The week that was.

Last week was a pretty busy day for Squidge.  She went to Hol­i­day Zone at my fit­ness club where she swam, did crafts, played some sports and made some choco­late.  Any guesses which was her favorite activ­ity??  Well fun­nily enough it was a close tie between swim­ming and choco­late mak­ing.  She’s got­ten very very good at swim­ming and is really into it at the moment!  We’ve been swim­ming pretty much every day and some­times if we go in the morn­ing she wants to go back in the after­noon!  Putting on a still wet swim­suit is NOT fun!

She also really enjoyed mak­ing choco­late w/ Simon Dunn.  I had signed her up to Choco­late Mad­ness at our club ages ago and invited one of her BFF’s to join her.  They were beyond excited…

When I picked them up 2 hours later they told me all about the fun time they had. Each of the girls had a choco­late lolly and 3 molded choco­lates– dinosaurs, dogs, frogs, tur­tles, that sort of things.

Squidge wants to have a choco­late birth­day party next year.  I told her we would wait and see.  Con­sid­er­ing she tells me in an almost weekly basis that she wants this sort of party or that sort of party so she’ll change her mind a few dozen times before her birth­day rolls around again!

After Choco­late Mad­ness I asked them where they’d like to go for lunch and of course they said McDonald’s so off we went. I was very proud of myself that although I did eat there I stuck to low points food and stayed within my points that day! The girls had a fab time then it was back to the club to meet another friend from school and do some swim­ming! I think Squidge is turn­ing into a fish!

Last Tues­day we also went to Chester Zoo with a few of our friends.  The girls were very excited and looked at the map to plan out our route.

We had a pic­nic lunch and then we hit the park, every­one had a fab time. Well except when we went to the Bat enclo­sure– it was very dark and very very very stinky! We pretty much ran through the place and out the door! Their favorite part was the Dinosaur exhibit. They spent a few months this year study­ing dinosaurs so they all found it very cool to see what they had stud­ied. They ran around shout­ing when they rec­og­nized one. Squidge still knew tons of infor­ma­tion on all the dinosaurs and told me all about it as we walked through.  Very proud of my clever girl!  Squidge’s favorite one was the one that spit water at you. She’s such a loon! She stood in front of it for ages, shuf­fling to the left and the right try­ing to jockey into posi­tion so she would get spat at!