Manual Labor
This morning we were up and getting ready to have trees in the back yard pulled out. The kids and I played upstairs for a while. We played in the tent room, we hadn’t played up there in a while. The kiddos helped me change their beds. We finally made it downstairs and I had hungry children. The kiddos helped me make pancakes. We had a big breakfast then painted. Since the backyard is being demoed the kiddos got to paint in the backyard. They had so much fun painting on a piece of plywood and they made a masterpiece. They painted for so long, paint everywhere-all over their pj’s, feet, arms and in Nicole’s hair. Then Justin wanted to help daddy with the removal of our plants. We paid a guy to help Bret today, so whatever Bret couldn’t do the guy did. Couple hours later our backyard was tree free. It looks so weird back there now. We moved an orange tree and hopefully it will survive. The kids got to see Mr. Lizard, living in our backyard. Poor lizard we keep pulling out plants. Anyway the kids were so messy that I just decided it would be easier to give them a bath. Oh my goodness, bath is so fun for them. Justin loves squirting everything and Nicole likes to throw a wash cloth and go swim after it. They had a blast. After bath we just ate an early lunch then played. We read a ton of books and we have napping kiddos today 🙂 We scrambled to get things done while they napped. Tried to finish out back, work in garage, sell some toys, etc so nap wasn’t very relaxing for us. After nap, Nicole wanted to wear the Dorothy the Dinosaur costume thing including the tail. Such a funny outfit but she looked so cute in it. Justin wanted to dress up too so we put on his pirate costume, still a little big. He makes the cutest pirate ever, but of course I am bias. Since Grammy’s 67th b-day is on Tuesday we took her out for dinner, Old Spaghetti Factory. The kids did great at dinner. After dinner we went to TeWinkle Park to fly kites. Kite flying only lasted a short while as Nicole saw the play structure and wanted to go play then Justin followed. They just re-did this park, it was really nice. Since they napped we stayed late and the kids just had a blast. Just got the last kiddo to bed and we will be following shortly.
