Rides, Fingerpainting, and Ice Cream

Last night while Mike was gone to his bowling banquet, I decided to take the girls to the mall.  I had a coupon I wanted to spend at JCPenney and thought I would get some of their energy out at the play area.  Well, the play area was closed (it looked like the roof may have been leaking) so the kids were very disappointed – good thing I had already taken them on the carousel.  Then shopping was quite fun, I decided on a pair of flip flops and then left.  I am not sure what I was thinking taking all of them by myself (we did eat dinner at the food court and that did go okay – it helps that they really didn’t eat lunch so they were all hungry!)  

We started celebrating Mother's Day a little early – yesterday.  We went for breakfast at IHOP (I figured that it would be a little quieter then and it was).  I wanted to try the new cheesecake “sandwich” pancakes – they were good but the picture shows A LOT more cheesecake filling than there actually was.   This morning Megan gave me the present she made for me in school and then we just relaxed a little.  The girls fingerpainted a little, Meredith LOVED it this time. 

After dinner tonight we went for a bike ride, we went for a pretty long one considering the twins tires are so small and towards the end, Meredith said – Mommy my legs are tired! – Mike said she sounded like me, not sure why I ALWAYS get the bad rap!  We then went to custard at Custard King (for Nanette).

It was a prefect end to a perfect day!

 

Happy Mother’s Day to all of the moms!

Until next week!

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Megan made sure we did not disappoint Grammie this weekend, Grammie requested we put pictures on the blog.  Today while we were at the zoo, she kept saying “take our picture for Grammie.”

Saturday, Megan had a soccer game, their team is doing a little better.  Megan is doing a little better I think she much prefers gymnastics over soccer.  The twins favorite part of soccer games are eating snacks!

                  

Saturday night after dinner we went to Walmart shopping and to buy another bike (thanks to Piper, Rory, and Avalon).  I thought there might have been a fight over the new bike but Meredith wants Megan’s little bike so Annalyse got the new bike.  Although these pictures look like the middle of the night, they are from about 8 o’clock (it was an overcast day – weekend for that matter).  We went for a family bike ride around the block and to the park tonight, the twins did pretty good.  Meredith definitely prefers to “sight see and stop and smell the roses,” she likes to see what everyone else in the neighborhood is up to.  Annalyse just goes flying along, she has to be reminded to slow down.

Today we went to the zoo (Mike’s spur of the moment idea).  We decided to feed the giraffes today.  Well, Megan and Mike did, Annalyse and Meredith were a little scared.  The weather was pretty overcast the whole day, but the weather held out.  It was a nice day to go, good temperature and not too busy.

I made the news!

Fortunately, the news isn’t about me – just involving something that happened after school one day.  Ironically, I didn’t even know about it until I watched the news myself.  I saw the TV station filming from across the street afterschool so I set the DVR.  They show me and Megan’s teacher after school (I am surprised Megan was not on it because she was standing right by us.

http://www.clickondetroit.com/video/23237578/index.html

Happy Birthday Annalyse and Meredith!

Hard to believe that the twinkies are three years old already!  The years sure have flown by!  They have mastered so much in even the past few months.  They are fully potty trained through the day – we still do pull-ups at night but Meredith would probably be fine without them, they language has gotten so much better, they can spell their names, ride a scooter…

We had a little birthday party at the house for them today with a few friends and neighbors.  They partied it up and went with out a nap the whole day – even after waking up at 6:40.