Sundays

I caught this one sided conversation between Seth and Elyse while they were playing house today:

Seth:  I am the bishop so I have to go to meetings.  Elyse, you are the mom so you have to stay home.

Yup.  He's got it down.

Though the situation isn't ideal, I'm actually pretty happy to stay home instead of going to meetings.  Every once in a while my kids play with each other contentedly and I can watch them have fun together.  This morning they built this fort/slide/tumbling track:

And I'll also feel completely justified in making Jon help them clean it all up!

Pajama Day

Friday was a self proclaimed pajama day for Elyse.  In other words, I wasn't up for the battle. Sadly, I also must admit I'm pretty sympathetic; I'd wear pajamas all day if I could too.  And after this happened in about 10 seconds when I wasn't looking I figured pajamas beat nakedness anyday.

While we were out on our errands for the day, Elyse insisted that I take a picture of her while riding the horsey and saying "giddy-up!"

What a character!

Sock Lint

Before taking a bath Seth will meticulously clean out all the sock lint from in between his toes because he doesn't want his bath water to be "dirty."I find this ironic since he has no problems wearing a peed in nighttime pull-up half the morning. I guess that's a cleaner type of dirty to him!

Seth's Playdate

I'm pretty awful about arranging play dates for my kids. Seth has especially been neglected ever since Matthew has given up on me and started arranging his own.  So Seth was over moon excited to have his very first kindergarten friend play date.  What's more he got to ride the bus from school to his friend's house.  He was so thrilled that he "composed" his own note to his teacher letting her know he'd be riding the bus a full four days in advance. Thankfully he didn't object to me adding in a caption, oh, and my signature!

Better Luck Next Time

The pun is totally intended.  It didn't quite turn out as well as last year but you can't expect to be perfect when you only make it once a year.  It was kind of a last minute effort.  We didn't have pretzel sticks to make the ladder and the boys made their own "coins" from tin foil to lure in the leprechaun because I hadn't gotten any chocolate coins.  Maybe I'll be more on top of it next year . . . or the next . . . or the next . . . .

The leprechaun was not fooled by the tin foil coins and decided to make mischief and leave confetti all over the cake and cupcake to show his fury. 

You can sort of see the rainbow, right?!