It sure is Monday!

We had a nice weekend with RR. We drove him back to college yesterday.

I am really dragging today. I have lots to do to get caught up after all of our weekend fun. Laundry, groceries, lunch with the kids, book fair at the school, keeping the Knight entertained.

It is going to be a busy day and I could sure use a nap!

I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving!!!!

Monday Madness!

Whew! What a day!

I had Conferences over at Princess's school this morning. They went well. Princess is learning a lot. She is a bit of a day dreamer (she gets that from me) so we need to work on focusing on the work at hand. We are also going to dive in to reading. We have 15 minutes of reading homework we are supposed to do every night but I am going to up that to 30 minutes at least. I want reading to become second nature for her.

After conferences, I came home and loaded all three kids up in Otis the van and we headed to Lifetime Fitness. Princess really wanted to see the playroom, as we call the childcare center at the gym. She absolutely loved it! That bodes well for my being able to work out this summer!

I took all three kids swimming after that. The outside pool is closed for the season, which is odd because it is still getting up to the 90s during the day. Oh well, the kids had fun. It was crowded. I guess other parents had the same idea that I had.

When we got home, it was lunch time and naps for the boys. Princess stayed up and read to me. She also had some homework that her teacher gave to me this morning. She got it all done so if DadOf3 wants to take the kids bike riding tonight, we can go.

I spent about 10 hours this weekend organizing parents for our big School Festival! I am so excited that my Mom, GrandmaOf4, is going to come to town for that! It is a fun little shindig, and I think she will enjoy seeing Princess's school up close and personal. Since I have to work during part of the festivities, DadOf3 will also be glad to have an extra pair of eyes watching the three kiddos.

Well, I'd better get some supper started! Bye for now!

Blog neglect!

My goodness but I have neglected my little blog lately. I still have lots of beach pictures to post. I am hoping to get to it today. I have to run to the grocery store this morning because we are out of everything. I am hoping to make it to Lifetime Fitness too. The Prince does not want to go so we will see how creative I can be in talking him into it.

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 of B and BZ's Visit!

On Monday we finally made it to the Wine Festival. Believe it or not, they actually had some fun things for kids too! Before we headed out though, Uncle B got a chance to fly our little helicopter. It was fun! The kids really love that thing. We thought maybe we had broken it the night before. BZ and I were flying it with the kids , the Prince and the Knight were both running for it, grabbed it, and broke off two chunks of the helicopter. DadOf3 was able to fix it though and the helicopter flew again! BZ cut my hair that morning and I was SO happy! She did a wonderful job and I think it looks cute. There is a picture of DadOf3 and me and my new haircut. What do you think? Uncle B did a great job of entertaining the Knight while BZ cut my hair. As we were driving to the Wine Fest, it started to pour down rain, Princess started singing her "Oh Mr. Sun, Sun, Golden Mr. Sun" song and just like that! it stopped raining and the sky turned blue! It was pretty amazing! The Wine Fest was a lot more kid friendly than I would have expected. They had a nice water fountain for the kids to jump in (OK, I think we made this "attraction" for ourselves but other kids were doing it!) They had inflatable jumpers, and they had face painting (arm painting). This woman was absolutley wonderful and I took her card for a future birthday part! It was a nice day outside with fun for everyone!

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.

Monday

We bypassed our normal laundry day to go meet friends at the park this morning and boy! am I glad we did! The Prince and the Knight had a great time. I had a nice time talking with my friend too! It was a very nice morning and we all walked/ran the trail. Both the Prince and the Knight are giving me good naps this afternoon. It is almost time to pick up Princess from the school so I will just post a couple of pictures now and hope to return later!

About that wishing for sleep thing...

Last night when I ended with "Here's to hoping we get better sleep tonight" I did not realize that I was jinxing us! Man oh man! The Knight woke up around 10:30 last night and the poor little kiddo did not go back to sleep all night. I sat with him on my lap from that point on. DadOf3 took the couch and we just tried to help him. We concluded that he was having stomach cramps because we gave him some tummy drops and that seems to help him for a while. He never did actually throw up so that is a good thing. The Prince came downstairs ready to start his day around 3:00AM- that was not going to happen! DadOf3 headed up to lay by him for a little while. Luckily I heard the alarm clock this morning in time to get Princess off to school. I woke her up at 6:30 instead of 6:00 so we didn't get reading time but she was up and ready when the bus came for her. Today is kind of a blur and takes me back to those newborn days when nights like last night were very common. I decided that I actually like my sleep! One thing I did get accomplished today was ordering a memorybook for Princess's teacher. I finally found a way to share it with my co-room parent. She looked at in and liked it. I hope Teacher does too! We tried another Dream Dinners tonight - I just threw it in the crock pot and let it go. It was declared OK but not the best. It sure was easy though, especially when I was running on fumes all day. Yawn! We did get baths tonight. I am hoping that will help the Princess, the Prince, and the Knight sleep better than last night. I am not going to jinx us tonight so I will just say "Happy Monday!" and "Good Night!"

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!