Out All Day
We were out all day. It is nice to be at home. I had to go get a blood test today. I explained to the kids what we were doing and how they needed to act. I even bribed them by saying if you are good we can get ice cream after lunch. To my surprise they were excellent. They immediately sat right down and were the best behaved kids ever. I was so proud even though I did need to bribe them. I probably didn’t even need to bribe them but it doesn’t hurt. Nicole was so concerned about my boo boo-what a sweetie pie. After we got some bagels and went on our way to music class. The kids had fun in music class. They liked playing with the sticks and they also enjoyed climbing all over me. After music we went to Fashion Island. We went to Barnes and Noble and the kiddos played with the train table. I wanted to read books with them but they wanted to play trains. Finally Nicole found a potty book she loved. She said she loved it because of the little girl. There was a little boy there who was a nightmare, Justin and Nicole just kept on looking at him. I wish I knew what Nicole and Justin were thinking. This kid was out of control. Grammy met us there and then we had lunch. Nicole decided she needed a high chair. I let the kiddos bring their skateboard dog and cat. So they had fun pulling them around the mall. After lunch I promised the kiddos ice cream so off to Hagan Diaz. The kids both wanted chocolate ice cream. Who knew a cone could make such a mess. Justin was a little messier than Nikki. They had ice cream everywhere on their face, clothes, shoes, etc. But they loved it and they were so cute eating it. They were playing on the grass area. Security scolded me as he thought my kids were too far away from me. Everybody commented that it looked as though the kids liked ice cream. Serious mess! After the kiddos played in the area with the fish. They both wanted to go to Grammy’s house, so off we went. They played for a bit. Grammy bought them trikes and she put one together, so they both wanted to ride the one. Of course I had their trikes in the back of my car but they weren’t good enough. So Grammy tried to get the other one together but no luck. So we finally got in the pool. Nicole is a little fish these days, she loved it. Justin had fun too. They both jumped in and I caught them. They played on the stairs too. Justin got out first and Nicole stayed in for a long time. Justin even said he went pee pee on the potty. After we got out of the pool, we decided to stay at Grammy’s. Daddy came over too. The kids built cd towers and took turns with the one bike while dad built the other one. I was so impressed watching the kids share the bike. They were communicating well and taking turns without adult intervention, it was amazing. We had dinner but the kids didn’t eat too much. They were too excited to ride their bikes. They rode around the pool, having fun together, and filling the baskets on their bikes. They watched a little TV and then it was time to come home. The kiddos were tired, it was a long day. They went to sleep pretty quickly.