Beautiful Day
This morning we started a new class, Messy, Muddy, Hands, and Toes. We are taking the class with lots of friends (Vena, Candice, Stacie, and a mom from pre school) which makes it more fun. The kiddos had a blast in the class. The first project was to decorate a bird house. I think the birds will be afraid to eat out of ours-ha ha ha. It was cute. Justin and Nicole loved squeezing out the glue, glue everywhere. Then they added sparkles, puffy paint, etc. The next project was painting. Justin and Nicole really like painting with these special brushes. The last project was gluing feathers to paper. Again with the glue. The kids were so excited about the feathers. Their projects were very cute and the kiddos had a lot of fun. They didn’t like their hands all gluey and sparkly, so they kept wanting to wipe them which I anticipated. After class we went to the park for a bit. Justin is getting so independent. I had to run to the car so Justin wanted to go to the park with his friends where Nicole wanted to come with me. It makes me sad to see him getting so independent but it is what kids do. The kiddos found water to play with in the park, walking in it and getting all sandy, dirty, and wet. That kept them occupied for a while. Heritage is an older park but the kiddos all had fun. We came home and had lunch and play time. The kids played in the back yard. Well the kiddos didn’t take a nap, no surprise there. I can’t believe they are not exhausted as I am so tired by the end of the day. Nicole got out of her bed a few times. Every time I caught her she was over at Justin’s bed having a conversation with him. I love when she calls him buddy, like I call him. I love yelling to the kids that they can get out of their beds, they came running downstairs as fast as they can. We watched TV for a little while. Then play time. We played in the futon room for a while. I read some books, we played with Lincoln Logs, the fire engine, the kitchen, etc. That room gets pretty crowded when all the toys are on the floor. Daddy came home a little early as he had to work this evening. The kiddos and I heard the garage so we waited in the laundry room and yelled boo at daddy. We continued to play in the futon room, then we were all starting to get bored. So we grabbed the doll strollers and went for a walk around the neighborhood. It was a nice relaxing walk. The kiddos played with mail boxes, rocks, etc. We came home and the kiddos helped me make dinner. They wanted to color with markers. After dinner, we cleaned up with the kiddos. Then daddy had to work. The kids took a bath. Justin was drinking in the tub and got water in his nose, so he took a pretty short bath. I think Nicole liked bath to herself. And Justin and I had fun playing outside of the tub. Justin gave me a haircut, got me Starbucks out of the closet, etc. Justin is doing ok with potty training. We put underwear on him again. The minute he starts to pee he notices and runs over to the potty. So he is getting there. After bath the kids took all the socks and underwear out of the drawer and put them in their beds. Luckily they enjoy cleaning it up as much as making the mess. Then we just read books. I think I read the Mickey Mouse book 5 times. They were pretty tired and all is quiet upstairs.
