Last night went well with their own rooms. I don’t think they missed each other. They are loving their own space and things. I went for a run this morning with a friend. It had been a long time-I think all my stamina is gone. Why does it take so long to build up but then it diappears quickly. I was going through things for the kids rooms. I got a few boxes out from my childhood. I got some of my little dolls out that were in my hutch to put in Nicole’s hutch. Justin even wanted them in his room too. We found an old rubick’s cube and Justin happily put it in his room. Justin has been putting most of his stuff in his drawers, we are never going to find their toys again. I let Nicole pick out a couple masks of mine for her room. She may be a little young for them but we will see. Dad gave Justin his model BMW 8 series car to put in his room. After lunch we needed to get out of the house. So we headed to the Spectrum. We walked around a bit, went on the carousal. Justin and dad went on the ferris wheel while Nicole and I went into a few stores. Then the kiddos went in the fountains, they weren’t too into them though. The sun wasn’t on the fountains in the afternoon so the kiddos got cold pretty quickly. We just hung out for a while and were with the kids. Justin saw a train at the Toys R Us holiday store and wanted to watch it again and again. There was a little boy breaking it and bothering Justin so I said he could come back. We almost forgot we promised Justin we could go back. So dad and Justin ran back to see the train quickly while Nicole and I got the car. I love that Nicole loves doing things with me, no matter what I do and Justin loves going with daddy. We dropped our kids off at our friend’s house so we could have date night. Bret and I had a nice night. We came home for a bit and just enjoyed being in our house alone. We went to the District and had dinner. So relaxing and then just walked around the District. No stress or anything, really really nice to be together. The kids had a blast at Paula’s. Justin was so into this race car set. He did it almost the entire time. Paula said Justin took one bit of dinner and said he was done, so he could go back up to the race track. Nicole said she played kitty and played with the girls. After dinner Nicole suggested they go to the park, so they did. I just love to watch Paula’s kids interact with ours, so sweet. Nicole wore Katie’s flip flops home and is so loving borrowing them. We didn’t get the kids to bed until about 8:45. They were too excited to play in their rooms. Justin and I looked out the window when it was dark in his room. He was so excited to see a star and the moon. I did the same with Nicole. So fun to get them alone for a few minutes now while putting them to bed. Got to clean up around here.
September 5th, 2009 by melissa