Thursday, April 16

good day

The man has been away this week, but should be home around 3am. Awesome! Anyway, hanging out with 2 kids all day with no grown-up time at the end of the day for conversation or help with the aforementioned kids is...tiring. Makes days long. But today, day 4 of just us, was a really good day. Started out ominously, with the little one pooping herself awake after only about 20 minutes of nap, after having been awake since 5am. We went for a bike ride, but didn't get far, as I was biking with the babe on my bike, and the boy was biking in front of me, stopping or slowing down every 32 seconds for one reason or another. For example:
- why did you stop?
- I drove through a puddle.
- so did I.  why did you stop?
- I got mud on my tire.  see?  there.
- it's a tire.  it's allowed to have mud on it. let's go.
- my legs are sore though. (this after roughly 0.02km of biking)
- turn around.  turn around now, we're going home.

We made it through lunch, and a trip to Superstore.  We went for a wagon ride (that thing is HEAVY to pull up hill when full of kid, FYI) and then the baby ate some sidewalk chalk while the boy and I scribbled.  She finally got cranky and agreed to go for a nap.  This allowed the boy and I to hang out one-on-one, which we don't really get to do much of.  We took the training wheels off his bike and I chased him around for an hour.   He had so much fun; it was great.  Quite tiring, but great.   He then helped me write his name on the sidewalk, and then every other name of family members he knows.  No big fights, everyone ate supper without complaining.  The girl actualy, possibly, ate as much as I did.  Definitely more than the boy. Now I'm just hanging out, waiting for the Office to start, debating how much snacking my mom-workout entitles me to. Thursdays are my snacking night, moreso than others, because usually the best tv is on. Since the ER finale though, there's been not much going on. I may just go play mariokart, who knows. 
I've only got 3 grand prix races left that I haven't won gold in.  You're impressed, I can tell.  I haven't gotten the requisite 1 gold star ranking which unlocks all kinds of goodies, but I have gotten some new characters and vehicles for winning trophies, so that's something.

either way, I'm out.

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