Gosh! am i the worst blogger or what? *sigh* i just don't know if i am just not that into blogging or if i am lazy or if i just have a million other things on my mind and my to do list and i just never quite make it to the blog. but i just looked at a blog that a friend follows called Savvy Little Women. This woman has 6 kids including two sets of twins and she somehow manages to blog. nothing long. nothing overly newsy. just little blurbs here and there with tidbits of wisdom and sharing her insanity. haha. so i figure i need to make a better effort. maybe i should set a reminder on my phone for a once a week sort of blog...start off small and then hope to grow into a more frequent blogging??? i don't know. but for now...a quick update.
summer has been fun for the most part and very full already. we started off our summer with grandiose plans to hit the park every tues. and the library for story time every monday and then a playdate with various friends on either thursday or friday each week...that lasted all of one week. we went to the park and delia just doesn't want to play in the fountains. the bigger kids who are so used to the fountains run and scream and have a blast and i think she is overwhelmed and just doesn't want to get run over. so instead she runs all over the big kid playground and wants to play on the equipment that is really too dangerous for her. the result is zannah winds up sitting on a towel and is left with whoever i came with while i chase delia all over creation. we have to slather on tons of sunscreen and by the time we leave a mere hour or so later everyone is hot, sweaty, and their cheeks are bright red. baths are a must as soon as we finish snack time in order to cool down and get the chemicals off ourselves. i just decided...no more. it was stressful and my poor friends were stuck babysitting zannah. not that she is high maintenance, but that is not what they came to do. the library was a total fiasco! i had very high hopes for mondays as delia loves books. but it was crowded with kids who were mostly school age. mine was practically the youngest one and she had not been to a story time in her life. she didn't want to sit on the round rug bc there were so many kids and no space for her. so she sat on a chair next to me and kept getting down and talking loud. there was a puppet show and at one point she was so into it that she actually fell off the chair onto a kid. she said "sorry" and patted him, but i felt like i was at story time with a fish out of water not the child i see at home every day. the icing on the cake was when she threw the biggest tantrum of her life as we were leaving. she screamed like i was tearing her toenails out all the way out the door, all the way to the car and even up until the car started moving. i decided we aren't doing THAT again! they have a story time during the school year and i am sure it isn't nearly as crowded and hopefully it will be geared towards toddlers rather than preschoolers. so instead, i broke out our little $7 plastic swimming pool, chris cleaned out the car port and we suited up. no need for sunscreen bc there is no sun in our car port. we get a nice breeze through there too (unlike the park!) and delia loves the pool but not as much as our splash monster...zannah! delia's favorite thing is to get in and out of the pool with her water shoes and slosh about the car port. :) it is too rowdy in the pool with zannah anyhow. as of late tho, zannah doesn't splash as much without her big sister in the pool and gets upset that she is alone for the most part in the pool. :( alas. we have been using our bucket of sidewalk chalk, unfortunately we also discovered that when you drop chalk, it breaks and can't be repaired. no matter how many times you tell mommy it is broken.
we are trying to keep on schedule, but with the fun things like VBS and the 4th of July...it has been hard! but our days are packed with errands, swimming, fresh beat and dora. the girls both celebrated their birthdays and they got a ton of fun stuff. so we play in our kitchen and w/out helicopter as well as watching some of our dora dvd's. we had a combo party at the park and just held off opening presents until we got home. we opened one a day for several days and then VBS hit and we paused and just resumed. we have one more bag to go through. i did post a few pics...but i find this blogger not user friendly for photo uploading. grrr. facebook is way easier, so for those of you with facebook...you've seen all the pics...for those of you without...they will be new for you to look at.
sorry i am such a terrible blogger! i will try to be better. hopefully.
summer has been fun for the most part and very full already. we started off our summer with grandiose plans to hit the park every tues. and the library for story time every monday and then a playdate with various friends on either thursday or friday each week...that lasted all of one week. we went to the park and delia just doesn't want to play in the fountains. the bigger kids who are so used to the fountains run and scream and have a blast and i think she is overwhelmed and just doesn't want to get run over. so instead she runs all over the big kid playground and wants to play on the equipment that is really too dangerous for her. the result is zannah winds up sitting on a towel and is left with whoever i came with while i chase delia all over creation. we have to slather on tons of sunscreen and by the time we leave a mere hour or so later everyone is hot, sweaty, and their cheeks are bright red. baths are a must as soon as we finish snack time in order to cool down and get the chemicals off ourselves. i just decided...no more. it was stressful and my poor friends were stuck babysitting zannah. not that she is high maintenance, but that is not what they came to do. the library was a total fiasco! i had very high hopes for mondays as delia loves books. but it was crowded with kids who were mostly school age. mine was practically the youngest one and she had not been to a story time in her life. she didn't want to sit on the round rug bc there were so many kids and no space for her. so she sat on a chair next to me and kept getting down and talking loud. there was a puppet show and at one point she was so into it that she actually fell off the chair onto a kid. she said "sorry" and patted him, but i felt like i was at story time with a fish out of water not the child i see at home every day. the icing on the cake was when she threw the biggest tantrum of her life as we were leaving. she screamed like i was tearing her toenails out all the way out the door, all the way to the car and even up until the car started moving. i decided we aren't doing THAT again! they have a story time during the school year and i am sure it isn't nearly as crowded and hopefully it will be geared towards toddlers rather than preschoolers. so instead, i broke out our little $7 plastic swimming pool, chris cleaned out the car port and we suited up. no need for sunscreen bc there is no sun in our car port. we get a nice breeze through there too (unlike the park!) and delia loves the pool but not as much as our splash monster...zannah! delia's favorite thing is to get in and out of the pool with her water shoes and slosh about the car port. :) it is too rowdy in the pool with zannah anyhow. as of late tho, zannah doesn't splash as much without her big sister in the pool and gets upset that she is alone for the most part in the pool. :( alas. we have been using our bucket of sidewalk chalk, unfortunately we also discovered that when you drop chalk, it breaks and can't be repaired. no matter how many times you tell mommy it is broken.
we are trying to keep on schedule, but with the fun things like VBS and the 4th of July...it has been hard! but our days are packed with errands, swimming, fresh beat and dora. the girls both celebrated their birthdays and they got a ton of fun stuff. so we play in our kitchen and w/out helicopter as well as watching some of our dora dvd's. we had a combo party at the park and just held off opening presents until we got home. we opened one a day for several days and then VBS hit and we paused and just resumed. we have one more bag to go through. i did post a few pics...but i find this blogger not user friendly for photo uploading. grrr. facebook is way easier, so for those of you with facebook...you've seen all the pics...for those of you without...they will be new for you to look at.
sorry i am such a terrible blogger! i will try to be better. hopefully.
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