Merrin's weekend

Merrin had herself a busy weekend, full of friends, swimming and train rides! On Friday, my friend Kellianne and her little girl, Katelyn (17 months), came over for a play date at the pool. Our neighbor, Laura, and her little girl, Lily (5 months) who ironically happens to be Katelyn's cousin, also joined us at the pool and these bathing beauties had a great time! Katelyn and Merrin enjoyed a picnic table lunch by the pool and thoroughly enjoyed eating each others' yogurt, it was hilarious...I think they even exchanged sippy cups at one point. Kellianne and I were so tickled at our little giggling girls because they rode in Merrin's wagon and laughed the whole way back to our house from the pool.
There is nothing sweeter than the sound of your child's laughter.








On Saturday, Keith and I found ourselves in unusual territory because we had NO PLANS!! It seemed like it had been forever when we had a weekend with nothing previously planned. Although we probably would have enjoyed laying around the house and doing nothing...our toddler who is transitioning to one nap a day would have become quite bored with us so Keith came up with a terrific idea!!! We took Charlotte's new and exciting light rail downtown and showed Merrin the Queen City. Merrin is officially an "uptown girl"! We had the best time!!! The light rail in itself was exciting and then just walking around downtown and eating lunch at Brixx was a lot of fun. We planned our trip out perfectly by catching the train at just the right time to bring us back home and put Merrin down for her afternoon nap on schedule. If any of you haven't had the chance to ride the light rail yet, we highly recommend it! Oh, and for all you Charlotteans who don't know what "downtown" means...its my country way of saying "uptown"...growing up in the country, we didn't have "uptowns", just downtowns!! Ha!