The kids and I spent the afternoon at Kims house, playing outside. They ate outside, played in the little lap pool, with the water table, in the sandbox, with the hose, with the toys, in the grass, etc etc etc. My kids had a riot, and were SOOO dirty by the end, hahaha! Dekker was probably the cleanest as usual, but Rowan was soak, his socks were FILTHY, and Laela was definitely the dirtiest, her legs covered in sand and purple freezie, her baby pink hat now grey. Worth it tho. Everyone got lots of sun and really seemed happy. All of our kids played well together, no scrapping or struggling. It was a big success. Kims youngest slept through most of it, but the rest of us enjoyed the outdoors today.
Around 4:00pm, Brady was done working for the day, and since he was working nearby at our house, he came over to help me load up the kids, just because he’s nice. Dekker had an absolute throw down, he was so sad to leave. Laela was very accepting, and did as she was told, which was nice. And Rowan was just happy to see daddy and unaware of pretty much everything else.
I expected everyone to crash on the drive home and sleep the short 20 minutes, but only Rowan slept, and it took a little while to get him there. So unfortunately, my kids were TRASHED once they got home. We put on a show so they could zone and rest a little bit, but I bailed for the evening, as Kim and I had some prearranged plans for a supper out and a quick little shop for a few camping things for her.
Brady texted shortly after I left about the debacle that was bathing the angry kids, and what a disaster his evening was. (For the record, he wasn’t trying to guilt me or anything, we just try to find humor in our kids sometimes) But I could reassure him that Kim and I were having a bit of a debacle ourselves, as her youngest son had come along with us and despite his 2.5 hour nap, was incredibly unhappy and would NOT have it. Any of it! We ended up getting our food packed up and took it to go. He finally gave into sleep in the stroller and we managed to limp through our shop with him waking and sleeping on and off. And I do mean limp. I was in a bit of a lame state of things right along with Ellijah. It was kind of a funny, messy, haphazard evening, but it worked, and we got what we needed to. I bought some nice tank tops and Kim got what she came for as well, snagging some groceries and a new Starbucks mug.
It didn’t last too long, however, and Kim is already on her way home. I’m home as well, and Brady has run a tub for me to soak in, so I’m going to go focus on THAT for a bit. Can’t wait! After such a good, but VERY busy day, I am ready to rest and call it an evening. I promise to show you pictures of Bradys work on our house very very soon! Tomorrow, second stage of finishing should be DONE!