Kid Week

This week has been pretty busy with random things.
Monday: I ran errands in the morning after Preston's morning nap and then cleaned the house, did laundry and paid bills in the afternoon. Our neighbors invited us over for dinner and then our kids played for a bit. I took off to the gym after I put Preston down for bed.

Tuesday: A girl in our ward has a ruptured disc so she has been needing people to watch her kids in the morning while her husband is at work. She has a 2 1/2 yr old and 5 month old. I signed up to watch them this morning at my house, but I forgot! So I woke up at 7:30 to them calling to say they were here. :) The kids were easy and the baby was super easy. I need a baby like that who sucks his thumb and falls asleep wherever he is put!!! After lunch, their Dad picked them up and I put my kids down for afternoon naps. Then, at 3:30 my neighbor and friend, Darbi, dropped her 3 kids off because it was her birthday and her and her husband went out for dinner and some shopping. So the kids all played and got every toy out imaginable, which was totally fine, so when Kyle got home from work he said it looked like a tornado went off in our house! Having a playroom in our future house will be fabulous for this reason! After dinner, we sent all the kids outside to play for a bit and not too long after that Darbi came home. The kids played outside for a bit longer before it was bedtime and I went off to the gym again. I try to go about 3 times a week after the kids are in bed which is at 8 pm. It's kind of late, but then I don't have to pay for their kids club which gets expensive.

Wednesday: It was nice not having to go anywhere today. I like days like this when all the other days in the week are crazy there is one day of down time. We just chilled around the house and I played with Kate in her bedroom while Preston ate all her necklaces. Kate likes to pretend she's making cake with her necklaces so we pretended to make cake and then eat it. She's also in the pretending stage where she wants to switch roles so she'll tell me that I'm Kate and she is Mommy. Then she'll say, "Kate, I'm going to do this..." and I'll say "Okay, Mommy." It's pretty funny that she is already playing pretend like this. That night I watched my friend's 2 kids while her and her husband went to a park to watch a Romeo and Juliet play. It's been a week of kiddos for me! Funny how it happened to fall within the same week.

Thursday: We had playgroup at a beach where we could have entered a sand castle building contest, but we didn't. It was fun though, once we were all bundled up (the weather has been gross lately). The kids played on the playground and then on the beach in the sand. In the afternoon, I filled 100 water balloons to prepare for the Primary Activity Day for tonight. Well... it never happened. It started to downpour rain this afternoon and the forecast said rain for the rest of the night. Our activity was supposed to be at a park with water games and it was a "fun in the sun" theme. So we figured with no sun, we might as well reschedule it for next week when we might have a higher chance for some warmer weather! It was a bummer, but now I have 100 water balloons. The neighbor kids will love me when I let them have a water balloon fight. :)

Tomorrow night, I am going out to dinner and to go shopping with some friends of mine. It will be fun to have a girl's night out. Lucky husbands. Ha!