally saying "preschool."  This morning she told me she wanted to use her lunch box for real.  I told her we would take it for a picnic one day when it wasn't raining and maybe we could have a picnic one day with her dad.  She was satisfied with my response and continued on with her play.  While her back was to me I grabbed the phone and sent David a text message about having a picnic lunch with us one day this week.  A few text messages later we were scheduled for a peanut butter and jelly sandwich picnic in his office's cafeteria for noon that day.

As Carly, David Jr, and I headed off to the gym I told Carly about our lunch plans - in hopes of speeding her up.  This absolutely made her morning.  She told EVERYONE at the gym about her lunch date that was scheduled for later on.  After the gym we came home and made our lunches and packed everything up. Once we arrived at David's office she told and showed EVERYONE her new lunch box.  We had a very short, but pleasant lunch with David and even got to see a few friends.  He was also able to show off both of his children to various co-workers.  Carly is definitely looking forward to using her lunch box again, soon.