On the go

Well, our week started off as always on Sunday, which is Cody's one off day. It was very nice outside a little chilly, but it was sunny, so small price. We were ready to get out and "explore". Mind you, our exploring consists of getting in the car and just driving where ever we think is the right direction to whatever you want to see. We do not use directions. We have found the best way to find things is to get lost. Well, we still have been unable to get lost, and of course, to find things there have to be things. :) We found Lake Mattoon, which was unimpressive. We had heard of a lake that was a lot larger about 25 miles. So we headed that direction to scope out fishing spots and check things out. On our way, we passed a historical site that could not be passed up. So I turned around on the highway, we just had to check out the..... 2-story outhouse in a town called Gays.

"It was built in the 1880s for two second-story apartments above the S.F. Gammill general store. While the store has since been torn down, historical enthusiast Pat Goodwin restored the outhouse. Though it is kept locked, passersby can see it along Illinois Highway 16 between Shelbyville and Mattoon.
The outhouse is cleverly designed with offset walls to permit emissions from above safe (but perhaps not-so-silent) silent bypassage of the ground floor seating."

We definitely checked this thing out. It's crazy, but it's real. Needless to say the booming town of 300 residents gave us nothing but a laugh and a memory.

We continued our trip to Lake Shelbyville where we found a couple of parks. One has a beach on the lake and is perfectly set up for an all day adventure of fun in the sun with picnic tables, pavillions, bbq pits, the works. We may have to spend a little time out there in the summer. We had fun playing on one of the playgrounds and just being outside as well as soaking up some sun. While we were out there, we got word that Hagan and Heather had their baby, little Brayden, and now, Baylee has a cousin and I'm officially an Aunt. Congrats to them. We are so excited. I showed Baylee her cousin this morning in some pictures and she got all excited and started jumping and making lots of noise. It was cute. We had a fun day and enjoyed Cody being home with us.

The rest of the week, once again, found us indoors mostly. I did attend a Moms group on Monday night to attempt to network and find friends for Baylee and me, but it wasn't really what I was looking for and am undecided if I will go back. We put together Baylee's walk n ride toy this week. She's not quite the age it suggests, but thought we'd give it a try. She likes to sit on it and likes to play with all of the neat things, but as for the walking part, I'm not sure that she could care less. She did however discover that she can stand up with a box and push it, so I have a box in my floor now, but whatever makes her happy.

I also learned that Baylee can crawl, she just doesn't. It's almost like she is hiding it. Yesterday morning, she went from one side of the room to the other to get a toy and crawled the most of the way. As soon as I said in amazement something along the lines "Baylee, you can crawl, you big faker" she flattened and scooted the last foot to the toy. Funny kid!

We have played A LOT of peekaboo lately. Baylee is so stinking cute. She's playing it all the time and just stares at you until you catch on that she's hiding and you can't see her.

In this picture, you can't see her, tell me what you may, but we all know you can't see her. That jacket is touching the top of her head, that means, she's hiding!

Now you can see her!

Yesterday was very windy, so Cody got to come home early. It was sunny out (yay) so we went for a walk and to the park down the street. We once again enjoyed just soaking in the sun. Baylee got to swing and play with Dad. Needless to say, she took a very long afternoon nap when we got home.

There are some crazy old houses around here, we admired the "run downedness" of them.

At least we have a lot of pictures from this week and a few adventures to tell of! Hope everyone is well!