Domestication

Sunday's family trip to the grocery store.

Shreveport is kind of like having your mom tell you to eat your Brussels sprouts, you know they are probably good for you, but they are pretty darn yucky. Shreveport is teaching us to be domestic. no good take out, no great weekend road trips. it is what it is and more and more we realize that simply spending time at home with our family is the most fun thing to do.

Saturday we attempted a fun family outing to Jefferson, Texas. It was voted in some magazine as a "great place to retire". hmmmm. We finally got on the highway (Shreveport is filming a movie right now and the highway was closed. I thought there was a huge accident since there was smoke everywhere, but instead the film set was there, and there were crashed helicopters, cars on fire, you name it.) Only in Shreveport can you close the major highway running through town with no marked detours. As soon as we got to Jefferson Ada said, "Let's get outta here! I wanna go home!" Reza and I looked at each other, she had taken the words straight out of our mouths. We did stick around long enough to have grilled cheese sandwiches, play on a playground, and buy candy necklaces, then headed home.

So, Sunday we decided just to hang out on Linden Street. A trip to the grocery store, the bookstore. Aside from Ada finding a copy of Little Red Riding Hood with ever-so-accurate pictures, there we very few disasters.

Ada swinging Elias

Our Picnic dinner

The Butterfly

Ada dressed up just like Pinkilicious in hopes that the butterfly would land on her. Many tears were shed after this did not happen. (If you don't know who Pinkilicious is, deem yourself lucky.)

and finally, our dinner entertainment.