A Day in The Life, Spring 2015 Edition
- 7:15 AM: Awake and laughing, playing in their bedroom in our Steamboat condo (temporary housing until our town home is ready)
- 7:30: Hugs and snuggles with Mommy, followed by loading up the gondola in our living room (the big bean bag) with skis (throw pillows). "Let's go skiing!" the kids say
- 7:45: Sesame Street with Daddy (brought to you by the letter M), and Daddy using scissors to turn a Kleenex box into A) a boat and B) a car wash for hot wheels per the kids' request. Mommy works
- 8:20: Eggs, turkey sausage, fresh pineapple prepared by Mommy for breakfast
- 8:30: Calliou
- 9:00: Maps made with pens and construction paper
- 9:15: Dressed. Clothes purposely put on backwards by the kids. Luke: jeans and a Batman T-shirt, Sis: Hot pink sundress and red bloomers
- 9:30: Kids play while Mommy does dishes, laundry, unpacks from Junction, showers, etc.
- 10:30: Daddy's Hotel to bring him his wallet which he forgot and for Mommy to sign some stuff. Kids also had their first time playing in the little creek out front. They LOVED it. Temper tantrum on Sis's part when it was time to leave
- 11:30: Interior design shop for blind and carpet samples (neither of which was ready)
- 11:45: Library for some new books (Sis was sad last night that there were no bedtime stories in the house)
- 12:00: Turkey sandwiches, popcorn, water eaten on the grass beside the library. Playground time (mostly swings). Some climbing on the statues and throwing dandelions into the creek
- 1:15-3:00: "Naps," which really involved the kids playing in their room (naked...why?) and Mommy doing laundry/dishes/working
- 3:00: Mommy picking up all the clothes the kids threw on the floor from their dresser drawers during "naptime." Annoyed lecture from Mommy. Help getting re-dressed
- 3:15: Corn chips, swiss cheese, red pepper slices, milk for snack
- 3:45: 1/2 hour of Caillou so Mommy can get a little work done (+ more laundry, another round of kitchen clean-up)
- 3:15: Dress Luke AGAIN, laundry, make beds, pick up, do pigtails for Sis and Lambekins, get shoes on everyone
- 4:30: Grocery store
- 5:30: Daddy's home! And so are we. Story hour with Daddy (new library books) while Mommy makes dinner
- 6:00: Hamburgers with cheese, veggies (beets, yellow peppers, carrots), sweet potato chips and special treats (carrot cake cupcakes)
- 6:30: A rambunctious game of "Woah!" made up by Sis, where she and Luke spin around as fast as they can and then flop into the beanbag saying "Woooah!" and then, "I'm OK!"
- 6:40: Bath and shampoo, PJs, tooth brushing, etc. Daddy vacuums
- 7:00: Bob the Builder with Daddy
- 7:30: Books, back scratchies, songs (Rocky Mountain High for both kids), hugs, tuck in with Mommy. Fussing and crying.
- 8:00: Asleep
- Whew. And Mommy's still got several hours of work ahead of her...
Kid Cuteness, May 18, 2015
Zo, when I told her it was time to leave the bike park (holding her hand out in the "stop" gesture): "NO!!!! NEVER!!!!"
Zo, talking about what we might see on our drive to Steamboat: "Maybe we'll see a giraffe!"
Me: "You guys are awesome!"
Zo: "Yes we are!"
Luke, not coming to the dinner table: "I'm lolly-gagging!"
Luke, hanging upside-down at the playground: "Look at me! I'm an upside-down sloth!"
Zo, referring to her and Luke as baby kitties: "The baby kitties are FREAKING OUT!!!" (There are a variety of animals they impersonate every day...yesterday from Luke it was, "Hi, mommy humpback whale. Baby humpback whale wants to snuggle.")
Zo: "I have a thorn in my paw." (Said with crayons wedged between her fingers.)
Me: "Oooh...that's more than one thorn in there...how many are there?"
Zo: "One, two, three, LOTS!"
Luke, driving by Rabbit Ears Motel, which has a great pink neon bunny sign out front: "I bet the Easter Bunny flies in with his helicopter and stays at the Bunny Ears Motel!"
Daddy, at bedtime: "I'm going to count down from five, after which you kids better be in bed. Otherwise the tickle monster is coming. Five, four..."
Upon which Zo runs to my arms and hops into them and says, "Go Mommy! Hurry! Take me to bed! Hurry, hurry hurry!"
(I was laughing so hard there was no way I could walk her to their room...)
XO
Sunday Adventure
Daddy wasn't feeling terrific this morning, so after fixing the kids eggs and pineapple and bagels with cream cheese for breakfast, and reading eight library books to them on the top bunk, I took them out for a little adventure.
It had snowed overnight but the snow was pretty much gone by the time we got out. We parked at Mt. Werner Road and went west all the way to the botanical gardens, the river is high and there were puddles EVERYWHERE. And fishermen everywhere, one of whom said to me, "You've got a fisherman in that boy, he found the deepest [puddle] water and went for it." Needless to say, by the time we got back to the car the kids were wet, but what troopers they were, riding their bikes the whole way even with wet feet and jeans (and it wasn't the warmest).
Lovely morning...
