April 12, 2007

There's my cake. Isn't in bee-u-tea-ful? In all honesty, I could have hacked this cake before the class, but I've already learned some nice tips and short cuts and ways for making it look better, so I'm glad I'm doing this. And Jeremy was such a baby about taking the cake to work. This was the design we were supposed to do (it was my first transfer using piping gel, see that was a cool thing to learn) and Jeremy thought it was too dumb to take to work. Now, I did spent about 3 hours on the cake and I wanted someone to enjoy, but preferable not only me. I told Jeremy to tell his coworkers that his DUMB wife is taking a DUMB cake decorating class and to just eat the DUMB cake. How hard is that? But yeah, he eventually agreed to take it after I threatened to eat the whole thing.

7:00 Miss Ariel arrived.

7:40 Changed a poopy.

7:45 I took Adam to his swim lesson. Today was MUCH better. I got in the water with him and he swam between me and his instructor. He didn't cry or even ask if it was time to get out. Now we just have to work on his form. He's still using his arms too much and not kicking enough. But I was very excited at how well it went today, it's not fun watching him be miserable.

8:20 Jeremy drove my car with Alex and Ariel to the pool, we all went home.

9:15 Ellen once again came up with a great plan - Pump it Up.

9:45 But first, we met for coffee. Mmmmmm coffee. And then Ellen bought her kids cookies so I had to buy them a cookie and I bought them some Naked Juice and then Ellen had to buy her kids a smoothie.

10:15 Realized it was a bit late and left the coffee place.

10:30 Pump it up. MUCH better than the bouncy place last week. Not nearly as crowded and no big kids (other than Ted and Alex the monsters - more on that later.)

And not just bouncy tents, also cars:



Ariel liked getting in, shutting the door, opening the door, getting out. Repeat repeat.



But what Ariel REALLY liked was the bouncy slide. As you can see from the video, she was doing this all by herself (well, not the getting up, but the getting down). We must have done it 20 times. We went in a bouncy tent too, but she decided that the exit ramp was another, smaller slide so she wouldn't stay in the tent.



11:25 And then the monster story - a woman came up to Ellen to tell her that Alex and Ted were kicking her daughter in the face. Alex didn't even deny it. They were going up the big slide and so was the girl and they just kicked her out of the way, and later pushed her down the slide. Very distressing to hear this. Earlier we had seen Alex climb over a boy going up the slide, but that didn't seem malicious, he just wasn't thinking.

Oy, I didn't come up with great consequences. Immediately we pulled the boys off the equipment and put them on a bench. And when they tried to sneak off, I used my scary voice across the room and they got right back on (I think I scared Ellen too). And Alex asked for a few privileges like having Ted over, which were also denied.

12:00 We still met for lunch, though Ted opted to go home and stay with his Dad. We went to Noodles (well, we were going to go to Noodles and Wahoo's but Wahoo's was too busy so I didn't eat) and kids shared a pesto cavatappi and then Ariel fell asleep in my lap.

1:00 Got home, Ariel went to sleep in the crib.

2:45 Ariel woke up.

2:50 Changed a poopy.

3:00 Ran errands, mailed some packages, went to the store. I actually bought food for tonight, we'll have a Red Lentil Dal soup and things to dip in hummus. And of course the kids had cookies and Ariel only ate half. Then she dug through my purse and found my cell phone and played with that for a while.

4:00 Got home.

4:30 Pick up.