What happens when you combine a free service day ticket/over 100 emails with friends/and a built in babysitter? You get 2 great days at Disneyland with family and friends.
The kids ask for the "world" "mickey" and "goofy" songs every time we're in the car...guess who was excited to go to DL?
Ryan and his dad decided that we need to be a "fishing family". So off they went. I'm not sure what they did, and they didn't catch any fish, but the report I got was about "crickets in a cup" and "horses walking in the water". Sounds like a success to me...
I know that there is probably stuff I should have blogged about, but I haven't felt like it. But here are two stories about Adam that made me smile today.
1. You should know that he is STILL obsessed with tires. He talks about our "broken tire" all the time. But today it was brought to a new level as he bent down under our SUV. All of a sudden he exclaimed, "tire!" since he discovered our spare tire. He made me sit down on the sidewalk with him as he looked and pointed and talked all about it. Now every time we pass a vehicle, he bends down to check to see if it has a spare "tire"!
2. The kids haven't been the greatest about eating what's for dinner so tonight I told them that if they ate all their dinner bites they could have some juice. They both started chomping away until Adam had a slow down and insisted that I eat his last 2 bites (trust me-I played many games to get him to eat them himself). I relented and ate the bites. As soon as I ate the last one he looked down at his plate and exclaimed, "All Gone!Juice?"
Rachel's Special Day was Wednesday, the 1st. I'm sorry to say it was not even with Adam's in terms of documentation, or fun, but they'll have to get used to it right?
We had chocolate cheerios for breakfast, which she was soo excited about. I tried to get her to say it on video, but that didn't work of course.
We went to the park for playgroup and it's finally not unbearably hot! (don't get me wrong--it's still plenty hot). Apparently she has decided that she needs to dangle from every place she can.
And...she has conquered her fear of swinging (mostly)...
We got some more stuff from our neighbors, so Rachel got to open those as her "presents". She now sleeps with her xylophone. Adam demanded a turn though so she had to settle for the Jack in the Box kids' meal prize...
Good thing she doesn't know the difference. The kids' also inherited a kitchen set from our good friend. I haven't taken any pictures of it yet, but we considered this her big present and we're grateful to have it for awhile. Mostly because it fit into their room without too much trouble. Always a plus.
And we finished their "growth chart". Rache has Adam beat by about 2 mm. Although it could be an error in measuring :). They LOVED putting their hands on the wall and the next morning the first thing I heard Rachel say was, "Rachie-hand!"
There's not much to do in Vegas that's cheap and for kids so we headed to the mall. Despite a not so fun See's Candy line, it was great! We went to the Toy Store and managed to get out of there without any complaints or purchases. Same with the pet store.
It's hard to do anything special these days because A and R are never far apart. And even though it's frustrating sometimes that I don't have enough hands or enough patience, I wouldn't have it any other way!
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