Day #7: The Parents and Kids of Proctor: May 17

 Day 7 Blog:

Today was another beautiful day working with Mabel and Willa. This morning I started out hanging in their front yard doing chalk and bubbles, and "fishing" (a stick fishing rod and the lake was a pile of leaves). 


About half way through the morning, Willa went back inside and me and Mabel went to take a walk around campus. She got to try on the new shoes that I got for graduation and the "prom" and loved how sparkly they were. It was a lot of fun to get to have some time with Mabel. 


After lunch, I went to the house again to pick up Mabel and we went on a walk again to look at some of the blooming trees. We also took a trip to the locker room to try out the lacrosse gear. She also started gathering some berries from the trees into her bucket. It was a super fun day in the sunshine!

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