On Saturday morning, it was my morning to get up with the boys and they slept until 6:30 am!!! I hate to jinx myself by saying this, but I think the 5am wake-ups are maybe/hopefully behind us! Hurrah! We did our usual library trip and then headed to gymnastics class while Phil grocery shopped. He made a delicious Spanish Tortilla which sadly our boys won't eat which is mind boggling to me since it's potatoes, ham, and eggs. The boys had scrambled eggs for lunch which Paul gobbled up but Will refused to eat. Toddlers, man.
Phil and Paul headed to his mom's after quiet time. I stayed back with Will since he has an earlier bedtime so they can stay longer. Phil usually works on a list of projects around the house for his mom and she gets quality time with Paul. I thought this picture of them working on a puzzle was so sweet! I guess he put most of a 100-piece puzzle together without much help from Nana!
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| This is how our skies looked for most of the weekend. It makes for a pretty, moody picture, though! |
We spent the rest of the afternoon playing in the basement. Kid toys are so much more fun than they were when I was a kid! I had fun making towers with these "STEM" magnetic toys and then Will would destroy them.
It lightly rained on us on the way home but Paul was a trooper, although we did need to make an emergency detour to a local park so he could use the bathroom. It made me think of Elisabeth and all the bathroom emergencies they had while visiting NYC!
After naptime, the skies had cleared and it was dry enough for the 4 of us to go to a local park. This is Paul's favorite park since it has this climbing structure that he can do. We were there for a solid 45 minutes which is a long park visit for us!
How was your weekend? Are you in the midst of a drought?
A four mile stroller run! Wow, Lisa!
ReplyDeleteI sure hope the early wakeups are a thing of the past! Fingers crossed!
NO drought ths weekend. It's pouring here. I don't mean raining. I'm not sure I even mean pouring. After gentle rain all morning it is like the sky opened up big time. It rained most of yesterday, too. A good day to bake and be inside!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you got good weather and a little bit of sleep in time. I hope it stays that way!
I think a 4-mile run is hard without a stroller. Go you!
ReplyDeleteThat climbing structure at the playground looks amazing. I sort of want to go visit that park and play!
Oh, I have to laugh. My daughter became SUPER difficult when she turned 2- it was like the "terrible twos" times one hundred (we didn't have that with my son at all- I guess it was the universe's way of evening things out.) So I can't say I'm a fan of the two-year-old phase- but it definitely depends on the kid.
ReplyDeleteSounds like you had a nice weekend in spite of the rain! Yes, I hope the 5 am wakeups are a thing of the past for you.
i've never tried stroller run, it must be quite a workout. one thing that my kids miss about the US is the outdoor playground. really good for the kids but here in tropical countries we have none. All play area is indoor.
ReplyDeleteYay for later-than-normal wake ups! And I completely remember how exhausting (grueling is the word that comes to mind!) those early days of toddler-hood were. You are doing a fantastic job and of course sometimes you just want the end of the day to come. There is no law that we have to enjoy every second of every day with our kids (and if there were, I would have been in jail a long time ago).
ReplyDeleteSo glad you were able to get outside as much as you did despite the weather! We are having that moody weather now. But somehow it is still HOT.
Yay for reasonable wakeups.
ReplyDeleteWe have been in the middle of a heat-wave for weeks...until Monday when it started raining and hasn't stopped! We have company visiting, so it has impacted our ability to do everything we had planned, but it's also almost 20 degrees cooler (isn't that crazy!), and it feels so nice to not have oppressive heat.
Lisa, I always appreciate how honest you are about motherhood. It's not always sunshine and rainbows, and that's okay! It's FINE not to enjoy certain stages, especially those first few years because they have to be so hard and exhausting with barely a second to yourself.
ReplyDeleteFlorida is so weird when it comes to our rainy weather. Summertime is our rainy season and we usually get rain every day but it never lasts longer than an hour. Yesterday, for example, was bright and sunny all day until 4pm when the storm clouds rolled in and it stormed for about an hour in the evening.