September 19, 2012

Sittin' Pretty!

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• Today was my second full day not to leave the house-blissful!  I have even been researching chickens, rain barrels and composters-seriously.  Don't worry though, I will have to prove myself with a vegetable producing garden before Robby let's me buy the 500 dollar chicken coup for 3 chickens.  But you probably came to the blog to read about the kids...
• Graham is the only one of the kids that has been out of the house lately too.  The last few times that he has been in the car with me and we have seen a police car, he has started shouting "be good, be good, a police car!"  
• This morning was wonderful.  The kids nor us didn't wake up until after 7:30-how wonderful was that?  And then the next thing that I knew, we were all upstairs telling Robby bye as we were building lincoln log houses.  Soon Campbell put on her clothes and the boys followed (Since I am no longer leaving the house (until in the morning) I only shower and then put on a clean pair of pajamas-drives Campbell crazy!)
• We had breakfast and then did school.  School was a bit wilder today and that was all because of Graham.  Last year Graham did much better in school than he did today.  But on Tuesday and Thursdays lately Graham hasn't been home for school so that just leaves Wednesdays and Fridays that he has been doing school with everyone-and he has gotten a bit our of practice.  Ha!  He finally got back into the routine of things after awhile.  We still finished by lunch time!
• After lunch we all headed outside.  The plan was to do a science experiment but I didn't have any string (now that I think about it-I do have some).  Anyway, the kids found a rope and started trying to capture whoever was swinging (don't worry-I was keeping a close eye).  Then we took a walk around the block and ended our outside time with popsicles.  Actually that was my ploy to get Campbell inside for her nap.  I told the others they could stay outside but as soon as I walked in the house, they all came in too.
• Reagan spent most of the afternoon working on painting beads-one of her birthday party presents.  That girl loved all of her craft stuff, especially since she is going to be an "artist" when she grows up.  The boys are also going to be artist-maybe I need to expose them to a few other careers.  
• The afternoon seemed to fly by and Robby was home soon.  When he came home, I was busy making supper for tomorrow night-completely neglecting supper for tonight.  Fortunately the kids didn't have sandwiches for lunch so that is what we had-along with some leftover birthday party cupcakes.  
• After those cupcakes, everyone needed showers.  After showers, we cleaned up for a bit and then the kids watched one more movies before bed.  Keaton didn't watch the movie but spent her time practicing walking-she is so funny.  She takes a few steps and then looks around waiting on anyone to clap for her!