So Friday night Daddy came home. Unfortunately the pictures were not up to Mommy's usual standards, so the evidence is minimal. The kids showed Tim the count-down calendar they made, and then they climbed all over him.
Saturday morning Tim took pity on me and woke up with them. It was the first time I'd slept-in in ... yeah, I have no idea...
Saturday afternoon the Bridges came over to swim. I usually video the kids at the beginning of the afternoon, but I really shouldn't have b/c the little man just continued to step it up all day long. He's an animal! We had to force him to rest after every length he did because he was soooo intense. By the end of the day he was swimming half the long-way of the pool underwater. He's 2. Totally crazy. I'm not even posting the early stuff he did b/c it's just not worthy.
Sunday I took my turn to get up with them. By this point I was used to getting up with the dawn. It was cute though, when Tim got up he mentioned that he was surprised I hadn't posted any welcome home pics. Honestly, I just didn't have anything worth posting. Mama's got to have her standards... The kids did have some cute moments with him though. They were more sweet, quiet ones. More his style than mine. It's awesome to see the kids adapt to that. They catch on more than you would think.
So, since having the kids I have been collecting 2nd hand costume pieces. But up until this weekend, the kids really hadn't given them the time of day. That had been surprising to me considering I had loved dress-up as a kid. Interestingly, it was Dalton who really got into them. He tried on all kinds of Princess dresses. Darby did a few, but the shoes intrigued her more than anything else. Still, I was happy to see them get put to good use.
Strangely, after we did the Princess thing for a while, we transitioned into a Kittens/Mittens thing thing that Darby was very into. I vaguely remembered the song from my youth, but Darby was performing it like a Shakespearean play. Gotta love the drama in her.
Sunday afternoon we went to Kennedy's b-day party at the gymnastics place. I wasn't sure how Darby would take to it, but after her normal warming up period, she was all over it. It has become our latest 5 year-old b-day party obsession. But
I refuse to commit to anything more than a month out out of self-preservation...
