Chloe comes to play

TUESDAY we had a pretty full day.  David left early in the morning because he had to work and the girls and I were up by eight and at the gym by nine.  I brought my stuff along to shower so I was all ready for reading time at 10:30 at the educational toy store down the road.  All of the books were about the fourth of July and fireworks, it made me wonder how the girls will do with them this year, I'll guess we'll see tomorrow!  After reading time we went home and grabbed our bathing suits and lunch and then headed over to a friend's house to swim.

My friend is Ellen Oglesbee, she does MOPS with me and invites all of the planning team from MOPs to her house to swim once a week.  She has two girls, one is almost four and the other one was born in March.  They also have three dogs which was kind of scary for Haley but the pool is fenced in and the dogs were on the outside of the fence so she was fine once she realized they couldn't get her.  I put the girls in their suits and they swam for maybe five minutes before Emy started to act cranky and hungry so I pulled out our lunch.  As soon as Haley saw the food she came right over.  It worked out because everyone else ate maybe twenty minutes later so we had the table and chairs to ourselves until they all started eating.

After lunch I held Emily at the steps and Haley played on the steps of the pool and I talked with other moms.  The only downside to the time was that Haley asked to use the bathroom three times!  I wish she would just go in the pool, oops, did I say that outloud?  She hadn't booed yet that day so I didn't want her to go in the grass because I was afraid she would start booing so I had to take her inside.  The second time she had to go we walked through the kitchen on the way to the bathroom (it's just on the way, no avoiding it) and there was Ellen's husband making a sandwich for lunch...AWKWARD!  I guess he comes home for lunch, nice to know, haha.  I was holding Haley and saying 'don't go yet, don't go yet' so I kind of smiled and said 'hi' and went on to the bathroom.  On our trip back outside he was gone so that was nice, haha.

We stayed at the pool until 1 and then everyone started to head out so we went home for naps.  The girls went right down and slept for almost three hours which was nice because then I could work on cleaning.  David got home right after they had woken up and I was feeding them a snack.  Then I made a dessert for small group while David played with the girls.  Our van needs its timing belt and serpentine belt changed so after I was finished with the dessert we dropped off our van at the mechanics place.  Haley was so excited to drive in Daddy's car, you would have thought he was driving the magic school bus or something.  When we got home David started feeding the girls dinner while I ran and picked up the baby-sitter.  Then David and I headed to small group.  When we came home Ella said that the girls had done great.  Apparently Emily had eaten a bunch of a hot dog for dinner and Haley ate tons of applesauce.  She said they went to bed really easy.  When she told Haley it was time for bed Haley said, "obey Ella, listen and obey."  Those were the instructions we gave her before we left, haha.  She ended up rocking Emily to sleep but she said she was out in minutes.

This morning I heard the girls talking in their room and the first thing Haley said when I walked in there was, "I had fun with Ella."  I guess Haley is pretty clear headed in the morning because it took me a couple minutes to realize what she was talking about, haha.  David was home all day so it really felt like a Saturday. We took our time getting up and then David made us pancakes for breakfast.  We took showers and got the girls dressed and then decided to run some errands.  First we went to a couple places to look at bistro sets.  My parents bought us a bistro set for our anniversary so we are still looking for the right one.  We have looked a lot online but this was our first time to see some in real life.  We found a couple maybes I think.  On our way home we stopped at a hardware store to see if they could cut us a piece of glass for an end table we got from a storage unit.  It is in pretty good condition but it's supposed to have glass on top and it didn't.  The hardware store didn't have thick enough glass but I grabbed a couple paint samples on our way out because I want to paint our door.

When we got home I started lunch for the girls since they were starting to get cranky.  Around eleven Meg Freeman dropped of Chloe Watson to play because her parents are in Houston right now with baby Claire.  We gave Chloe some lunch and then we all five loaded up in the Honda to drive David downtown to do a homeless ministry he does on Wednesdays.  Then I took the girls back uptown to meet a lady at Wal-mart who was buying some curtains from me.  Then we went to Target to find a bathing suit for me.  At first Haley and Chloe wanted to sit in the back of the cart and that made my life super easy but eventually they wanted to get out and play and that was a little harder because they both tend to wander off.  I told them to hold hands and stay with me but that made them silly and eventually they started running off.  They ran off one time and I brought them back and gave them a stern talking to.  The next time Chloe started to run off and she was calling Haley to come with her (to go see some toys) but Haley stayed right next to me by the cart.  I was so proud of her!  Way to go Haley, peer pressure?  What's that?

After Target we went back downtown and picked up David from his thing.  Then we went to the courthouse since it was right there and picked up Emily's birth certificate.  I decided we might as well have that thing and we've got to start thinking about getting a passport made for that baby.  Then we came home and put the girls down for naps.  Chloe slept in the guest room and Emily and Haley chatted it up in their room until they finally dozed off.  While they slept I finished my sweeping and mopping.  Haley woke up after about two hours and she and David went in and woke up Chloe because I didn't want her to sleep too long.  Chloe and Haley played in the den while I made my dish for the potluck.  Emily woke up almost an hour after the big girls.

When it was time for church we all loaded in the Honda and headed over.  Chloe knows everyone at church pretty good so we had lots of help getting the girls dinner and then they played with the other kids afterward. Emily got passed around a lot but she would do her 'want' signal anytime she saw me.  When she sees something she wants she squeezes her little hands together, we'll have to get a video or something.  While we were there I got a text from Melanie Watson saying that they made it home from the Houston Hospital.  They live really close to where we were meeting for church so we took Chloe home on our way home.  She was so excited to see her parents, it was really sweet.  When we got home we fed the girls a snack.  Emily has been getting up to eat the past couple of nights so I wanted to make sure her tummy was nice and full.  We are out of applesauce and yogurt so I pulled out a can of cranberry sauce that we didn't use at Thanksgiving.  Emily was not impressed but Haley ate several bites, haha.  The only other thing we had on hand that I knew Emily would fill up on was ice cream so we pulled that out.  She and Haley ate a big bowl between the two of them so hopefully Emily will sleep.

Haleyism:
Haley was playing a game tonight at church where she was pretending to sleep.  It was pretty much the best game in the world, complete silence and she was just laying there with her eyes closed, haha.

Emilyism:
Chloe loved to try and pick up Emily but Emily did not enjoy it and was pretty good at telling her.  She would usually screech and then start to cry.

Chloe and Ella having a snack.  You can see the end table behind them without glass, oh boy.