We had a wonderfully laid back weekend.
Dave and I started our weekend on Friday by taking the day off and having a date day while the kiddos went to school. We had lunch and ran a few errands. Dave was able to sneak in a nap while I searched for plants at Gerten's for my planters. Then we picked up the kids made some sticky chicken and rice and then put the kiddos to bed and watched Friends with Benefits a romantic comedy with Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis. It was entertaining; but was never destined to win any awards.It was on either HBO/Showtime/Stars so a freebie. {grin}
Saturday you can read about here.
After the storms on Saturday, Sunday arrived HOT and STEAMY! It was 90 in the shade and humid. A perfect day for swimming in the pool! Thankfully our community pools opened this weekend! We planned for Carrie, Liv and Isaac came over to spend the afternoon swimming with us at the pool.
I spent the morning cleaning up and bit and going around doing paint touch-up's around the house. You know covering up little hand prints, scuffs and smudges on the walls. This is the first time I did this and I have to say it was pretty easy to do! Flat paint stinks because of the finger prints and other marks you can't wash away; however doing touch-ups took about 45 minutes and you don't use a lot of paint so it dried FAST even in Sunday's humidity. Carrie couldn't see the paint lines so I'm feeling pretty great about my work. (Tim - this doesn't mean I'm going to tackle painting the other spaces I need painting...no worries I still need you to come over to paint when you have a lull. No rush.) While I was painting Zach and Dave went shopping for chapter books, maps, and other fun stuff!
After the toddlers had their naps it was time to go swimming! Liv and Zach took turns jumping into the water into Dave's arms. Elaina was a bit frightened of the pool at first; but warmed up to it. After a couple of hours in the pool when we took her out she wanted right back in the pool! She was fine with all the splashing and loved watching Zach and Liv jumping into the pool. Isaac enjoyed the pool as well and really enjoyed the pick up fish game we played. After swimming the kids were all tuckered out. We all ate dinner together again and then enjoyed cupcakes for dessert. Num! Then it was time for our friends to go home. Zach was pretty upset that Liv had to go home.
Monday morning started a bit early in the Hoelzel house. Zach came into our room at 4 A.M. after having a bad dream. He fell asleep on the floor next to our bed and awoke at 6:30am whispering in mommy's ear that he wanted to go to Brady's house right now. Now I probably could have called Aunt Dawn as they were likely up already at their house. But Elaina was still sleeping. If Elaina is still asleep then mommy gets to sleep. I convinced Zach that he should lay down with me. He crawled into my side of the bed and he snuggled up to me and we both fell asleep until 8:45am when Elaina started making noise in her room and Zach giggled and said, "It's MORNING mommy! Now we can get up!"
We picked up Elaina and downstairs we went to make french toast for breakfast and snap a few cute photos of Zach and Elaina. (Predominately Elaina as Saturday was predominately Zach.) {wink}
Zach playing with Mommy's iPad.
Elaina trying to put her dolly's headband on her head
Give me my pacifier back mom!
Fake crying didn't work so let's try pouting....
Let's try looking like I'm trying to say P...L...E...A...S...E!
Pacifier is forgotten - Elaina is all smiles now!
Happy Elaina!
Elaina is coming at me to give me a big open mouth kiss.
Elaina looks a bit like auntie Brooke in this photo.
Elaina and her baby doll we may have to start calling her Pebbles instead of puppy.
Elaina found a pacifier somewhere in the playroom
Then mean mommy Megan took the pacifier away...
This is Elaina after I tossed the pacifier out of reach in the back of the rocking chair. In 10 minutes she was all smiles again and playing.
We were all {very} lazy today. Zach and Dave went swimming this afternoon while Elaina napped and mommy relaxed in the tub. I did manage to do six loads of laundry today, pick up the garage and make Rosemary Mustard Flank Steak on the grill so it wasn't a total lazy day.
Tonight we put up the maps Dave purchased for Zach this weekend. A large US map and another large World Map. We were amazed that Zach knew where certain things were. We asked him, "Carmel lives in Seattle, Washington - where is that on the map?" He pointed at Seattle, Washington and got it on his first try. He also noted that Carmel lives by the ocean and he wants to visit her to see whales and sharks there. He knew where Minnesota and Wisconsin were on the map. He also knew were New York City and Australia were. We knew they covered geography in school but did not expect him to KNOW where places were! Over the next few days I'm going to make little photos that we can put by different places to point them out to Zach. I'll have to use my re-positionable adhesive so we can move them around like post-it notes. This should be fun!
So that wraps up our weekend. No grand travels - a staycation with Zach's best friend Liv (and of course Carrie and Isaac too!). We had a fabulous weekend! We hope you did as well!
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