This weekend we spent some time down at my parents’ house in San Jose. On Saturday we headed to Vasona park with my mom, sister Alexis and her family to see the ducks and enjoy the nice weather. Apparently you can’t feed the ducks anymore (when we were kids you could show up with a loaf of Wonder bread and watch the ducks gobble up the pieces), but it was still fun to watch the birds circle around in the water and quack noisily.

While we were at the park we headed over to Oak Meadow to ride the train with the kiddos. Unfortunately we managed to miss the last ride by a matter of minutes, but luckily the carousel was still running. My mom bought us all tickets and we loaded up the kiddos onto horses side by side. Prim wasn’t super excited about the ride, but she did just sit quietly taking it all in which was pretty interesting since it was really loud and kind of overwhelming, which for most little kids is a recipe for tears, usually.

We headed back home that night after Prim had dinner and vegged out on the couch.

On Sunday we ambitiously decided to go to brunch with Prim. We haven’t been out for brunch with her since she was maybe 2 or 3 months old and would generally fall asleep when we were out, so I knew we were kind of taking a gamble going out with her during waking hours. Plus she’s teething right now (does it ever end??) and was not in the best spirits anyway.

We ended up going anyway, and managed to make it through our meal (though we both took turns taking Prim outside to walk her around while waiting for our food to arrive). It certainly could have been worse, but it wasn’t exactly the fun and relaxing brunch I was envisioning.

After brunch we headed to a local park so Prim could use the baby swings again.

And yes, she did keep getting called “he” and “him” while we were out because of her outfit, but I thought it was cute and the whole “baby gender confusion” thing really seems to bother other people a lot more than it bothers me.

After all that hard work it was time for naps all around (this is KC ignoring the terrible chick flick I was watching while Prim napped, and Penny just finds any opportunity to cuddle, of course.)All in all it was a great way to spend the weekend.