Being the first Daddy Date with Bella I knew it should be the easiest, because she would be excited to spend time doing anything. As time goes on though, I assume it will get harder as I run out of ideas.
We started by going to Walmart, just so we could get some cool treats for the morning. She got Zebra cakes, it was so funny watching her change her mind as quickly as we could pick things up. She wanted to 'skip' the whole way from our car to the entrance, so manliness be darned, we both skipped all the way into and thru some of Walmart.
My dad gave the kids some kites for Christmas, and so I brought her scooter and the kites with us to Mill Creek Park, and since it was a windy day....AND COLD....it was fun. The kite is one of those Air Foils, so it pulls pretty hard. She almost let it go a few times. We didn't get very far with the scooter, because like I said IT WAS FREEZING! One hilarious things she did was when she saw me taking her picture on the scooter, she insisted on posing with it kneeling beside it. The is so Bella.
Bella had a birthday party to go to last Saturday and it was at the Clubhouse in Statesboro, a bowling alley with games and lots of stuff. Each kid was given a game card to play arcades and she had $3.25 left on the card. So that is where we went first, and I let her play a few arcades and then we played Ski Ball so long (letting her win) that the game actually timed out and declared a winner before either of us went to 7!
Then we went to the college campus. This was the most fun to me. We went over to where the lake is near the library. When we got there we noticed the ducks were definitely expecting us to have something to feed them. So Bella broke off pieces of twigs and threw them to them, I told her it wasn't fair and she apologized to the ducks. I downloaded an app on my phone that has duck and geese calls, decided to try it. We had white ducks in front of us first, the duck calls were of Mallards, and as soon as I played it, they came swimming over. Then lost interest quickly and paddled away. I tried the goose one, and that was cool, there was one goose, and he was walking over to us, honking at us, and if I stopped the call, he would slowly walk away, and if I started it up, he would come back, staring at us looking VERY confused and trying to call out to this hidden goose. Bella and I had fun just sitting and talking, and she has my random brain, so she grabbed some acorns, and told me, 'you have to hold them over your heart and say the predge of leegees' or "pledge of allegiance'. So we held these acorns over our hearts and recited it three times. That was fun. Then we played follow the leader over the brickways on campus and skipped back to the truck.
A very good first Daddy Date.
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