Brenna was off watching some over hyped pop starlet in Atlanta last night and smartly stayed there overnight. I, on the other hand, was here holding down the fort. Which Brenna does a great job of handling every day, so her day/night out to catch a concert was well deserved.
We woke on Sunday morning. Well, I woke on Sunday, with Aiden poking me in the nose saying, "I want to play with you...after you get me a waffle 'cause I can't reach them." I looked at the clock.
6:13 a.m.
Ugh...
The rest of the kids woke eventually. By saying that, I mean that Bryce was up shortly after Aiden and Ansley dragged herself out of bed sometime around nine...uh...thirty. Yep, she is a carbon copy of her Mom as a teen...already.
Once they were all up and semi-functional, I made Sunday morning pancakes, and began thinking, what in the heck am I going to do with these little people? They were scarfing down the pancakes at an alarming pace, and I was quickly running out of time on my first plan for entertaining them. Food. I was going to be chased down with the same enthusiasm as they were eating breakfast, if I didn't come up with something fast.
I shouted over the breakfast time din. (Honestly, does anyone know how kids eat, shout, fight, hurt themselves while sitting in a simple chair, and breathe at the same time? I don't know, but there must be some scientific study on it by now...I'll google it later.)
Anyhoo...I shouted, let's play a game outside before it gets hot. Yes, I knew it was already too late for the hot part. I swear I saw a bird on the bird feeder burst into flame a moment before, but I had to do something though.
What do you want to do? Play knights, kings and pirates? "Yeeufff!" they replied with mouths full of jelly covered pancakes, and then Aiden said, "and there should be a shark!"
Ok...why not!
They gathered up their shoes, put on swimsuits and got some ideas together on what to do. Bryce said something about sliding away out of a castle on the zip line and crashing into a wall or something. I figured, what better than to smash stuff while on a zip line. Yes, I am a guy and assuredly my poor wife's 4th child. The next 20 minutes were spent finding capes, swords and a shark costume...naturally. We also spent a few minutes gathering up all the plastic blocks in the basement that we could load into the wagon in order to build a target...uh...castle.
When I saw how excited they were, I pulled out the GoPro. Nothing that silly and playful should go undocumented. Not with today's technology. Right?
Well whether you agree or not that we should, as a society, spend lots of our time making dumb movies with GoPro cameras, we did it anyway. And we had a blast!
Enjoy and happy Sunday!
We woke on Sunday morning. Well, I woke on Sunday, with Aiden poking me in the nose saying, "I want to play with you...after you get me a waffle 'cause I can't reach them." I looked at the clock.
6:13 a.m.
Ugh...
The rest of the kids woke eventually. By saying that, I mean that Bryce was up shortly after Aiden and Ansley dragged herself out of bed sometime around nine...uh...thirty. Yep, she is a carbon copy of her Mom as a teen...already.
Once they were all up and semi-functional, I made Sunday morning pancakes, and began thinking, what in the heck am I going to do with these little people? They were scarfing down the pancakes at an alarming pace, and I was quickly running out of time on my first plan for entertaining them. Food. I was going to be chased down with the same enthusiasm as they were eating breakfast, if I didn't come up with something fast.
I shouted over the breakfast time din. (Honestly, does anyone know how kids eat, shout, fight, hurt themselves while sitting in a simple chair, and breathe at the same time? I don't know, but there must be some scientific study on it by now...I'll google it later.)
Anyhoo...I shouted, let's play a game outside before it gets hot. Yes, I knew it was already too late for the hot part. I swear I saw a bird on the bird feeder burst into flame a moment before, but I had to do something though.
What do you want to do? Play knights, kings and pirates? "Yeeufff!" they replied with mouths full of jelly covered pancakes, and then Aiden said, "and there should be a shark!"
Ok...why not!
They gathered up their shoes, put on swimsuits and got some ideas together on what to do. Bryce said something about sliding away out of a castle on the zip line and crashing into a wall or something. I figured, what better than to smash stuff while on a zip line. Yes, I am a guy and assuredly my poor wife's 4th child. The next 20 minutes were spent finding capes, swords and a shark costume...naturally. We also spent a few minutes gathering up all the plastic blocks in the basement that we could load into the wagon in order to build a target...uh...castle.
When I saw how excited they were, I pulled out the GoPro. Nothing that silly and playful should go undocumented. Not with today's technology. Right?
Well whether you agree or not that we should, as a society, spend lots of our time making dumb movies with GoPro cameras, we did it anyway. And we had a blast!
Enjoy and happy Sunday!
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