Canche Chronicles: Our weekend

SATURDAY was a pretty low key day. We slept in a little too late and I almost missed a bridal shower for a girl from our church that I had forgotten about! Fortunately, my friend Meg texted me and that was my reminder! David stayed back with the kids which wasn't too bad because Emily was napping at that point. When I got back he was feeding them a frozen pizza for lunch. Well, he had put it in the oven so it wasn't frozen anymore, you know what I mean. After they ate we put them down for naps and then I went to Lowe's to pick up a couple things. We did a lot of home improvement projects on Saturday.

First I worked on some curtains for the den and then David and I went outside and planted grass in the front yard. That sounds pretty simple but it involves tilling up the ground with a garden hoe, then mixing in some topsoil we had, then laying some fertilizer, then laying some grass seed, and finally spreading pine needles over it all. Oh, and then we had to water it. The girls woke up while we were working on that and we didn't finish until dinnertime. We decided to reward ourselves by grabbing our dinner at Chick-fil-a and taking it to the splash pad to eat. Haley was so excited to be at the splash pad, almost too excited to eat. We stayed there a solid hour until it started to get late and consequently, cold. I had brought their pajamas so we put the girls right into those and came home. We let them stay up for a little bit to play and then we put them to bed.

SUNDAY David went to church early to observe worship set-up (he's in charge of it next week) so I was on my own to get ready with the kids. Haley woke up a couple minutes before my alarm went off so she kept me company the whole time. Emily ended up sleeping late and we almost had to wake her up to get out the door on time but we made it! I held Emily through the sermon and she did well. She has a pair of red shoes that Aunt Carly got her for Christmas that she loves to play with so I usually just give her one of those and it keeps her busy.

After church we went to the Maglott's house for a block party. The Maglotts are in our small group and they helped us put on a block party for our neighborhood about a year and a half ago so we were helping them do the same thing in their neighborhood. We were basically just there to help with food and make it look like there were people actually there, haha. Jess had a pack 'n play set up for us in the spare bedroom and Emily took her nap in there during the party. They only had two families from their neighborhood come which was kind of a bummer for them but both families had kids so it kind of seemed like a lot of people. Haley was pretty tired by the end of the party and was cranky so I held her on my lap. Although, as soon as the neighbors left she got down and played nicely until it was time to go. She may have more of an introvert personality because all the people made her cranky.

By the time we got back from the block party, it was almost four so we decided to just keep Haley up from a nap. Emily ended up taking a second nap at home while David played with Haley and I made a meal for a girl I know from Monday night Bible study who just had a baby. At six we had two couples from church come for our bi-weekly game night. They are the same two couples that have come the past two times. It was so easy this time because Haley was so tired. She ate a couple bites of dinner and went straight to bed. Emily stayed up a little later and then also went to bed. Last time we had game night Haley took a while going to sleep so this time was a lot better.

Haleyism:
When we were at the splash pad yesterday David was playing with Haley in the water, I sat out with Emily because I thought the water was too cold. Anyways, Haley had come and dried off and then told us she wanted to play again. David had also dried off and had his shirt on again. We told her she could play one more time. She said, "Daddy play with Haley?" He said he would and started walking towards the water. Then she said, "Daddy take his shirt off?" Haha, she seemed to think that he couldn't really seriously play with her if he still had his shirt on.

Emilyism:
Emily ate hardly anything for lunch and dinner, I'm not sure what the deal is. I think maybe her teeth hurt her or something.