A nice, normal day!

We have had a nice, normal day today. And that feels awesome! With all the traveling we have done this month, it felt really good to take the kids to the park this morning and then get groceries.

Yes, it was a little too much to do in one day and the kids made me pay for it at the grocery store, but it was good for all of us. Our time at the park is not, shall I say, a walk in the park. My kids play hard. They love the monkey bars (the Prince can do them now! Princess has been able to do them for 2 year), walking/running the trails, climbing the jungle gyms, and swinging. They play hard at the park and I encourage them to do so. We all need exercise.

Next week my plan is to get back to the gym so I can get some walking in while they play in the playroom and then let them swim. That is so good for us. Everyone comes home tired and happy. Tomorrow we are supposed to get some rain so I may take my trio to a free movie. They love going and it makes for a pretty easy morning for me.

Busy Wednesday!

I updated my Lifetime Fitness Goals for this week.

It has been a busy day here in FamilyOfFiveLand! I took the boys to the park this morning. It was a gorgeous morning and the boys had fun! Then we headed on over to Lifetime Fitness where I got my workout in and took the boys swimming. They had a blast and I am beat! Now it is time to get some more laundry done and have some lunch!

Princess had her Bridging Ceremony from Daisies to Brownies yesterday afternoon. I will post some of those pictures in a bit!

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!

Birthday Party in the Park

This was a very busy Wednesday! The boys and I had a birthday party to attend this morning! MomOf2Boys had a birthday party for her oldest at Digger Park. MomOf2Boys is one of my dearest friends here down south so I was most happy to attend! We could only stay for 45 minutes because Princess had her end of year picnic at school starting at 10:45 and we had to pick up DadOf3. Here are some pictures from the park this morning!

Park Day

This has been a great day. It is Wednesday and we met some friends at the park for a couple of hours. Let me tell you, the Prince and the Knight are wiped out! We walked them all around the park path. Towards the end the Prince was telling me that it was time to go home and the Knight was just sitting in the rocks playing. This 2 year old does not sit! Ha ha! It was a good day. I hope they take good naps now, but not too good of naps. The last two days the Prince has slept so hard and so long that he has wet his pants and then didn't even wake up. I woke him up around 4:15 yesterday afternoon and he was wet and sleeping. Now that is a sound sleeper. I met MomOf2Boys at the park. She is a good friend and mother. I met her here in the neighborhood and then moreso through MOPS (Mother's of Pre-Schoolers) and she has been a wonderful influence on my life ever since. We call this particular park "Digger Park" because it has a couple of places for the boys to sit and operate a little digging shovel. The Prince LOVES it and the first few times he did not want to share at ALL. He is a little better about sharing now. We were going to take Cousin to the park when he was here but we ran out of time. My mom (GrandmaOf4) is arriving at the end of this month for a week! I think we will take her to this park if the weather is nice. They are getting SNOW in Iowa today. Yikes!