sunday lovely sunday

it's been a long day today...ted decided to go skating at the wilson skate park at 8:30 this morning...cadence and i tagged along cuz she's never seen her dad skate and she's never been to any of the chicago beaches...oh wait, now that i think of it, ted may have taken her there without me once...well, she's never gone there with ME, so to me it's like it never happened...anywho, she slept through the whole thing, so i STILL haven't had a chance to show her our beautiful lakefront...

there was this lady talking really loud on the cell phone...after she got off, she noticed cadence and went ga-ga over her...she was really excited about getting a stack of rolling stones from the 70's out of storage...she'd kept saying on the phone something about stones, and i had imagined to myself that she had a rock collection or something, but i guess it was a different kind of rock...that's one of the cool things about chicago...you always run into these colorful characters who are kooky but really nice...

ain't these shoes lovely? i don't buy cadence a lot of shoes, cuz they're really a waste of money for a tike who can't even walk yet and who prefers to pull her shoes off as soon as she gets in her carseat...but i really like these...they'll be esp cute for the fall, and i'm hoping she'll be walking sometime in the next several months, but that's doubtful cuz she just LOVES to speedcrawl...

so cadence finally woke up when i got back to the skate park from the beach...we got to see her daddy skate a little bit...here she is playing with her zipper...she's the granddaughter of a mechanical engineer, ya know...

...and here they are...the two partners in crime...in CUTENESS crime, that is! yeah, i think my hubby and baby are just absolutely adorable together...

...after the skate park, ted had plans to meet up with his coworkers at welles park for a game of ultimate frisbee, so we all walked over there from our apartment...cadence and i visited the playlot while her dad got all sweaty again...cadence absolutely adores the swings, and she cries when i take her out of it...there were tons of babies and little kids at the park, and it was a lot of fun...cadence loves other little kids...

...after ted pulled a butt muscle, we just hung around a bit...watched a bunch of folks playing horshoes in the pit...that was pretty cool actually...it just looks so absolutely impossible to nail that stake, but they do it, and it's a lovely sound when they make their target...kinda like a basketball going 'whoosh' i guess...

we ate lunch with a couple of ted's coworkers at the bad dog tavern...they have a great outdoor SHADED patio with lovely flowers and a really yummy brunch menu...it was nice to spend time with some of ted's coworkers, esp. rhino (ryan) who we've gone snowboarding/skiing with and who is one of the nicest guys i've ever met...

anywho, i'm exhausted now...it's been a loooong weekend...and i still have to make goody bags for cadence's party...