I have been wanting to teach Bodie how to use a spoon. Since the kids wanted oatmeal for breakfast, I thought that this was the perfect opportunity. Everything was going really well until..........Sutton had to go to the bathroom...............................
Hmmm you'd think that after having two other children that were just one year old like a second ago, I'd know to make the mental note, "Make sure you put the bowl on the table before you leave."
Laina found her princess dress-up clothes in a box while looking for her camera and was really excited to be a princess again.
Lunchtime with Sutton after twirling.
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| Doing a craft for Grandma Brown's birthday |
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I was listening to Focus on the Family and they had a couple named Bill and Pam Farrel as guests. They were giving suggestions on how to keep your intimacy good in your marriage. Anyway, they gave a few suggestions for spending time together. Anyway a couple of suggestions were to take a date once a week this could be at home. They said that when they had kids at home still, Thursday was their date night. They had "Thursday night" toys that they kids could only play with on Thursdays and could stay up as long as they wanted as long as they stayed in their beds. A couple other suggestions were to go on a real date (not necessarily spending money) away from the house once a month and a vacation once a year (with the whole fam) just to get away from every day life. Anyway, we decided to start the once a week date thing at home. So Mark thought that the kids' special thing would be to be able to sleep in the same room, which is a good idea. He filled Laina's room with couch cushions and blankets.
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| hahaha their facial expresions hahahaha |
They loved it. But at one point Sutton was stuck in the tunnel and screaming bloody murder because he couldn't get out. (hahahahahaha...poor kid) and then when they were tired and Laina wanted to go to sleep she said, "Can you clean up my room? It's too messy." hahaha They did have a lot of fun though. It kept them busy from 6pm until almost 9p. That's when Laina got tired (she didn't fall asleep at naptime today). I cleaned the room up a little so you could find their beds -I should have taken a picture of the room after they played in it!- and had them lay down and go to sleep. Then after that they were still giggling away until probably 10p. They had a great time. And no fighting!! Of course, they did know that if they did fight they had to be separated.
We were afraid that Laina and Sutton would crawl into Bodie's crib which is why we had them be in Laina's room. So we gave Bodie some special things to play with in his bed too.
But he was asleep by 6:45p. Guess he's not a party animal like his two older siblings.
