Monday, Monday

Today was one of those days where I just kept finding myself shaking my head and thanking the Lord for his goodness.  It started off with a nearly non-existent nap where the girls played in their cribs for an hour and a half before finally falling asleep, which forced me to wake two very cranky children out of a sound sleep to get them ready for a play date at the park.  Once the girls realized I had woken them up for something fun, they perked up and played wonderfully with two of their adorable friends from story hour (pictures below).  The Lord preserved the girls through some precarious slide maneuvers and attempts to ingest gravel and wood chips, and blessed all the kids with great attitudes as they navigated those tricky toddler waters of group playtime.  After two great hours at the park, we headed home and I got the girls ready for their afternoon nap.  I was changing one of them on the floor when her sister (who shall remain nameless) decided to bend over and randomly chomp into her forehead, leaving teeth marks and an extremely unhappy sister and mother.  I figured after one child was thoroughly disciplined and the other thoroughly consoled, that surely they must be ready for a good, long, deep nap.  But no, they decided to use their afternoon crib time for another two hours of rollicking good fun.  When I went up to retrieve the sleepless children, I found that one of them (the victim of the vampire sister) had somehow pulled a table lamp out of the wall and into her crib.  Thankfully, the light bulb was intact and she was unharmed.  She must have grown elastic Gumby arms when I wasn’t looking! 

The rest of the evening was blessedly uneventful, and they are now sleeping soundly (or at least, silently) upstairs.  Thank the Lord for a good, full, exhausting, exciting day!

Becky (middle): “Who knew playing in the gravel could get you so dirty?”

Susie: “Peekaboo!  I see you, baby!” 

Susie (on right): “This baby knows how to play!  She loves messing up wood chips as much as we do!”