The Weekend

It's Sunday night, all the kids are asleep finally, and Josh is upstairs watching T.V. I finally have some time to write. The weekend was pretty good. On Friday night my mom surprised us with an impromptu offer to watch the kids. Of course we jumped at that offer.

So, Josh and I went to Asiana for dinner. It 's this quaint Thai restaurant. I ate sushi. I used to swear I wouldn't, but Josh has wanted me to try it for so long that I finally did the last time we were there and it was pretty good. I got Spicy Tuna roles and Salmon Tempera. I picked the tuna roles because the way they are made you can't see the fish inside and if I put a big piece of ginger on top I can't even tell it's there. It is really good. I just have trouble with the idea of having a raw piece of fish in my mouth. Something about that just doesn't seem right to me. None the less, I ate it and really enjoyed it. The night out was really good for us and we had some great discussions about life.

Saturday was a really great day. The kids had swimming lessons in the morning and it is so much fun to see them do this. They are all like guppies, they love the water. Providence is doing so well, she is really into "bobbing" right now and loves to tell me how many she did all by herself without grabbing anyone. She gets out of the pool with bloodshot eyes because of the chlorine and you'd think it would bother her, but no way. She wants more... The boys are really getting into it now, especially since they have wrapped the old lady teachers around their fingers with their cute smiles. The big thing is learning to dive right now. Noah seems to have really gotten it and does a great job, other than tossing his hair around every time he comes out of the water. Now Josiah, he hasn't quite figured out the importance of keeping your head down when you dive, he really wants to see it all as he goes in the water. Unfortunately he always looks up right before he enters the water, then his body flattens and WHACK! He does a belly smacker. I am sure he did about twenty on Saturday, but he swears "I don't feel them, what?" Then he comes out of lessons with these giant red marks on his stomach. He does do a good job of providing entertainment for the ladies though.

On Saturday night I got to hang out with my friends Kate, Calley, and Christy. We went to my new favorite place, the coffee shop down the street. It was really fun, we laughed, had good food and got a chance to actually listen to what each other was saying. It's funny how as moms you forget how distracting your kids are until you hang out with adults without them. It was a great night.

This morning the kids and I just hung out here. We decided to clean up our street and walk down the street to the coffee shop with a garbage bag and fill it as we went. It was lots of fun and I of course got a coffee out of it. I was amazed and a little disappointed at the amount of trash we picked up just from one side of the street. The coolest thing was how much fun the kids had and how many people we got to encounter on our street that we normally wouldn't have. It was nice to feel a bit of community and for my kids to do something for others.

We grilled out and had my dad and Linda over. It was fun the kids all played outside and got really dirty. They wrestled, played on the swing set, blew bubbles, tossed football. Oh and blew bubbles in each other eyes, used Josiah's head for a football target, tried to decapitate each other going down the slide. You know, the usual stuff kids do in a back yard.

At dinner we played this game that Linda got us for Christmas. It's this can with cards in it and you choose a card and it gives you an activity to do at the table. It's really fun, our activity was to start with a word that had to do with a farm, the next person says a word that they would associate with the previous word. Example: bard, chicken, egg, omelet, etc... Well at my table it goes a little something like this: farm (me), horse (linda), farm (providence), horse (josiah), farm (noah, with a grin), etc... Then we moved into the bodily functions somehow and terd was the preferred word any way you could describe it. Of course we stopped that you can't talk about terds at the dinner table. So, we talked about smells and then it all came full circle to the smells of Eve's diapers and what is in Eve's diapers? Terds of course. We just can't seem to win our kids are really focused on gross bodily functions. I guess there are worse things you could be focused on.