Flat Mindy Goes to the Park

Ellie was super excited about this new adventurous auntie, and so excited to help construct her. After Ellie went to bed the first night, I thought maybe Flat Mindy might want a few adjustments to her wardrobe, seeing as how Actual Mindy has been functioning as family wardrobe consultant for years. So I trimmed up the shoes, slimmed the pants a touch, and colored everything a little smoother (sorry, no stripes!). Ellie didn't notice at all, except that she wishes the socks were red. She wants to make a whole bunch of red "accessories" for "Toy Mindy," as she calls her. (She also has been begging for a Toy Tommy. We'll see.)

So we gave Flat Mindy a shiny, protective, laminated cover, put a little magnet on her back (not a beetle!), and headed off for a promised adventure to the park.

Charlie wasn't so sure about this idea of sharing his swing.

Or the slide. 

Ellie was ready to show Flat Mindy all around the park, though. Here they are climbing on whatever this thing is.

Flat Mindy riding shotgun while Ellie drives the stagecoach.

  
Then Ellie realized she needed a driver for her carriage, since she was a princess and all. Flat Mindy was happy to oblige while Ellie sat in the back "being royal."

And then, of course, they had to dance on the stage (the gazebo). By then Charlie  started to catch on to how this worked and we took Flat Mindy over to the  playground.

Climbing and climbing together.

And Charlie's very, very favorite: jumping on the bouncy bridge!

So much fun, Charlie wanted Flat Mindy to jump and jump too! (We were very glad Flat Mindy had decided to go with the protective lamination at this point.)

It was a great day at the park that wore us out. Only Flat Mindy was up for what I like to call "Death Trap Slide." Adventurous as ever.

Once upon a time...

Written on Nov. 18, 2014: Today I am posting this on this blog because I am not keeping up quite as I'd hoped in my catch-up posts for this blog. But I actually have been doing some blogging and wanted to transfer some of those posts over here. You know. For posterity.

My family has been keeping a separate blog while my sister, Mindy, has been living in England for the last few months, taking turns posting. So I am transferring some of the posts I put up over there. But I wanted to include this introductory post that I actually didn't write. Another sister, Renee, was quite clever in coming up with this idea and wrote the following post:

Once upon a time lived a girl named Flat Mindy.  She had an alter-ego called Actual Mindy.  Actual Mindy had lots of adventures, traveling to foreign lands visiting castles and Wonky Towns.  She has her own blog for adventures.  (Her blog has much better grammar than this one might... Luckily Actual Mindy is off the clock and can ignore any major errors...)

Flat Mindy decided while Actual Mindy was out in the wide world (across the pond, as they say) she would stay in Idaho and Utah for some family adventuring.  So she grew out her hair, put on her giant shoes, and decided to get to it.  Well, tomorrow.  It's nearly bedtime, after all. 

Thanks to dear Ellie for making sure Flat Mindy is all ready for her adventures (and has the appropriate hair length).

To be continued....

So that's the project that started in September. Each sibling and my parents all have a Flat Mindy to take to different activities. There are several posts on the separate blog that we made for this project, but I am just going to transfer the ones I wrote. Apparently Blogger is going to shuffle them back in to chronological order in this blog, putting this one in September, even though I'm posting it in November. Anyway, I will add the others over the next few days.