The Chicken Crossed the Road to Play Football

It’s been really, really hot and humid here the past few days so we’ve actually spent less time outside than we have before. This morning we just laid around in our air-conditioned apartment and were lazy. But, it didn’t take long until Bree was feeling cabin-fever restlessness. So, we decided we’d take her to the mall where we could grab lunch and also let her play on their indoor toddler play area. We parked right next to the road and needed to cross it to get inside. Before we even got out of the car Bree noticed that we were going to be crossing a road and was saying “Taking ‘cross (across) the road? Taking ‘cross the road?” As in “Are you taking me across the road?” Even though I knew what she was saying, because of the way she pronounces her t’s it totally sounded like she was going “Chicken cross the road? Chicken cross the road?” Of course, Travis, with the sense of humor he has, couldn’t resist that so he was answering her every time with “To get to the other side.” Then she’d go “yep,” since that was why she wanted to cross the road too, naturally. We got inside, let her play awhile and then bought lunch where we got a nickel back as change. Brianna was saying “change? My change? My penny?” (Because we often give her our extra coins to put in her penny bank.) So, her daddy told her “That’s a nickel. Let’s put it in your pocket here.” Then she couldn’t find it and was asking “Where’d my pickel go is?”

Later in the day, when it cooled off a bit, we decided to have a picnic for dinner. We took ourselves down to a grassy area, laid down a blanket and had some sandwiches. Then we all played pass the football. Bree was surprisingly good at it. Travis was trying to explain running and tackling to her but she didn’t really get it, she would get the football and just stand there until Travis “tackled” her. She didn’t really understand tackling either, although, at one point she ran up to me, hit my shoulder and said “Tackle Mommy!” But I’m not going to describe the football session anymore since a picture is worth a thousand words…check the pix out below!