Monday Update!

Wow! We have had a busy Monday so far. We put Princess on the school bus bright and early as usual. After the boys got up and ate breakfast, we headed to the grocery store. As you know from my past blogging (whining?) grocery shopping with a 2 year old and a 4 year old can be hit or miss. Fortunately, today went very well. We got all of our stuff in record time and no one got hit, kicked, or burst into tears. That spells SUCCESS in my book! :) Today is also Big Laundry Day - I know! We live an exciting life! Ha ha! I try to get every piece of laundry through the wash and put away on Mondays and Thursdays. This makes for a lot less mess around the house. I actually like laundry day because I can see the big pile of laundry at the beginning of the day dwindle down to nothing by the end of the day. (Yes, I am warped!)

Anyway - Happy Monday!

Monday Madness - Laundry and Rain

I am SO glad that our activity for tomorrow is going to a free movie at the theater. Rain or shine, we will be getting out of the house!

Today was Big Laundry Day. That meant a pretty dull day for the kids because I was not too creative. Princess did not nap today. I let her watch a movie because I was dragging.

DadOf3 and I woke up last night to a "beep, beep", pause for about 15 seconds, "beep, beep", repeat. One of us had left the cordless phone upstairs. Apparently when it is left off of its charger for long enough, it starts beeping. The monitor in the Knight's room brought this lovely beeping downstairs to us. Not to mention, it woke up the Knight. This all happened around 4:00 AM and I could not for the life of me get back to sleep.

Monday

It sure is Monday around here! I think we are all dragging a bit after fighting off colds and stomach bugs last week. I sure didn't want to get up at 6:00 when the Prince came down for breakfast. That is so early! Sure we do it during the school year but this is summer vacation time now!!

Monday is laundry day here in FamilyOf5Land, and the kids did a good job of entertaining themselves while I got 6 loads of laundry through. It is amazing how this stuff accumulates!

They were all three playing on the computer at one point too. It is fun to see how quickly they pick up the new computer games at nickjr.com.

Princess got all dressed up and announced that she and the Prince will be performing a show for Daddy's birthday! I cannot wait to see what they come up with. I will have the camcorder ready!

Last Monday of the School Year

Today was the last Monday of the school year. The school year is winding down for the Princess. The boys and I did regular Monday stuff like doing laundry and cleaning bathrooms. We are getting ready for some visitors this weekend! DadOf3's little brother and his girlfriend are coming to town!! We cannot wait! The Princess is already decorating her room for them! 3 more days of school and our schedule will be open open open! I am already trying to work out a new schedule for summer so we don't waste our time. I think Monday, Wednesday, and Friday will be park mornings. We will get outside before it gets too hot. This will either be at a park or out in our backyard. (Tuesday will be grocery day - wish me luck taking 3 kids!) Thursday will be Library day. The Princess went to her school library every Thursday during the school year so we will keep that. Plans will change but if I have an overall vision for the summer, we will get more play time in. If we don't get outside before 10:00 during the summer, it gets too hot to do anything. Here are some pictures from after school on Monday.

Bubba-Napping 101

Today was a drama day. We are always busy on Mondays doing not-so-fun stuff (if you are 3 1/2 or 2 years old). It is laundry day/bathroom cleaning day once again and I managed to get both the Prince's and the Knight's bubbas and throw them in the wash. The Knight was devastated, but his bubba was stinky! I feel mean, but Bubba was only out of commision for a little over an hour. The Knight and his Bubba were reunited after that and all was right with the world. We had a nice Monday morning. The Princess woke up very nicely and was ready to go back to school. She has had a sub for a month because her teacher had an operation. Teacher is back at school today and all is right with the Princess's world. The Prince didn't like me washing his Bubba either but he got to put the soap into the washing machine and throw his Bubba into the dryer so he was OK with it. Lots to do today and not much time to write. I will add some pictures of the boys and their Bubbas post Bubba-bath!

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!

Laundry Day Thursday

I was telling DadOf3 last night that I finally feel like I have conquered laundry. I do it every Monday and Thursday until all of the dirty clothes are washed, dried and put away. At least twice a week the laundry is completely done...until everyone goes to bed and puts on jammies. Oh well! We do the best we can. The Princess came home as a Super Star again from school. I really should be paying more attention to this because this kid knows how to work the system! She has been a Super Star every day for the last two weeks. - at least. (Like I said, I should be paying more attention!) I think they get Super Star by cleaning up after themselves and others or if they are a big help to the teacher.

I am actaully going to voluneer at the school tomorrow. The Kindergarteners are having their Ladybug Picnic. It is based on a book and a classic Seasame Street song. I am going to attempt to add this song to my blog. They decorated wings this week and are supposed to wear red, white, and black to school tomorrow. I am trying to rack my brain to figure out what she is going to wear. She wore what would have been perfect yesterday: a pretty red shirt with a butterfly on it that GrandmaOf4 gave the Princess for Christmas. Since I made the rule at the beginning of the year that we cannot wear the same outfit twice in the same week, I'd better come up with something else quick.

Tonight is Date Night! I am excited to get out of the house even though I have been out a lot this week. On Monday I went to Reign Over Me with MomOf2Boys. It was a lot of fun. Last night I took the Princess to Dream Dinners. We had a lot of fun and made Chicken Parmesan. It didn't take very long at all and we got to taste test a Cherry Cobbler (YUM!) and Stuffed Shells (also yummy). When we do a preview like this, we actually get to make a free meel to take home. My Math Major/Computer Science Major husband has taught me well. It would have cost about $27 to buy the 6 servings of what I made last night. I could make it myself for under 10. It would be nice for working parents because it cuts out going to the grocery store and you have lots of nice meals in your freezer. I cannot justify it while I am at home. The Princess and I had fun taste testing though! We were even back in time for 8:00 bedtime!

Laundry Day

Today, the Prince, the Knight and I concentrated on getting the laundry done. Or I should say that I concentrated on getting the laundry done and the Prince and the Knight did their best to unfold anything and everything that even remotely looked like it had been folded. It is was a trying task, but we got it done. The Princess had pictures today at school. They take a group picture of her class, stick it on a banner, and charge $20 for it. Yes, I am a sucker for pictures. It was nice because the Princess's teacher, who has been out for two weeks after having surgury, managed to be there for the picture. It will be nice to have her in the Princess's memory book. This has been a day where I have been running around like a chicken with its head cut off. From one thing to the next trying to keep everything straigtened to no avail. Luckily it is date night and DadOf3 is going to take us all out to eat tonight. Good thing because I don't feel like cooking.

The Prince and the Knight

After 2 hours, the laundry that should have been done yesterday is now done. I have to say that the Prince and the Knight helped me out with this little task. Even though the Prince got up at 6:00AM and the Knight got up at 7:00AM, they still entertained each other long enough for me to get something done. It always feels strange to have all of the laundry done. I may have to wash sheets or towels again to feel better! The Prince, the Knight, the Princess, and I are starting on our rewards chart I am implementing this summer. I admit it, I stole the idea from Princess's Kindergarten teacher. I think I talked about it before. The categories are SUPER STAR, STAR, OOPS, and CHILL OUT. At the Princess's suggestion, we added a SUPER DUPER STAR. For the remainder of the school year, I told Morgan that if she comes home from school as a SUPER STAR, she can jump up to SUPER STAR on our chart too. Everyone starts the day on STAR. I am going to do my best to be consistant with this. I am going to braindump some rules later. DadOf3 is going to be home any minute to relieve me so I can head to a doctor's appointment. Yea...