Costumes and Coloring

We have had a few days off and a few days of changing things up since I last blogged.

Last weekend we were at a seminar so the kids spent Thursday through Saturday at Vidalia's house.

Monday I taught the kids a joy school lesson with Lillie and Sam instead of doing kindergarten that day. We had a great time.

Tuesday we did stretches and games on the yoga mats. Amy made up a game where we run across the mats and throw a block when we get to the futon. If it goes all the way over the futon, we get a point. Suddenly the rules were changing and people were getting hundreds of thousands of points. I don't quite understand her point scale, but no one got upset. So it was all good. Then the kids went outside to play in the snow with Daddy. We never got back to closing routine.

Yesterday was family flop. It seems like at least once a week Amy falls asleep instead of having school. It's dreamy (no pun intended) for me when all three kids sleep in the middle of the day.

Today we are back in the groove.

Mom class was coloring on some big Spiderman coloring pages that Aunt Deborah gave us. Amy kept telling me I was so good at coloring. It was cute.

The girls chose a combination of costumes, instruments, parade and walk for a combined activity. So there we went around the block all decked out. Pretty awesome. Amy was a dog in her Clifford costume. Noel was a ladybug with Chinese pants. I had on a dress with fancy gloves and hat. I was the "bee's" owner. Noel kept calling herself a bee. She said cute things about being an owner who was always nice. There was some puddle jumping, some skipping, some waving to passing cars, and some owner-carrying-the-ladybug. At one point we saw a man who warned us that the dogs at the end of the block were aggressive and had almost gotten shot a few minutes before on the soccer field for growling at someone. That was convincing enough. We turned around and walked home the other way. Back on our street, we saw the man again, this time in his car, following the dogs. They were on our street. By the time we got home, they had mosied over and were in front of our next door neighbor's house. Soon after we came in they were on our porch. I was glad we were safely home.

Now we are cleaning up our big mess. Fun day.