Saturday nights

Now, I realize that most people use their weekends and go out and socialize and whatever... but not us!  haha.  Saturday is at the VG household is infamously known (to the adults) as pizza and beer night, but to Tristan and Lucy it's a day where they get to see Grandma and Don.  Grandma usually makes cookies (or some kind of sweets) and they play games, read and run around in their big yard together.  I think it may be one of the highlights for Tristan's week.  And he's so smart too... every Friday night before he goes to bed he says, "Get to see Grandma and Don tomorrow... eat pizza, play chase you, and have alphabet!"  He is SO Excited when we get in the van to go to my parents...

We thought that we'd up the anty on how great his saturday could be.  Ever since we took the trip to the beach he's been asking us to go back.  He even told Gaetan that he was taking Lucy to the beach with him... grabbed her hand and headed for the door.  I was happy to know that he wanted to take her along.  :)  He even has a book that the pages are just beach stuff and he so cleverly left it open to that page and left it on the floor of our bedroom... pretty good at dropping subtle hints for a 2.5 year old :)

We did end up hitting the beach.  It was a lot warmer than the last time we meant, which also meant it was a lot more crowded.  I suppose that it was the weekend too contributed to that, but we had a good time nonetheless.  Lucy was less impressed this time, I think she was to hot really.  The water was pretty cold so Lu didn't want to go in, but Tristan was adventurous and went in pretty far!  He was all about playing in the sand again and making a lake and a castle with Pop.  We had a nice little picnic there, and then it was time to go to Grandma and Don's.  I honestly think that's the only way we're going to get him to leave the beach!

Duder hard at play

Lucy really wanted to wear my sunglasses.  We were also having a snack.

I think this pretty much explains Lucy's life :)

She was so excited to have that hat on she was really mad when I tried to take it off in the car.

After dinner we all went outside.  Grandpa has started their garden and needed to water stuff, so we all went out together.  Tristan rediscovered this little cart/scooter that he and Lucy love to play on.  He likes riding it but he loves pushing her on it too.  Lucy loves riding it, and hasn't quite figured out that the nice thing to do is take turns.

Lucy checking out the horn

I think this is a hilarious picture

Sweet older brother

Dude giving Lucy a ride

She was loving it... see Grandpa's garden in the background!

Chub smile

It's always so nice visiting with them because it's an actual visit.  Just hanging out and talking, laughing, and I know that the kids love spending time with my parents.  And as silly as my parents are I know that they are good to the kids.  I never have to worry about what they might say around them, and I think their strangeness is good for the kids too :).  So, as lame as others might think it is, we love spending our Saturday's with Grandma and Don for pizza and beer night.

JVG