TGIF, Park Day, Quiet Time

TGIF! It has been a good Friday here in FamilyOf5 Land. The kids and I headed to the park this morning and stayed for about 2 1/2 hours. It was a warm day, but the kids had lots of fun digging in the sand and playing on the playground equiptment. The Knight is getting more and more content to stay in one spot and play as opposed to running for the hills every 5 minutes. The Prince had a great time sharing the shovels we brought from our house. We brought 6 shovels for 3 kids with every intent of sharing, and share we did. It is neat to sit back and see how the kids work out a fair process for sharing things. We had 9 kids in our group and others not in our group wanting to share, and there were no fights over the shovels! Yee haw! The Princess, being the oldest of our group, made sure that everyone shared and everyone got a turn. A natural leader! This afternoon, the boys napped while Princess stayed up and worked on her new reading computer game. She is getting pretty good at it. I was hoping for a bit of a break but alack and alas that was not meant to be. The Princess also painted a bear mask. We hope to write a little play using the bear mask and videotape it for the Grandparents next week! That will be fun if it works out! Tonight after supper, DadOf3 and I took the kiddos for a nice, long walk. It was hot, and we had lots of complaining at first but after the initial whining, we were good to go. When we got home, DadOf3 lowered our basketball hoop so the Prince and the Princess could practice shooting hoops! They each made several shots and wanted to make more! That will be fun to do in the mornings while we have shade in the front yard! After baths, the kids are all now tucked up in bed and it is time for a little quiet time for MomOf3 and DadOf3. TGIF! It is hard to believe (because I am actually pretty tired tonight) but I only got 11500 steps on my pedometer today. That is far below my high of 23000+ last week. We didn't go walking the trails at the park because the mosquitoes were out this morning. Another day!