Wednesday’s with Maci (And Molly and Abygail)

Many of you have loved my 365 photos of Maci, but honestly I take way more than one photo a day so I have decided to start a “Wednesday’s with Maci” blog! Yay! Every Wednesday Maci and I are going to go on an adventure and we will come here to share it with you!

We will talk about fun (kid friendly AND budget friendly) things that you can do with your kiddo this summer in Southeast Missouri. Today we spent a whopping $3 on ice cream and water, and we were entertained all day long!

This morning we got to meet the most precious little girl. My friends Cara and Terry welcomed their little girl, Abygail, into the world last night so Maci and I went to take some “fresh 48” photos for her! And we loved every minute of it. Maci wanted to hold her so bad, but mama (Me. Maci’s mama. The mama of the crazy two year old.) was worried so she just got to look at her. How sweet is she?!

After we were finished visiting Miss Abygail, we went for our picnic! I packed a lunch to make this more of a budget friendly day and Maci loved the idea of a picnic so it was a win win. I kept our food cold in a cooler in the car this morning and it worked well! I did forget to pack drinks though, so we had to buy some water.

Yes, we played with our food. Yes, I know little girls are supposed to have better manners. But her grown family members still laugh at burps and farts so we might just struggle in the “good manners” department until she’s old enough to know what’s acceptable at home and what’s acceptable in public.

Next stop, Discovery Playhouse! Maci’s great grandma gave her some money for Christmas this year so we bought a Discovery Playhouse membership with it! She LOVES that place, and since we have a membership it goes on our budget friendly summer activity list!

The baby nursery area is super cute! They have doctors coats, hospital gowns, doctor tools, and (Maci’s favorite) babies! She loves to check on them and make them feel better. She didn’t play with the babies as long as she usually does today though. She really enjoyed dressing up like a fire fighter! It is so much fun for me to watch her pretend play skills develop. She was taking “emergency calls” today and rushing to the “fire.” Her facial expressions were the best. She would go from super serious to the “its an emergency” face. She took emergency call after emergency call and put out fire after fire.

Our last stop of the day was Simply Swirled. We spent $2 on our ice cream! We don’t eat much and they charge by weight so, you guessed it, budget friendly! We met baby Molly and her mama there. Molly didn’t like me today AT ALL, but she still loves Maci. And Maci loves her “little bitty tiny” toes.