Heading out for some fun - TGIF!

The Prince, the Knight, and I are heading out for some fun this morning with my MOPS group. We are heading out to a little park that has cow statues and a pond with ducks. We will bring some old bread and feed the birdies. It will be interesting to see how the Knight does with this. He tends to migrate towards water and then directly into the water. I had better bring a change of clothes now that I think about it. I'll bring the camera and let you know how it goes. (BTW, I did get 20000 steps in on Wednesday! Woo hoo! A new record!) It is going to be another gorgeous day here - 80 degrees and sunny. We had another rough morning with the Princess. She does not like to have anyone awake when she wakes up on school days except me. She gets mad at the Prince when he comes downstairs early and basically tells him to go back up. Well, we amended our Behavior chart to include early morning behavior too. She was moved to OOPS this morning after not being kind to the Prince. It made for about a 40 minute fight which left about 20 minutes for her to get dressed, eat breakfast, brush her teeth, go potty, and put on her shoes. NOT a fun way to start the day. We had no time to read which really bums me out. The Princess is actually reading! She is not even 6 years old yet. I love to hear her read to me. On a good day when we get up at 6:00AM, she is done getting ready by 6:30 and we have an entire 1/2 hour to read together. Days like this bum me out because I feel like she missed out on some good reading practice. We are going to keep up the reading over the summer. I am going to have her write letters to her friends, cousins, and grandparents through the summer to keep up with her writing. After the Princess got on the school bus, the boys and I settled in for the day. They have had breakfast and are now watching Cars. I wanted to get a picture of the Prince this morning with his beloved tractors. It took me three tries to get a good shot. I was just going to put in the good one but then I thought showing the entire process could be amusing. Have a good day!