September 24th-30th

(9/24) Work day for Dad & me and Kathy had the kids.  D has mastered the doors at my house, and let himself out of the room and into the bathroom numerous times while I was reading to them.  I dread moving them to big boy beds!


(9/25) Sarah met us at Toddler Story Time at the Library this morning.  It was insane... I think there were about 30 toddlers plus their parents crammed in one room.  It was total chaos, and the librarian gave up after quickly reading two stories and singing a song.  I let the boys do what they wanted, and just kept an eye on them to make sure they weren't stealing things from other people's strollers.  J helped himself to someone else's cookies the last time we came.  LOL!  After the toys came out, the boys finally were able to sit down. After story time, I didn't feel like going home, so we stopped at the park.  Everything was wet, but we had rain coats and dry clothes at home.  The boys played for a while and then we headed home for lunch and a nap.  I woke the boys so we could go get C from school.  He had a dentist appointment today.  We made a quick stop at Starbucks (of course) and got some juice boxes to go and headed over.  I kept the boys busy with some Sid the Science Kid on my iPod and the staff at the dentist brought out balloons, which were so much fun!  


(9/26) Work day for me, and Dad had the boys.  I got home in time to have dinner with the family and put the littles to bed before scurrying out the door for Curriculum Night.  I love C's teacher!  She is so organized and I'm looking forward to volunteering in C's class again soon!  She said C is so enthusiastic and as a parent, that is wonderful to hear.  He has been so happy lately ~ I'm glad!


(9/27) TGIF!  Work day for Dad & me and Kathy had the boys.  Kathy said J came right in, rejected lunch, and wanted to go to sleep. He slept for hours, and she finally had to wake him up.  Guess he needed it!  Evenings always fly by too fast at home and before I knew it, it was bedtime. 


(9/28) Whoops - discovered we had left the stroller at Kathy's yesterday, and today we have hockey.  This ought to be fun!  It actually wasn't too bad.  The boys sat on the bench while I helped C get dressed, and then ran the stairs, and had lunch while C was practicing.  The boys are more than adept at opening doors, and both of them managed to slip outside at different points.  Fortunately, I was right there for both and was able to grab them.  But yeah, I'm definitely bringing the stroller for next time!  They were *exhausted* when we got home and slept for over 3 hours.  C was invited for a sleepover at Jordan's, so it was just the littles and me for the evening.  It was so quiet, other than the monitor periodically saying "Thank you!"   D is a funny boy.


(9/29) Dad had the littles and I had a run up north in the morning.  I came home to chattering boys that had just woken from their nap.  Dad left to run some errands and fetch the big boy, and then came home and made us a very yummy dinner.  The littles and I holed up upstairs to stay out of Dad's hair, and they had a ball playing in the closet and closing the door on each other. D is going to be a tiiiiired boy tomorrow, since he was up howling at the moon (or making "oooooooh" noises) until well after 9pm tonight. 


(9/30) Monday... back to the grind.  Boys are with their dad and I am at work.  I am looking forward to having the rest of this week off. No plans as of yet, but I'm sure we'll think of something.