Wordless Wednesday - Spring Break Boating!

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Boating with my sister and her family!

It was great fun to have my sister and her family out on our boat!  We had a perfect day: 85 and sunny!

Princess!

DadOf4 braved the icy cold water - 61 degrees!

Prince and Cousin!

My sister and brother-in-law!

My sister and nephew!

Sleepy Duke!

Duke fell asleep - Knight was faking!

Knight and my sister

Showing off

Duke and my sister

DadOf4 and me

Time for my brother in law to go tubing!

The boys watching brother inlaw have a wild tube ride.  Their faces say it all!

4 cousins on a tube!

Someday, Duke will get a ride too!

Showing off!

Duke and me

Spring Break Day 1

Happy Spring Break! I always look at Spring Break as a sneak peek into how the summer is going to go. Since the dynamics of our family have changed dramatically in the last 2 1/2 months, I am paying close attention!
I took all four kiddos to the park yesterday. It was a gorgeous day here - 83 and sunny! Here is the Prince rocking on the pelican!

Here is the Prince rocking on the green frog!

Here is Princess on the green frog too. She is almost getting too tall to ride on these!

The blue tire swing is always a hit! It was all ours for about an hour, and then a daycare center showed up with about 50 kids and we had to share. :(

I am still trying to think of a blog name for our baby. I kind of like Duke. :) He was cashed out in the nice, fresh air! When we came home he napped for 3 hours too!

Princess was a good girl and pushed the Knight on the tire swing.

DadOf4 came and joined us for a picnic lunch in the park.

The Knight had a great time climbing this tree!

DadOf4 helped the Duke climb the tree like his biggest brother!

This may be one of my favorite pictures I have taken of the baby so far!

The Knight takes a Whale ride!

All in all, it was a really good day - translation: I didn't get too stressed out and we actually got out of the house and did something! Woo hoo!

Spring Break Day 2 - Chuck E. Cheese = Sensory OVERLOAD!

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Day 2 of Spring Break almost didn't get off the ground.

Princess has a temperature. It was only a little temperature, and she assured me that she was not sick enough to stay home from Chuck E. Cheese. (Although if it were a school day instead of Spring Break I am quite sure I would have had a different response....)

Since her temperature was only low grade (and because Chuck E. Cheese is most certainly germ infested with or without our help) we hopped in Otis the van at 9:15 and proceeded to Chuck's place.

The kids had a blast!

This is the only way I will do Chuck E. Cheese:

• Arrive as soon as we can in the morning (it opens at 9:00 so we were a half hour "late" arriving at 9:30),
  
• order pizza to be delivered at 11:00,
  
• play games until the pizza arrives,
  
• eat pizza,
  
• count our tickets,
  
• get our prizes and
  
• get the heck out of dodge before the place gets too crowded.

And it would have worked too if it weren't for those meddling kids (incompetent cashiers)! We were the very first people at the place. We ordered our pizza to be delivered at 11:00, as did everyone we came to Chuck's with. Their pizza arrived but ours didn't. (Try explaining that to 3 hungry kids who are watching their friends eat!).

At 11:05, I headed back to the counter to politely inquire about our pizza. They said they would check on it. About 3 minutes later, another worker came over and explained that it was not in yet but it would be out in about 5 minutes (yeah right!). I would have been more upset if he had not handed me two fist fulls of tokens to keep the young 'uns busy until the pizza came. The pizza finally did arrive at 11:30 (not quite the five minutes promised earlier) and the kids ate like champs! The Prince at 3 PIECES! Princess ate one and a half. The Knight ate 2 pieces. Wow! That is a lot of pizza eating for this crew. The last time the Prince ate 3 pieces of pizza we had left him and Princess with a neighbor to go buy Otis the Van - he was only 19 months old! (Another story...)

All in all it was a successful morning! The kids had fun and ate a good lunch. Plus I am off the hook for going to Chuck E. Cheese's for a long, long time!

Weekend Update and Spring Break Day 1!

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We had a pretty good weekend. DadOf3 put some light switches in the kids closets. It is so neat that he knows how to do all of these things! That took most of yesterday after lunch until about 8:00PM. The kids and I pretty much just hung out and played.

This morning we went to the gym! Last week was a terrible week for going to the gym. The Prince and the Knight were both sick so I didn't go at all. I was able to run on my treadmill on Monday but that is all. I am back on track this week though! Since it is Spring Break down here, I took all three kids to the playroom this morning. Then I ran and picked them up to go swimming. We met one of Princess's friends at the pool, and all 4 kids had a great time. We got home around 1:30 and the kids were starving so I made some waffles, quick and easy! They are all sleeping now which is a good thing. My little Knight woke up at 4:00 in the morning and thought it was time to get up. Isn't it supposed to be the other way around after Springing Forward??? Shouldn't he be sleeping later? In any event, his schedule is messed up and we kind of slept from 4-8AM.

I think it has been a good first day of Spring Break!!