Not this past weekend, but the weekend before, we went with Brian’s family to the wedding of a family friend in Greenlake, WI – total blast – lots of hanging out, having fun, playing on the beach, boating etc. There are only 4 million pics to sort through so, in the meantime, here is a tidbit from last week.

The boys have been in summer camp for the past few weeks (Tues / Thurs only). Brady goes in the morning while the older boys go from 9:15 until 3:15. Last Thursday, I picked up Brady and told him I would treat him to a McDonald’s smoothie for lunch. He said he wanted “strawberry” so I drove through and ordered the strawberry / banana. Upon delivery, he started crying and wailing, claiming that it had seeds in it. I was simultaneously confused and not-at-all surprised. He’s had this smoothie before and liked it, but he does normally order the berry one. Also, raspberry jelly was recently boycotted in our house due to seed content. Feeling bad, I swung through the line again and got him a berry smoothie instead. Shockingly, delivery of the berry smoothie into the back seat only served to increase the crying. I started to get frustrated. Once he calmed down and explained the source of his woes, I understood completely: he was planning on having a Frozen Strawberry Lemonade. Unfortunately, right or wrong, I’m OK with smoothies for lunch, but not the frozen lemonade which I liken to a slushy in nutritional value. After an attempt to explain my position to Mr. Sweet Tooth, I ignored all cries and suggested that he try one or both of his smoothies while I continued on to our next stop, the grocery store. He finally managed to calm down and asked to take BOTH of his drinks inside the cart (which was awesome…because it had 2 (!) cup holders….fun, fun, fun for the double-fister!). They disappeared as we shopped. Crisis averted.

Brady at the grocery store