Okay, I know that I was hoping to blog on a daily basis, but we did not get home until 11 last night and I was too tired. It's not much earlier today, but an hour makes a lot of difference.
I spent yesterday cleaning Danica's room. Danica wanted to help, but everytime I put something in the give away pile (i.e. Happy Meal Toys or stocking stuffers), she wanted to keep them. I eventually put "The Princess and the Frog" in the DVD player down stairs and she was out of my hair. In the middle of cleaning, I ran out of trash bags, so we took a short trip to Wally World. I definately bought more than just trash bags, but I didn't go overboard because I just wanted to get back to cleaning. I did buy flip flops for Danica since she has been begging for them for the past 2 weeks. I realized while we were at Alabama Adventure on Thursday, that it'd be much easier if she had shoes that she could just slip on. While at the store, I asked Troy if he wanted a pair and he said "no". We got home and he changed his mind. We'll go on Monday probably.
Back to cleaning...I moved everything except her big dresser and I discovered something about my daughter. She's as much of a pack rat as Troy, but she doesn't just keep things that are hers, she takes things that belong to other people. I found toy cars and more GI Joes in her room than Troy's. I also found 4 flashlights. I was looking for a flashlight a few weeks ago and now I know what happened to them. She takes little toys to bed with her at times. All of these little toys ended up behind/under her bed. There was everything from dinosaurs to tiny stuffed animals to necklaces. I also found 8 tubes of chapstick. 8!!!! I would keep buying it over the winter becaues I couldn't find them when I needed them. I left them in her room, but gave her a special box to put them in (a tupperware container). During this whole time, Troy was either watching TV or playing a video game on his DS. I know, I'm a terrible mom for allowing my son to watch TV all day. Hey, it doesn't happen often and he was entertained. By the time I was done with her room, I needed to get a shower and get ready for the ball game. Danica wanted to get a shower also, so she got one first. She also got dried off and dressed by herself. Richard came home a little early and we headed to the Baron's Baseball game, or at least tried to. Danica has a certain pair of shoes that are her favorites. We can currently only find one of these 2 shoes. After 25 minutes of looking and a complete meltdown, I finally got her into another pair of shoes. I don't know how, but sometime calm, really calm, works just fine. Our friends Matt and Kendal went with us to the game. It was Church night and they were able to get tickets for $5 each. The Baron's lost but we had a great time. It was Star Wars night, and Fireworks night. Troy shook Darth Vader's hand and Danica gave a Sand person a hug. The other big excitement, besides ice cream and Fireworks, was the huge bugs that divebombed us. They were on suicide missions with everyone except Danica. Everytime one came near her she would tell us how "Cute" it was. Looking up into the lights, she said "Look at all of the bugs. God made them all. Isn't it awesome!" We couldn't allow her to see anyone killing one of God's creatures. The ice cream was a mess, literally. It was so hot, that the ice cream melted faster that Troy or Danica (who was sharing with me) could eat. I ended up "cleaning" up both cones but licking the drips. It was such a tough job, but someone had to do it. :) The fireworks were terrific! I thought that Danica may not like to loudness, but I was wrong. She was pretty upset when they were over and asked until we were on the interstate if we were going to see more firewords. We really had a great night.
Today was Troy's end of the year soccer thingy. The whole league was there from the little guys to the u16 group. Troy's team, the Blue Flames, was the only team with all 8 players there and all in uniform. The kids were asked to be in uniform so that a league picture could be taken for the paper. The kids had pizza, chips and drinks and then were called up to get their trophies. After the ceremony, everyone went outside to play on some inflateables, eat snowcones and cotton candy, and get balloon animals. They all seemed to have a great time. Danica participated in everything that the other kids did. Troy sword fought with another kid with balloon swords and popped his. He didn't care though. Danica's balloon cat broke about 3 minutes after she got it, so we had to stand in line for another. It was another fun day. We got home about 3:30 and I just wanted to take a nap, but that was not in the cards since Matt and Kendal came over for a playdate for their dog, Willow. Willow is an only dog for the first time in her life since here playmate died about 3 months ago. Willow has been coming over with Matt and Kendal so that she can play with Tink (and now Onyx). We set it up because Tink was so lonely after Belle died in January. The once a week playdates were not enough for Tink and we, eventually, got Onyx. Now all of the dogs play on Saturdays, while we play games and have dinner. Troy loves playing Apples to Apples with us. We play the big person version not the one for kids and he does really well with understanding the words. We have to explain some of the people and event cards, but he does great. Apples to Apples is a great game for vocabulary deveopment for kids. There's my education plug for the day!
Anyway, it is now 10:40 and I am sleepy. My allergies have been bothering me since I started cleaning, and my eyes are swollen and itchy. Maybe that's a good reason to not clean. Better yet, hire someone else to do it! Now that's an idea!
I hope everyone is having a great weekend! We sure are. NOthing planned for tomorrow, yet.
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