Saffs: what doing?

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Mr. 9 and Mr. 7's piano recital

Christmas morning

Finishing The Christmas Carol on Christmas morning

Cinnamon rolls and egg casserole - A Christmas morning tradition

And special appearance made by Uncle K (who was able to tame the cranky Mr. 1 so we may not let him leave)

Self-disproving statement

Mr. 7: "He needs to give it back! It's not his turn!"
Me: "Please calm down. We'll figure this out. He's only 3."
Mr. 3: "That's right. I don't know better."

Why is it that when the boys could sleep all day the first one is up at 5:30, the second at 6, and the third at 6:30? And then when they have to be up early to get to church on time everyone wants to sleep?

Although Mr. 7, our early bird, shockingly slept until 8am this morning!

What a difference a day makes

Thursday we were not doing well. The boys ignored my requests to be ready for school at 9am and were still downstairs "making their beds" when I dragged them upstairs and away from their discussion about Minecraft. Then right as we were finally getting started we heard a crash and Mr. 1 had managed to pull an entire pan of granola off the counter and was happily sitting in the middle of the disaster having a snack. While I cleaned this up I told the boys to get started on their writing prompt. "But Daddy forgot to write one!" So I told them to start with "Oh no Micah! What have you done?" and write from there.

The day continued with general discontent, including a tantrum by Mr. 3 at the park who refused to come home until I promised to make him hot chocolate (he did not get hot chocolate but did get dragged home). No one wanted to finish school, including me. Mr. 1 woke up right as I finished getting Mr. 3 down for a nap. We were late to swimming lessons. I was about to give up on the whole day when Mr. 3 asked if we could have a pumpkin bread party after I told him we couldn't have cookies. What is a pumpkin bread party? I asked. You eat pumpkin bread and listen to music and have a dance party. Yes, we could do that. And it turned the day around - we even made cookies in the end which was our Advent activity of the day.

Friday we had to be out of the house early. After dropping Mr. 3 off at preschool, we stopped to have bagels and all three of the boys were cheerful and helpful. We went to the library and I told them to pick out some books they hadn't checked out before (Mr. 7 really picks out the same 30 or so books in shifts - all on robots, space, cross sections, or Star Wars). Mr. 7 found some cool books on inventions. Mr. 9 checked out books on ancient civilizations. We went home and I told them that we would work on a project rather than school and they spent the morning reading books and working diligently on a secret project. Everyone had a good time at the MFA, we chatted with Nana and Papa, and we even had a fun dinner with friends. And now we have 11 days off and together!