October 23, 2006

Well Happy Monday y'all. We had a very nice visit in the Springs. I forgot my camera, so as Jeremy says (sarcastically) it's like the weekend never happened. But I did take my camera to Laura's Family Fun Birthday Celebration last night:







7:10 Drop off. Now, it looked like I wasn't dressed, but I was in fact wearing my yoga pants workout outfit (stay tuned to find out why).

7:15 Breakfast - apricots. And Becky, she didn't bat an eyelash at them and ate them right up.

7:30 Down for nap with bottle. I got Jeremy and Alex out the door for preschool. I think we've finally figured out a system that will work for everyone. Jeremy will take Alex to preschool early. Alex will not hate going early because we bought him a special new kid k'nex toy, not as a bribe (well, not exactly) but because early drop off is very lonely and boring and it will give him something interesting to do.

8:10 Ariel woke up just in time for our Fabulous Adventure™ - doing a stroller fitness class at the mall. Right as I was backing out my driveway, I notice a man on a bike in front of my house. He wasn't moving so I thought maybe his dog was right behind my huge car. But no, it was our crazy ex-(yes EX) tenet. He had forgotten Jeremy's phone number YET again. Have I mentioned I'm glad he's our EX-tenet now?

8:30 Get to mall. I loaded Adam and Ariel in the double stroller, then we found our way to the meeting place in the mall. The class was pretty intense. It was a lot of resistance training, like lunging and squatting. And running up escalators and then lunging and squatting. It was a pretty hard workout for my couch-potato body. Surprisely, both the kids did really well. The only hitch was that Adam peeded his pants a bit and I didn't bring a change of clothes for him since it's been so long since he's had an accident. I took off his wet clothes and put on one of Ariel's diapers for modesty.

10:10 After class, I went to Old Navy to try and get the to give my $5 on a purchase I made last Friday and forgot my coupon (yes, I bought MORE Halloween stuff!) Wow, all I can say is they really made me work for my money, the transaction took about 10 minutes. Ariel also slammed a bottle in under 2 minutes.

10:30 Left the mall, Ariel fell asleep in the car.

10:50 Got home. I was able to transfer Ariel to the crib. I took a shower, then we ate lunch.

12:00 Ariel woke up. She had sweet potatoes for lunch. I tried to give her one of Adam's spaghetti o's but she flatly refused. Several times.

12:25 Ariel pooped. I changed her diaper.

12:30 Double header. Apparently Ariel wasn't done pooping and pooped some more. I can only imagine what such a sitution would do to dad if he were babysitting....

12:40 Left to pick up Alex from school.

1:05 Pick up. Both Alex and his teacher confirmed that he had a good day and liked his new kid k'nex set very much.

1:20 Stopped by Safeway for some Jamba Juice.

1:40 Stopped by the toy store to buy baby doll strollers for the boys. See, I kinda said I would do the stroller class again tomorrow, but I'll have 3 kids. I thought that Alex and/or Adam might have fun pushing strollers with me. Ariel had a bottle in the car on the way home.

2:15 Got home. Ariel took another nap. While she slept, I designed her birthday invitation. Pretty cute, huh?



Those are Baby Einstein characters at the bottom, that's Ariel's birthday party theme.

4:15 Ariel woke up.

4:30 Pick up.