Rest & Relaxation

I'm not sure how much rest & relaxation you can get with two toddlers, but this weekend was as close as I'm going to get. Really, who am I kidding . . . the fact that I didn't have to work for two FULL days was the best rest & relaxation I could ask for! It was AWESOME!!

We had dinner with some friends of ours on Saturday night. It was the first time we had gone out together "childless" in a LONG time . . . so long I can't even remember if I'm being honest. So we were joking around about how strange it was that we could actually carry on a conversation with each other without being interrupted with countless questions, breaking up of fights and easing crying little ones. During said un-interrupted conversation the question was posed as to what filled our time before we had kids???

Hmmm . . . an interesting thought . . . . what did I do with the many hours in my day when I had no children??? The concept now seems so foreign to me that I'm thinking I must have been incredibly lazy and watched a lot of TV and took a lot of naps because I know I didn't cook, I didn't have this blog to fill my time, I certainly wasn't crafty. What the heck did I do???

Ok - so I may not be able to tell you what I used to do . . . but I can certainly tell you what I did do yesterday . . .

I watched Bella dump an entire container of over 100 crayons on the floor. When I asked her why she dumped them she said she was looking for a marble. Sure . . . I often find marbles hidden in the crayon container . . . perfect reason . . . and then because I was too lazy to pick them up - in my defense we were coloring with them . . . I further watched her sit, walk on, and crack said crayons.

I discovered that Kadin has a new word in his vocabulary . . . awesome!!! Can't imagine where he learned that from - wink, wink . . . but I noticed him using it multiple times yesterday. When I asked him where he learned that word from . . . he right away said "I don't know" like I just caught him saying the f-word.

Oh - Speaking of the f-word . . . . Bella was being a little . . . ummm . . . difficult . . . and Brian called her an f-stain under his breath. Kadin came into the kitchen laughing and saying "Daddy just called Bella an f-stain!" How do you not just crack up at that . . . . oh, I know . . . the thought of your four-year-old calling his very religious anti-profanity babysitter that . . . that's how. I guess it wasn't so "under his breath" after all.

My kids LOVE this . . . and they LOVE to sing it . . . AND for Christmas, they made Santa's that sing this . . . which my kids discovered on clearance at Wal-Mart and decided they were going to keep pushing ALL the buttons on ALL the Santa's so they could hear ALL of them play at the same time. It was great . . .




Why would Santa even sing that??? I guess that's why they were on clearance.

Kadin has a couple of dot-to-dot and maze books. He really loves doing mazes and he's really good at it. So during our marathon coloring session I got out these maze and dot-to-dot books because I thought Kadin would enjoy doing them. Well, apparently his maze book came with a page of little stickers . . . which it just so happened that at Wal-mart earlier in the day (please see above description of Wal-mart visit) Bella kept begging for - of all things - stickers. So she saw these stickers and went nuts!

Now, Kadin is pretty good at sharing. He will share with Bella most of the time. So Bella asks for two stickers - pink ones - and he politely gives them to her. Two minutes later she looses one . . . asks for another sticker . . . Kadin hands over another one - this time a rainbow with a cloud. But - it doesn't stop there . . . Bella is like a drug addict that just needs one more fix and when Kadin won't give her anymore stickers . . . she does the unthinkable . . . . . . . she waits until he is distracted playing tic-tac-toe with Mom and then she does it . . . . . . she swipes that maze book and sits in the corner happily pulling off little stickers to her hearts content and sticking them all over her legs.

I won't tell you about the fight that ensued once Kadin discovered half his stickers gone . . .

So, that's what my day was like yesterday . . . just a typical day with the kids, hanging out in the house keeping warm . . . it was AWESOME!! wink, wink