Another weekend gone by

Now aren't those faces cute?

I couldn't resist snapping a shot after church today while they were still wearing the headbands they colored in nursery today. They were learning about eyes in case you're wondering what's on the paper.

Anyway, this weekend was a fun one. Funner than the last few at least. On Friday night Scott and I played Trivial Pursuit for the first time in a long time. To make the game a little more interesting I decided we needed to have a little incentive for winning. Since sleep is a precious commodity around our house, we decided that the winner got to sleep in on Saturday. Now with those kind of stakes, there's no way I was gonna let Scott win. So, in spite of a slow start on my part (and thanks to Scott being stuck on his last pie piece for like 20 minutes) I managed to beat Scott -- and with a sports question to boot! Needless to say Saturday morning was a dream. I slept all the way in to NINE O'CLOCK. Now to those of you without little children, that may not seem very late, but to me it felt like I had slept in till noon. And Scott had even cleaned up the house for me while I slept! What a great start to a weekend, right?

We finally let Ethan talk us into going to the Splash Pool right next to the park. The pool opened the week before Memorial Day, and every day since its been opened all Ethan wants to do is go to the "water park." And since we go to the park quite a bit, its been pretty pitiful watching Ethan stand by the fence watching all the other kids having fun playing at the Splash Pool. So on Saturday, after naptime, we finally sucked it up (and in) and donned our swimsuits and went to the "water park."

Now, the irony was that even though Friday was BLAZING hot, Saturday was only moderately hot(88), overcast, and a little breezy. The result was that we were FREEZING and I hated it the whole time we were there (about an hour and a half). Not to mention that the only swimsuit I have right now is a maternity one -- leftover from the summer I was pregnant with Grace -- and when it gets wet, the fabric totally stretches out practically to my knees AND when I'm in the water, the fabric floats up and I feel like I'm flashing the whole underwater world. (Its times like this that I feel like such a good mom -- making my kids happy at my expense).

Meanwhile Ethan loves to play WITH water, but he DOES NOT like to be IN the water. So, he spent the whole time up on the play structure turning all the wheels and gizmos that made water shoot out from all different kinds of pipes, spray out water, and fill up buckets and other gadgets. Then there's Grace whose like a little fish and doesn't know the meaning of the word caution. She would've dived right into the water if one of wasn't there to make sure she didn't drown.


Needless to say, I will NOT be attempting a solo trip to the Splash Pool with the kids. I was finally able to pry Grace out of the grips of the alluring water and bring her to the side of the pool to wrap her up and warm her (her lips were literally blue and her little body was shivering convulsively yet she still protested vigorously when being taken from the pool). Luckily snacks usually do wonders in distracting her from whatever she's throwing fits about. Five minutes later Scott was able to do the same with Ethan -- who was also shivering convulsively yet protesting with all the persistence and determination that makes him our Ethan. We finally convinced him it was time to go (okay, okay we outright lied to him and told him the water park was closing) and we were on our merry way home. All in all it was a successful outing. Ethan talked about it for the rest of the evening and all day today saying "remember the water park, mom?" "that was fun, huh, mom?" So, like I said before. Its times like this that I feel like a really good mom.




Now, the biggest news around our house right now is the MacBookthat Scott bought on Saturday at noon and managed to wait all the way until 7 PM to surprise me with (for those of you who don't know, neither Scott nor I are good with surprises, so 7 hours is pretty remarkable!). Scott has to have a laptop for business school, and after researching all different kinds, he decided to get this one (and I'm really glad because this is the one I really wanted too). We already have a Mac for our home computer, and we figured it would be good to keep up the solidarity. Once you go Mac, you don't go back. Or at least I don't. Anyway, its pretty awesome and I'm looking forward to playing around with it this week and figuring out all the stuff it can do. I figure once school starts Scott can have it full-time. But for right now, I'm gonna be burning some DVDs, baby!

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So, that was our weekend -- sorry for the play by play!