One of the fun new things our family is enjoying for the first time ever is "the weekend." While most people eagerly anticipate Friday and the upcoming wekend, it has been one of our family's busiest times. However, with Jeremy's new job we are enjoying looking forward to this new opportunity for family time. Here are some fun things we've been up to:
A few weeks ago we went to have lunch with my parents on Sunday afternoon. The girls enjoyed checking out Uncle Kit's new motorcycle.
That evening we went to Nana's church so I could talk to the Jr. High girls. The girls had fun playing while I helped. My favorite story from the evening was when someone asked Grace if she was allowed to have pop. Grace said, "Whats pop?" The volunteer told me she decided to give them milk instead. (I wonder how much longer I will get away with that!)
Last weekend was one of my favorite weekends of the whole year- City Wide Garage Sales. My mom, mother-in-law and family friend Judy once again had lots of fun scouting out deals. I mostly bought clothes for little man. Some of my other favorite finds included:
-pink sparkly shoes for Grace
-lots of cute jeans for Faith (somehow we only had one pair of 3T jeans-guess Grace skipped that size)
-a side by side stroller for $20!
-a large floating shelf that is going to be transformed into the perfect mantle for my fireplace (more on that later)
-striped purple p.j.s for Faith that Grace has a matching pair in her size!
My dear husband choose to skip town and go do some work for his dad. He is earning extra money so we can purchase a family pool pass this summer. (So excited about that!) When he got home we used dollars from Gramy to take advantage of the blizzard deal at DQ. The girls wanted chocolate ice cream cones (their new love). As you can see Faith fully enjoyed hers! She licked every drop out of the cone, I don't think she knew you could eat it. And I'm still working on getting that ice cream out of her shirt.
Hope you are having a great weekend!
This week I heard Grace screaming during rest time. Upon investigation I discovered Faith had written on Grace's "purple" (her blanket) with a red crayon. After assuring her I could wash it I looked up to discover this:
Its kind of hard to see but that is red crayon all the way from the window to the changing table. Grace actually wrote part of her name on the wall and part on the furniture. And if you could see the artwork more clearly you can clearly see where Faith "drew" and then Grace took a turn. At least they shared the one crayon they found under their bed, right? (Okay, maybe not!) It took us (Oh, yes Grace & Faith were required to scrub the entire time) twenty minutes of scrubbing to remove it from the wall. Apparently this crayon wasn't so washable. But, don't worry purple easily came clean in a single visit to the washing machine. If only I could have stuck their wall in there. But, that wouldn't have been near as effective of a teaching moment, huh? Oh, the joys of little ones. I know I'm gonna miss this....someday.
