Cheering for LU and playing outside

Thursday started off with women's Bible study.  David left early for an overnight trip to New Jersey so I brought the girls along with me.  They did fairly well for the first hour or so but started to get restless towards the end.  Emily actually played with the big kids for most of the time.  Every so often she'd crawl over to the moms and I'd hold her and feed her some of my muffin.  In the last thirty minutes our hostess, Meg, told the kids she would turn on a Dora for them.  Haley was so excited.  Until Ms. Meg couldn't find a Dora episode on her Netflix so she pulled up some dog cartoon.  Haley was pretty mad.  So mad that she ran over to the TV and hit the screen.  Kind of embarrassing...for her mother that is.  I took her into their bathroom and gave her a spanking (as discreetly as possible) and then she came out and said sorry to Meg for hitting her TV.  I don't think she minded too much because she gave her a hug and said it was okay.  I don't think she would have given her a hug if she was mad at her...hopefully.

After Bible study we came home and had lunch and then I put the girls down for naps.  Well, I put Emily down and Haley played around for a long time.  I would say for almost two hours.  I would have just let her get up except I really wanted her to take a nap because we were going to be up late in the evening.  She finally dozed off around three and then I woke her up at 4:30.  I took the kids outside and they played on toys for a bit before dinner.  Julianne had to work in the evening so she left around 5:30 and Todd got home from work a couple minutes after she left.  I made spaghetti for dinner, Emily loved it but Haley refused to eat sauce on her pasta.  After dinner we skyped David for a little bit and then the girls and I left to go to the LeTourneau boy's soccer game.

The head boy's soccer coach goes to our church and he said that Thursday night was one of the biggest games of the season.  They were playing our school's rival ETBU.  I brought along the girl's little folding chairs and a chair for me and we set up near the bleachers behind some students.  A bunch of other people from church came so we weren't alone.  Emily spent most of the game standing on her chair and Haley spent a lot of the game working on her chair's placement.  I thought we probably wouldn't be able to stay for the whole game because it didn't start until eight but the girls did really well so we ended up staying for the whole thing!  It was a super exciting game, we won 2 to 1.  We headed home around 10:15 and Emily fell asleep on the way and they both went down as soon we got home.

FRIDAY was a pretty slow day.  The girls both slept in after their late night.  Haley was up by nine and Emily slept until 9:30.  We got up and had breakfast and got dressed.  Amanda Caldwell had texted and asked if Haley wanted to come play for a bit in the morning so Emily and I dropped her off at their house and then went and got some groceries at Wal-mart.  Then we came home and put the groceries away and then went back to the Caldwells for lunch.  Amanda had also invited us for lunch afterwards.  Haley ate a ton of macaroni and cheese and all of her pineapple.  Emily of course ate everything we gave her and then afterwards crawled under the chair she had been in and ate the remnants off of the floor.

We stayed at the Caldwells until about 1 and then headed home.  Haley was starting to get emotional as we left, really she just didn't want to leave but I think she was also tired because she fell asleep as soon as we got home.  I let her nap for just short of two hours but that must have been too long because she had a really hard time falling asleep tonight!  After naps Julianne and I took all of the kids outside and the around in her little car and said 'whoa' over and over.  David got home a little after six, the girls were so excited to see him.  He said as soon as Haley ran to him she said, "do you have your Ipad?"  Oh my.  Julianne made some delicious chicken chili for dinner, Emy ate tons.  David had brought donuts back from New Jersey so we had those for dessert.

After dinner David and I went to the gym and put the girls in childcare while we went for a walk outside.  When we went to pick them up they were doing walking practice with Emily, good luck with that haha.  We brought them home and fed them some yogurt for snack and then put them to bed.  Emy went down fairly easily but Haley stalled for a while.  Eventually she went to sleep around 9:45!

Haleyism:
Today Julianne asked Haley if she had to go potty because she was doing a little dance and she said "No, I just went to the potty...It's true!"

Emilyism:
Emily took a couple more steps today.  Her longest record is just two and she still definitely prefers crawling.

Playing outside together in the car

Emily playing in her room, also you can see some of David's hairy leg

 

This is a video of Emily with a mitten that was infatuated with tonight.  I think this one ends ugly though...