Playing outside and being a bear

We needed to make an emergency trip to the grocery store one evening to buy tater tots. Yes. Tater tots were an emergency b/c we couldn't make tater tot casserole without them.  And I had no other ideas for dinner. Upon walking into the grocery store I fell sucker to the 100 pack of ice pop things for $3.99.  

We let them freeze up and then took 10 of them outside at once (due to Miss M's insistence/persistence).  We had to eat them fast so they wouldn't melt. We made it through 8 of them. I think I ate 5 b/c Mr. Man wanted to take the first bite of each of them and then move on to the next one. 

We've been working on getting Miss M to ride her balance bike. She usually tells us she doesn't want to ride it whenever we ask her if she wants to ride it but lately she's been all about it and she's getting pretty good at it. She made it almost all the way around the block on her bike this weekend. Now if we could just get her to ride it to the park.

She found her Halloween costume in the coat closet and insisted on wearing it around the house and scaring her brother. They both were amused by the costume. It was so hot out. I tried to get her to skip the bear paws for the feet and hands and the hat but she was insistent on sweating her brains out. I think this year will be the year the bear suit actually fits her properly and then we'll be able to pass the suit down to the next kid. Provided nothing major happens to the bear costume it's possible we'll be able to get another four or five years out of this. Impressive for a free costume.