Yesterday was the most amazingly gorgeous day! As soon as church and Sunday School were over, we decided there was no way we were going back inside a building for the rest of the day. And apparently we meant literally, because we stayed locked out of our house until 6:30 p.m. when we tracked down Davis and he was able to break in. But before that... we headed to the playground, where Sophia practiced riding her bike, we watched soccer drills, and we met the cutest little puppy. Then things got a little crazy. First we went to Sonic, but then Amelia fell down and spilled her fruit slush and scraped her knee and hands. Then Sophia dropped her cherry limeade.
We decided to go walk across the river on a big pedestrian bridge called the Big Dam Bridge. Davis and I have walked across it at night, which is awesome, but we'd never taken the kids. Well, we were about 1/4 of the way up the bridge when two police officers passed us. There were lots of other people walking past them, so we didn't think anything of it. I try to make a point of being friendly with police officers when the girls are around, because I have told them if they are ever in trouble the police can help them. Anyway, I said "hi Officer!" and he said hi and then "ma'am just stay here and don't go any further, okay?" He wasn't telling anyone else to stay put, but we did (I thought maybe there was someone up there who wanted to jump or something, and he didn't want the kids to see?) So we stayed put for about 15 minutes until they came back down. Turns out they were from the bomb squad and someone abandoned a cooler on the bridge. The lesson here is: always be nice to the police, so they don't let you walk onto a bridge that might blow up at any minute!
We proceeded to the top of the bridge, which was great - we saw turtles swimming in the river and boats being moved through the lock. But then Amelia fell down and scraped her other knee and I had to carry her the rest of the way while pushing the stroller. Then we went home and discovered the locked out house thing. Our Sunday Night Dinner was pizza eaten in the car while we waited for Davis to come home!
I didn't get any pictures from the day, I was just trying to enjoy it, crazy as it was.
I got a great idea from my friend Karla, and it's been working like a charm. We have a reward system to try to get the girls to be better about picking up after themselves - if they do a good job cleaning up, they get a bowling pin. Once they both have ten pins, we're going bowling. This is really fancy - a piece of construction paper cut in half with their names written on it
When we want to work on a particular behavior, we'll do this and let the kids earn some fun activity. Thanks, Karla!
Mondays are Family Night at our house, which means we have something fun for dinner (make your own pizzas or something) and talk about all the stuff going on that week and other family topics that need to be discussed. It feels a little like a business meeting when I get the calendar off the wall! But after dinner we all play games or do a craft or go for a walk or something. Tonight we did the funnest thing - I pasted pictures of animals on paper and cut them out into little cards, which I put into a big bowl. One person picked a card out of the bowl (no peeking) and then had to act like that animal without making any sounds, and the rest of us had to guess what kind of animal they were. We pretty much laughed the whole time!
No pictures from that one, but our last Family Night we painted pictures of dragons - none of had looked at any pictures of dragons recently, so we had no idea what we were doing!
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You are making such wonderful memories for your children.
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