Ridin' the Slide

Today was a pretty typical day. We played outside a lot and checked on all our veggies and animals. Dad came home early this afternoon since he had to pick up the milk samples from ISU for the Dairy Foods CDE tomorrow. Since he is staying home and not traveling to NE Iowa we had to go to town and meet the State Advisor to transfer the milk samples. Meanwhile we took Clark to Inis Grove Park. Clark loves slides and today was the first day he went down the slide all on his own. He knows how to sit and push off to make himself slide. He even tried the twisty slide all on his own and went down that one a number of times. The slide set also has a large fish that can be crawled on and he enjoyed trying that out too! Then we went to Pizza Ranch (with Woody), Clark's favorite restaurant -- he enjoyed pointing out all of the cowboys and horses and ate and ate and ate.

On our way home we stopped at the bookstore and picked up a few books. We found a new Biscuit book for Clark. (If you don't know Biscuit is a dog.) Honestly this past week I have probably read Biscuit Goes to the Pumpkin Patch at least 20 times.

Train Crossing Update: The barricades are down and the train crossing is finished! It's really nice -- all paved and smooth. Bad part is the traffic is back. It was nice and quiet for a few days with no cars going by.