Fun times!
>> Saturday, July 12, 2014
Once again it's after midnight before I'm posting! Luckily Elizabeth is feeling better and finally slept better too last night! This is how our nights have gone this week: Elizabeth sleeping in our bed next to a humidifier, Little Mark coming in halfway through the night to sleep and then usually just after Mark leaves to go to work, Annie climbs in and half the time falls back asleep or just goes downstairs to steal a piece of bread and comes in to my bed to eat it!
Sometimes Mark is still in bed or he's at the front window waving bye to his Daddy as he goes to work!
I love breakfasts with Mark. He sits quietly and eats all his food so happily. He is a classic morning person.
Today he was saying some really funny things. He likes the movie Turbo and today he was laying on the floor with a group of small fruits and he was talking to them saying ' ok people we have a lot of tomatoes to pick today'. Then when I started vacuuming he protected his 'snails' with his arm and yelled at them to ' tuck and roll, tuck and roll !!' He also told me I need to get him a motorcycle, very matter of factly. His conversations skills are so fun. He asked me a question that I started answering, then interrupted me to tell Elizabeth something, then when he was done he said ' ok Mom go ahead and finish.' All of the kids speech seems to have gone up a level the past couple weeks and it is seriously so fun!
This morning the girls were playing with Barbies and was being the mommy. Elizabeth asked her if they could say a prayer and Annie said, ya sure! I love seeing spiritual things working into their pretend play!
One of my goals today was to clean our super messy playroom. It was accomplished. But it left me way too hot and I had to sit in front of the fan for 10 minutes to cool down! I wish I had a higher tolerance for hot weather.... But I don't. Never have. And being pregnant makes my intolerance even worse!! I can only blame my Canadian blood for that.
On a different note, after venting my frustrations the other night of the house being a mess, Mark reminded me that the reason every room gets messy is because the children will seek out clean rooms to play in. Not because they are trying to mess with my sanity, but because they thrive in learning /playing in a clean, organized space. He's absolutely right! When I want to learn/concentrate/ play I want the same thing! So with that in mind I started cleaning the playroom and sure enough they flocked to it like a herd of starving pigeons! Somewhat to help me, but mostly to play and be in the same room as me. I had to stop myself many times when I wanted to say ' but I just picked that up and I just organized it'....instead I just smiled as I scrubbed who knows what off the table and realized this is why I'm sweating and cleaning, so my kids can learn through playing. It made me a much happier worker!
Tonight our neighbor came out to water his grass. As soon as he got it set up just right and then went inside , the kids ran to it and started playing!! My kids are like magnets to water! It made me miss Sonya terribly ( we had a great water fight with her last summer) but I'm glad that our new neighbors were kind and easy going and happy to let all the kids play!!
