Friday night, some friends of ours invited us over for a last hurrah before we move. We had a game night with lots of yummy snacks and it was so much fun that it helped us in letting the terrible babysitting slide. Haha. While we were gaming it up, Ethan was doing his own gaming (on the computer) while Sophie and the three youngers were watching a movie for Movie Night. According to my inside source (aka Sophie), Ethan didn't get off the computer until 9:15 and then just moved from the iMac in computer room to his Chromebook on the family room stairs. Popcorn was the snack of the evening, and since Sophie is allergic to dairy, we always use sunflower oil to flavor it rather than butter. Let's just say that they tend to be a little heavy-handed with the oil when I'm not around to help them, and there was evidence of that all over the counters, couches, carpet, and Isaac's hair -- apparently he dumped the not-so-empty popcorn bowl on top of his head to make a "hat." Those kids!
According to Sophie, Alex and Jane fell asleep on the couch and she's the one who had to wake them up and move them upstairs, and by the time we got home, the only ones still awake were 1.0 and 2.0 (aka Ethan and Isaac). After cleaning up as much of the mess as we could, we got Isaac to bed and then crashed ourselves.
(Pictures really do not do justice to the amount of oil in his hair.)
Saturday was full of its own antics, thanks to Grace who had been gone all day at the amusement park with a friend from school. Before those antics creeped up, however, we gave Ethan a chance to redeem himself with babysitting again that night (this time with all three younger ones asleep before we left for a movie) and he did a MUCH better job even with being pulled into the drama of the night. You see, 10 minutes into our movie, we got a phone call and then a text from Ethan informing us that the mother of Grace's friend had just come by the house to see if we had heard anything from them. The plan was for us to pick them up at 10 when the park closed, and even though Grace texted me around 3 saying that her phone was at 1%, she was quick to text me from two different friends' phones to let me know where I could get ahold of her. Meanwhile, Grace's friend was supposed to be checking in with her mom every hour, and when this mom came over to the house, Ethan said she was freaking out because she hadn't heard from the girls in over 3 hours. The rest of the movie was a blur of me trying to text anyone I could think of who might have kids at the amusement park who would be with them so that we could track them down, to no avail. Since we knew Grace's phone was dead -- and assumed her friend's phone was, too -- Scott was not too worried and figured we'd follow the plan and just go and pick them up at 10 as planned. I was slightly more panicky, and as we got out of the movie and raced to the Park, I started making phone calls and discovered that the other parents were already there with park security trying to track them down.
We had literally just parked and were walking up to the entrance when I got a text from Grace -- completely oblivious to everything that had transpired over the last hour and half -- asking where we were and that they were hanging out in the Starbucks inside the Park while their phones were charging. Say what??? Oh Grace. She didn't even believe me when I told her that security had been looking for them and that we were all worried. By the time we got through the entrance, the girls were with the other parents and the security officer was giving them a pretty stern talking to about responsibility and checking in with parents and following the plans that have been set, etc. In the future, I think both girls will be a little more on top of taking a time out to charge phones if that's what needs to be done.
Anyway, it was quite the weekend! Hahaha. Never a dull moment around here. It's hard to believe that our countdown to the move is at the less-than-one-month mark. School is out on May 18th, and May 19th we'll be heading on out. Now we've just got to get through state testing this week, my baby brother's wedding next week (!), end of year projects and teacher appreciation the week after that, and then one more week and we're done. I feel like we've been caught up in a whirlwind since February and I'm finally starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel. My only hope is that once we get into that light, the whirlwind will leave us alone for a little bit...
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