My plan for the summer is to keep everyone nice and busy! We had a great start today. Rush has decided that we should all start our day at 5:45 am. This is much earlier than they had to wake up during the school year, so I don't know what IS UP!!?? I am not even a girl that likes to sleep late, but I tend to stay up a little later during the summer, so that feels REALLY early to me right now to be starting the day. But, according to Rush's schedule, we are all up and have had breakfast and are out the door for our morning walk a little after 7:00. I told him tonight as I was tucking him in that if he wakes up and doesn't hear anyone else awake to stay in his bed and try to make himself go back to sleep. Generally, when you just tell two year olds to randomly force themselves to go back to sleep, it works like a charm, so we'll see what tomorrow holds. ;-)
After our morning walk, we went to the post office and then to Walmart to buy some flowers, seeds, and new watering cans. We planted some flowers by the front door. Hopefully, this will draw our visitors' attention down to the lovely flowers and away from the door that needs to be sanded and restained. Too hot for that now because I would have to leave the door open for a little while... not an option in this unbearable heat! {But, who am I kidding? It has needed to be restained for a while now!} Did you hear me mention the heat? Oh, great day in the morning, it is H-O-T.. even for early June in Alabama. Temps have been averaging in the upper 90s! So, when we got home with our plants and seeds, Rush was already beginning to wilt. He poked out that bottom lip and said, "I go inside now. I hot." It was hot, I will give him that, but we had spent $43 at Walmart on gardening junk, and by gosh, we were going to have fun! I think I uttered the words, "Get over here and plant these seeds. Now." {I will admit that my tone was less than friendly...} So fun and precious of me! We all had to have showers/baths before lunch today. I think they will be excited to see the seeds grow into flowers, though. We planted marigolds because it said, "Easy to grow" on the package. Yes, I don't need any flowers that won't bloom. SF has asked me about 45 times today if she has "fowers" yet. This could be a long 5-7 days.
Yesterday, I decided to be brave and attempt "Toddler Time" at the library again. We went ONCE last summer. If you don't remember, there was a kid that stole Rush's backpack and several children that made me feel like I wanted to use my "teacher voice." Umm... control your children please. We were already heading to the library, though, and would be there just before the 10:00 program started. So, I thought, "Why not?" If it is chaotic again, we can leave. So, the sweet media specialist comes in to start the program and says about 4 words before
Godzilla begins to shriek on the other side of the room. Everyone's kids have had their unsavory moments. We once had a "the bow-screaming incident" at Target. But as a parent, you gotta
know when to fold 'em. This Mama wanted to try to regroup her child that was bucking out of her arms and screaming, quite honestly, like nothing I have ever seen. It was a full-on, out of control, FIT. There was no regrouping, and everyone in the room seemed to realize it. Except his Mama. Even the sweet group leader said, "Do we need to take a break?" "We" meaning, "you" with the kid that is freaking out. Finally, a librarian from outside the enclosed room came in and pointed at the mom and gave her the "thumb out" sign. I was pretty impressed. She got up and left. I felt bad for her, but then I sorta didn't. I would have been high-tailing it out of that place if that had been one of mine. Thankfully, the rest of the session was very pleasant, and the twins really liked it. We sang songs, she read two books, and we even glued some ice cream cones together. It was entertainment that didn't involve my two slamming each other's faces in the laundry room door {Rush to SF when we returned from Walmart today}. So, we will go back and brave the library next Wednesday.
The kids are also going to start a gym/tumbling class next Thursday. I promise to post pictures from that. Little Frannie needs some gross motor skill development. She can tend to be on the clumsy side. :-) Rush can do a front roll already, and he likes to show people. He calls it a "headstand". Eh.. semantics. :-)
We also had a fun day at the pool with some friends, and we are looking forward to lots more "pool days"!
These are some pictures from our morning of gardening. I am also including a picture of SF's first "real" ponytail. There was nothing but a rubberband holding it up, and she was very excited. It didn't require any barrettes, etc. :-) She has also turned into my little helper and wants to help put away laundry. She is shown carrying the sheets to the guest room. Where was Rush? He was busy watching his allotted time from "Whitening Na Queen". The boy loves
Cars.
Cars 2 is coming to theaters this June and is rated G. I think I see their "first movie" experience coming our way. :-)
