My spring break is basically over. I know I still have the weekend, but it is going to be very full with Easter stuff. Hopefully this year I will even get some pictures posted. I still have a partially written Easter post from last year that never got posted. I seem t have a hard time getting the big things up here. Like Hawaii. I actually uploaded some pictures, they just aren't posted. Maybe soon. I didn't mean to ramble though I was going to tell about the rest of my break because it really was a pretty good week.
Isablle had been asking for quite a while if she could go to the park. Not just any park, but the castle park. We had told her we could go sometime this week. Wednesday was supposed to be the warmest day of the week, so that is the day we picked. I spent the morning doing some cleaning and then we packed up our lunches and headed out. As anticipated the park was very busy. My sister was bringing her kids as well. Isabelle was anxious for her cousin to show up. Even after they got there, they had a hard time focusing on their lunch. They just wanted to go play. Finally we let them go. The castle park has some slides, but it is mostly walkways, ramps, and secret cubby holes. They had a lot of fun running up and down and around. I spent most of my time in the kiddie area with Tristan. He liked to swing and go down the "lide." After about an hour we said it was time to go home. We, the adults, were more than ready to be done. The kids thought it was a tragedy to leave so soon. I decided to stop at Grandma's house on the way home. It isn't very far specially since the road was closed and the detour took us down Grandma's road. She wasn't home yet from getting her car fixed, so we got Tosha out and took her for a walk. I got her harness on all by myself. I was very proud. I was a little worried about pushing the stroller and holding the leash, but it mostly was fine. I even got some help. Tristan kept trying to hold the leash for me while he sat in the stroller. It was super cute. He didn't hold on very tight though and then I would have to chase the end out he the leash. Isabelle spent most of the walk saying how tired she was and out of breath. Curiously she wasn't too tired and out of breath at the park. Grandma got home just as we finished our walk. We stayed to visit with her for a little then headed home. Thomas was supposed to be home by then, but he had some problems come up at work and was taking longer than expected. His day off ended up being a 12 hour work day. I did some more yard work while we waited for him. Then we watched some Mary Poppins and headed to bed.
I had thought Thomas only had off work Tuesday and supposedly Wednesday, but he had Thursday off as well. We had a game day at my mom's house. Thomas went to go "exercise" at the pool. Everyone was a little late getting there and things weren't getting started. I didn't want to waste my day, so I finally got a game of Settlers of Catan going with the boys. The two oldest nephews are both going to turn 13 in the summer. I can't believe they are that old. I think that the other is about 11. They are almost the same age as the kids I teach. We actually had a pretty good game. I would have won if I could have got four more roads. After Thomas came we played a game called Wonders of the World. I think it is kind of fun. It is however a little bit compicated and I guess I didn't explain it well. Both Thomas and my mom (who had played before but it had been a while and she didn't remember the instructions) were confused. It ended up being a three way tie for 43 points and my nephew getting 44 points. Then I realized that the score for my set of cards was supposed to be squared not doubled. I had nine points for that section instead of six. I beat him by two points. Isabelle wanted to go home with her cousin. When I went to go pick her up they wanted to have a sleepover. I thought that would be fine. She is so sad about her cousin moving. They had gotten and offer on their house Thursday morning and my sister spent part of the day dealing with that. We went home and got her stuff and sent her back. At about 10:00 that night we remembered that we had a doctors appointment at 8:45 in the morning.
We did not get up as early Friday and we meant to. It ended up being a bit of a rush. We were only about two minutes late for the appointment and had to wait almost ten minutes still, so i didn't feel too bad. Everything went well. Both children are healthy. Isabelle is 34 lb. and 19 percentile. almost 42 inches and 37 percentile. Tristan was 24 lb. and 17 percentile. 31 inches and 5 percentile. For our kids that is really good. Tristan especially has moved up a little. The funny thing is despite being that low in weight and height, his head is 53 percentile. After the doctors we went home and got ready to go back to Grandma's house for the day. Thomas was working in the afternoon to close. I had planned to scrapbook with my mom. I paid for my younger sister to take Isabelle to see the new Chipmunk: Chipwreck movie. They both really liked it. I put Tristan down for a nap and we got quite a bit done. I took last Thursday and Friday off of work to go to a scrapbook party at my great-aunt's house. It was a lot of fun. She had tons of supplies and didn't mind letting us use any of it. My mom had a similar party back in October. I didn't take off work that time, so I was only there for Saturday morning. Before that I hadn't done any scrapbooking for several years. I have gotten excited about it again. Isabelle really enjoys looking through them and there aren't that many pictures of her. Most of the pictures are on the computer in digital format. I kind of need to decide if I am going to keep making traditional scrapbooks or if I want to try something more digital. Thomas is supposed to do one of the online books they print for his Africa trip. It was his birthday present last year, but he still hasn't gotten me the pictures. I also have points from pampers to do a book, which I wanted to do for Isabelle. The day did not end as well as I had hoped. I was planning on staying at my parents to watch a movie or something fun, but both the kids were having meltdowns. It was probably because of the shots. We packed up and headed home. Both kids were in bed and asleep by 8:30, which for us is really good.
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