Adam and I LOVE spending
time with {THE GIRLS}. Maybe it’s because they are each so different and entertaining
and we love them. Maybe it’s because we want to have relationships with them as
they grow older. Maybe it’s because we kind of live vicariously through them
until we have babies of our own. I am pretty sure it’s a mix of all of those. Either
way they are kind of a hot commodity around these parts. Between both sets of grandparents,
Aunts & Uncles, friends and their extremely
busy little lives, we don’t get to see them as much as we selfishly would like
to.
So when we had the opportunity
to watch the little stinkers for a few days, we jumped all over it. Jess was
headed out of town with friends and Michael had an expo he needed to be at all
weekend. SO Friday and Saturday they were ours.
I was excited since
I love any opportunity to bring kids to work. Friday I had two meetings that couldn’t
be moved, so we had to improvise a little.
Day One: I had
slept over since Michael had to cut out first thing in the morning. Adam has
day meetings and a closing shift so I was on my own for the day.
Number One: all
three kids have 4 different school schedules, dance practice for one, tennis
for the other and an entire regimen of medicine to help with their allergies.
It was a lot more complicated than I thought.
Number two: I literally
had an hour between pickups or drop off to try to get anything done. My house
would be a wreck and my kids would have no clean clothes if this were my
schedule. I guess that’s why generally you only have on baby at a time, and
they come out just that a baby. SO you can kind of ease into the whole
parenting thing.
So I got the kids
up. Made Avery shower. Got Ash dress. FORCED Gracie to brush her hair- which
she hated to we made a game of it to help find some time to work through those tangles.
Got Ash off to the carpool. Avery friend came over until school started. We
made lunches, did some laundry, read books (I wouldn't putting the TV on before
school), checked home work and then got Avery and her friend off to school.
Gracie and I had
just 2.5 hours before we had to be back in Lehi for the carpool drop off and we
had lots to do. We high tailed in to Provo listening to the alphabet song to
make it to a meeting. Gracie was a good sport. She was a little disgusted by
where I work- It is currently a construction zone and so there were people
everywhere, boxes, machinery and mud.
She sat through my meeting no problem playing cake doodle and eating a
laughy taffy. After our first meeting I had to get some work done so we went to
my office, which is in different building and Gracie colored and shoot hoops
while I cleared out some emails. We had a mini basketball hoop out to play March
Madness games, and she thought it was really fun.
We then had to get
back in the minivan and rush home- listening to the letter G the entire way
back. Once the girls were home we had a snack and read some books and then
started playing. I had seen on pinterested that if you use a box fan you can
blow up a duvet cover. IT TOTALLY worked, and the girls played in there for
hours.
We ate gluten free
Domino’s pizza and watched Enchanted before we did some facials. Friday is a
good day to stay up late, so we did some mud masks before we called it a night.
Ashtynn and Avery
were both SUPER excited about it. Gracie…not so much. She was pretty hesitant
until all of our masks started to dry and we couldn’t move out faces anymore. At
that point she wanted a little just on her cheeks. Gracie thought this was
funny so then she wanted a little more on her forehead. Then a little more on
her chin, until she was covered. It was so funny to see Ashtynn and Avery’s
faces turn hard and start to crack. They were chuckling as the mask got hard
and they couldn’t talk as much, it was silly.
After our beauty
parlor it was time for bed. I was for sure EXHAUSTED. Michael got home late and
I headed home to sleep in my own bed for the night.
Day Two: I had a
baby shower until the mid morning so Adam and I trekked up to Lehi together. We
stopped for caffeine reinforcements before we got there. We let sitter go early
and spent the rest of Saturday playing with the kids.
The girls had
already had a leisurely Saturday morning & we had some different activities
planned. We started by getting lunch into their little bodies. Up until this
point I think they tricked the sitter into letting them eat cookies for
breakfast. The three of them on a tag team can be quiet convincing. After lunch
we played Candy Land and relaxed a little before we got Easter Egg Dying ready.
At work people were
talking about how you could dye eggs with Kool-Aid. I had never heard of such a
thing and so I went straight to Google. SURE enough you can & IT doesn’t stink!
Since you don’t use vinegar, it’s a much more pleasant way to dye the eggs. We
picked ups 6 different colors and 2 dozen eggs.
One of my other
co-workers told me that if you draw on the egg while its warm with white crayon,
those places won’t get dyed. So Ashtynn and Avery tried out this technique and
for Gracie we put mini hair elastics all over the eggs to create fun designs.
We covered the
island with trash bags and got the colors already. IT was a lot of fun for the
girls to dye their eggs. Some of the colors took more time to work, others we
would skip next time. All in all it was a lot of fun, the girls had fun &
we had fun.
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| "MOM, do you like my lipstick?" |
After we dyed eggs
Adam put on some Ethiopian music videos and the girls had a fun time trying to
imitate the dance moves. After a few rounds of dancing we got the kids ready for
dinner at Johnny Rockets. It’s their favorite place because “the people wear
old fashion clothes and dance around”. Plus at work Jordan told Gracie to “Get
a milkshake” and she was imitating her best Man whisper voice all weekend.
The girls got all
dolled up and even used their new lipstick to be extra fancy. Gracie and I had
picked out different colors at the employee store at work. The girls LOVED
picking out their own colors to match their outfits.
As we were getting
ready to leave Michael had gotten home and we all went to dinner together.
It was a fun and
exhausting two days of watching our littles, and it was a lot of fun. I am
excited to see how these little girls grow up and change as their personalities
develop. I kind of like being an Aunt & Adam LOVES being an Uncle and I
hope they like spending time with us too!
♥ Celina
