What a difference a good nights sleep makes. I feel so much better today. We played a bit this morning. The kids were playing well and then we had some friends come over for a play date. Nicole and Justin had a hard time including their friends in what they were playing. I finally lent out the Chipmunks DVD so this little girl knew what Nikki and Justin were talking about. I finally had to bribe the kiddos to include this one friend. That worked brilliantly but I hate having to bribe them for this reason but I didn’t want the little girl to feel left out. Justin and Olivia raced cars then the kids all did puzzles together. They all had lunch together. Then they got into the dress up bin. Nicole was Cinderella and Justin just put on the shoes and walked around. Poor guy with all these girls around. He is such a trooper. The kids all did shows for us. My kids have been in their jammies all day, for some reason they didn’t want to get dressed today. We played for a bit and cleaned up then the kiddos watched TV. So funny I said after TV it is bath time and Justin says ok we won’t say can we watch one more show. They were great and headed to bath. Bath took a whole new meaning today by adding cups, bowls, spoons, and measuring cup. They are making hot chocolate and cakes. The little figurine Tigger and Pooh have become ice cubes in their cups of “bath” water. Bath went on for a while. The kids wanted to wear dad’s t-shirt-it is so funny. They were loving it and laughing when dad saw them. So they have been in their jammies all day and now dad’s clothes. We had dinner. We had green beans and we always do the green bean kiss, they love it and eat a lot of green beans. They loved when we had it in our mouth pretending it was ours. I pity the person who serves green beans around my kids, ha. The kids played. We built a Lincoln Log House and a Lego police station thing. We gave the kids hot chocolate. That was their reward for including their friend in playing. Bret got the kids music player working that we got them for Christmas, so he loaded songs on it. Now they have the ability to play Alvin and the Chipmunks song whenever they want-what were we thinking? We read some books and Justin was so tired. Justin fell asleep so fast and Nicole is still talking. Today was a nice day at home.
January 12th, 2010 by melissa