Weekend with the Kiddies

This past weekend the Senator and I had the kiddies. Our God-children. I was quite and adventure and in the words of the Senator an "eye opener". We began our weekend with the local Carnival

I'll say this now so you don't have to read me repeat it throughout this entire post. We watched Cars and Monsters Inc. 5 times a day, each. No kidding. So from now on when I say "the usual" this is what I mean. After Friday night's festivities, we commenced with "the usual".

Saturday was another day and with it came a perpetual feeling of exhaustion. We went to Larriland Farms out in Howard County for a day filled with pumpkins, laughs, cries, and anything else you can imagine.

We totally got an 'A plus' in their books for this day. We did so well, I slept all the way home. After a nap swap off. Hubbs and I were so pathetic, we walked down to the park at the end of our apartment neighborhood and let them rip and run and play. It was also there that we painted the pumpkins.

In inscription is my handy work. The artists did everything else.

Saturday night was filled with the usual, but with a little more structure. We got back to the around 630 pm

Had bath-time

Dinner by 730 pm and promised they could finish one "usual" movie. At 850 pm I sent little Ms. J to bed, turned on the smooth jazz channel, got young Mstr. J his nightly sippy-cup of "monk" which translates to "milk" in adult terms and rocked him to sleep. Which only took about five minutes, since he had run a muck all weekend. I love it when my plans work out in my head and in real life. I ended the night with snuggling with the Senator on the couch and saying out loud... "I can totally do this".

Because Saturday night was structured, we had a pretty decent Sunday morning. We have to be at church really early and we live a solid 25 minutes away. So our usual 630 awakening had to to be pushed to 600 so we could feed the kids. They were still amazed with the fish.