Playing in the rain. This morning we woke up to thunder/lightening and rain. Very very strange for around here. My cold is getting better, still just have the heavy feeling in the head. Luckily it goes away with drugs, I just have to keep remembering to take them. The kids got to take home the sharing box from school. So they pretended they were in school and pretended they were sharing. Nikki was sharing her Barbie dog that she renamed Bongo and Justin was sharing his motorcycle toy Nikki had given him. They colored a bit. I started moving my scrap book stuff upstairs, what a production. It lead to cleaning more stuff out then I moved into out closet. It started pouring out so we all went out to play in the rain. The kids had a blast. As I was cleaning a good will type truck pulled up. Perfect timing, I got all the bags I had out of the garage. Playing out in the rain lasted a long time. They used umbrellas, played with snails, rode bikes, used a pop up beach thing as a tent, etc. The pop up beach thing came in the garage and the kids used their scooters with it and it was a tunnel. They pretended that they were Care Bears for a bit too. I tried for the longest time to get the kiddos to take a bath. I don’t think I ended getting them into the bath until 3:00ish. The kids helped me organize our closet upstairs a bit and bring my scrapbook stuff up. Of course that led to playing. They cut up lots of paper with my squiggly scissors on our bed, paper everywhere. They colored and did stickers upstairs as well. They played cars….cars everywhere upstairs. Both kids rooms were a mess. We were home all day but it wasn’t so bad. Nikki wanted to wear a red hat like Alvin, so I found an A sticker and put it on it. I had been trying to get to the grocery store all day but it pretty much rained all day. Nikki got a little cranky before 5:00. She didn’t want Justin to sit on the step. So after crying a bit she came downstairs. I think she felt bad as she agreed to watch Thomas. She usually never lets Justin watch Thomas. Then they watched Martha speaks. We had dinner then just played games. We played Uno, Crazy 8’s and Go Fish. It was fun just hanging out as a family. Hopefully tonight is the end of the rain and my cold! Kiddos are sleeping.
October 19th, 2010 by melissa