Balloon Fun!

Prince got a Rocket Pack!

Princess got a Pink Flamingo!

My little Knight got a giraffe!

DadOf3 and I took the kids on a date last night. We went to one of the kids' favorite restaurants. There was a Balloon Guy there! He was quite talented and made all sorts of balloon creations for the kids eating at the restaurant. Here is what he made for our kids!

Thursday Night Date Night!

We had a nice Family Date Night last night. We all went out to one of our favorite restaurants. They have good, reasonably priced food and a fun play-scape outside. There was a chance of rain but it actually held off so the kids could play for a bit!

A good time was had by all!

Daddy and Daughter Date Day!

I love posting this! My husband took a 1/2 day off from work today to spend with our daughter. He will do the same for our oldest son in the very near future.

Princess and DadOf3 are having a Daddy and Daughter Date Day!

Last year before Princess started Kindergarten, DadOf3 took Princess dress shopping. Oh my! She remembers that day well and has been asking for several weeks when she and Daddy can go dress shopping again! She loved getting some fun dresses and spending some special time with Daddy.

This year they are making a whole afternoon of it! They are going dress shopping, stopping at McDonald's for a bite to eat, and then heading to a movie.

I think it is so special for the Dads out there to spend one on one time with their children. Girl's will look at this time as a model of how boys should treat them when they are older. Boys will look at this time as a model of how to behave themselves. I am a stay at home Mom so I have many opportunities to spend one on one time with my kids. Dad's have to make a special effort to do this.

Did I mention that I married the most wonderful man in the world? :)

Saturday Of B and BZ's Visit

We had an outstanding day on Saturday and even more fun on Saturday night! We took the kids out to play in the backyard and they had fun playing and showing off for B and BZ. That night we got a babysitter and went out. It was so much fun! First we went out to eat and then we went to a show called Ester's Follies. The show is kind of a live version of Saturday Night Live. It is very political and very funny! We plan to take other visitors to this as they come to visit us! (Hint hint hint!) It was a great double date night Saturday night!

Friday Night

TGIF once again! This is the Princess's last Friday of the school year. She only has 4 days of school left...wow! Where does the time go? I am so looking forward to NOT getting up at 6:00 every weekday! Of course the Prince will see to it that I am up by 7:00 every day but I may be able to bribe him into climbing in with me and watching a Scooby Doo or something while I catch a few more winks. :) The boys and I got groceries this morning and they were pretty good. The Prince asked if we could get a car cart and my answer was "Absolutely not!" I know, Iknow, I am a mean Mommy, but when the Prince and the Knight sit together in a cart, bad things happen. Someone ends up getting hit, kicked, or pinched. I stand by my choice because we made it out of the grocery store alive! The Prince had one meltdown but it ended up being kind of positive, at least for me. The Knight dropped a box of crackers on the Prince. It was a box of Townhouse crackers, nothing too heavy. Well, the Prince took offense and burst into tears. I waited for him calm down and then asked him if it really hurt all that bad. He wiped his eyes, thought about it for a minute, and said "no". We just kept on shopping. When we were done shopping and heading out the door, I had a lady stop me and compliment me on how I handled the situation. Hey! I will take it! Usually I get glares and sideways glances from strangers. A compliment to a mom of a 2 year old boy and an almost 4 year old boy is worth its weight in gold! A banner day, indeed!

Today DadOf3 came home for lunch and it was so beautiful outside that we had to take the boys out to play. DadOf3 and the Prince practiced playing baseball for a while and then we moved on to the backyard so DadOf3 could eat his lunch. Prince was not happy and threw a little hissy fit. After some negotiations, he decided that being in the backyard was better than going up early to nap and all was well once again.

Tonight we headed out to one of our favorite restaurants for supper. The kids were pretty good, despite the fact that I had to take kids to the bathroom three times. Oh well - when you gotta go, you gotta go!

The Winning Answer!

DadOf3 called home tonight around 4:00 and asked me if I had started supper yet. Nope! Today was a busy day with GrandmaOf4 gone. I did a lot of room parent work and some (but not all) of the laundry. Apparently that was the winning answer! DadOf3 came home minutes later and took us all out to supper. Yippee! Ya gotta love that! We were going to skip going out tonight because we had done some special things while GrandmaOf4 was here like order pizza, order Chinese, and make Dream Dinners. I was ready to get out of the house though! It is lonely here during the day without GrandmaOf4. I was so happy to hear that GrandmaOf4 had made it home OK but I was really mad at the airline too. They just left her hanging. Grrrr! The kids were good on our Date Night. The Princess shared with me because she didn't want to eat pizza with the boys. The Prince and the Knight ate their pizza very nicely thank you very much. In the end the Princess was eating pizza topped with donated mushrooms (ick) from my pasta dish. She is a creative girl. Hey! At least they all ate, that doesn't happen during just any Date Night. Speaking of Date Nights. DadOf3 and MomOf3 have a big date night coming up. May 20th will be our 7th wedding anniversary. What does one give for the 7th wedding anniversary? A back scratcher? Ha ha! Just kidding. OK, wait a minute I need to google this. OK - I am back. Apparently the traditional 7th anniversary gift is something copper. Odd. The modern 7th anniversary gift is something made of wool or brass. Since we are already flirting with highs in the 90s, I am thinking the wool thing is out. Plus, wool is inherently itchy and we don't need to add any fuel to that fire! Time to get creative. :)

Cleaning and Carrying On...

Whew! Crazy day! After the excitement of yesterday, we stayed inside most of the day to get caught up on all of the housework we didn't do yesterday. The boys had fun entertaining themselves this morning. I bought some swim goggles to go into our store and the Knight wanted to put them on. I got a picture of him wearing them for all of the 5 seconds that lasted. The Prince was actually being nice to the Knight this morning and wanted to snuggle with him on the couch. It was one of those "awe" moments and since I had my camera ready, I got that one too. I tell ya, I am on a roll. The rest of the morning was pretty boring and consisted of my doing laundry and chasing the boys. DadOf3 came home for lunch so we headed outside to play. It was another gorgeous day - 80 degrees and sunny. While theboys napped, I worked on an end of the year gift for the Princess's teacher. I have been collecting pictures all year and I am putting them into a scrapbook for her. It does not take that much time and it seems like a good end of the year thing to do. After 2 hours of doing that, it was time to pick up the Princess at the bus stop. My oh my was she a crab cake this afternoon! For the first hour she was home, I could do nothing right, so I went back to working on the scrapbook until she decided to be nice again. I found a picture from Christmas that shows the look that she gave me this afternoon so I had to include it. The boys woke up around 4:00 and, after the initial craziness of getting snacks, the boys settled down to watch a show while The Princess wrote me a letter. I was very proud of her. She wrote it without any help form me. I could read exactly what she was saying. I am keeping this letter! Everything went pretty well until about 5 minutes before DadOf3 came home. Then, the Prince decided that it would be a good idea to drop a toy truck on the Knight's head. Ahhhh! After wiping a bloody lip and giving the Prince a time-out, I was more than ready for DadOf3 to come home. It was date night tonight so I didn't even have to cook supper. I am so glad that it is bedtime for the kids though. It just may be bedtime for me too!