One more sleep…

Saturday is gymnastics day for all the kids. Because Braden had been sick the night before we skipping gym for him, but there is only one of me so I still had to take him with. Braden wanted to go to gym with Finn and I had to explain why he couldn’t, I even had Finn telling me I should let since “he very, very wants to jump in the ball pit.” 

After gymnastics we headed home to eat lunch and nap. Then I got all the kids ready to go to Eli’s (Braden and Finn’s school friend) birthday party. It was interesting since I could see all the parents looking at me and wondering if I was the mama. Finn has the habit of calling me mama, in the most inappropriate times and then laughing while I try and explain that’s not my name.

Saturday we spent watching Wall-E. Kids into bed and ready to go to sleep after Tyler came to visit me. Finally in a peaceful sleep when I hear “rara, wake up.” I literally woke up, jumped and said, “whoooooaaaa!” I was freaked out. Then he told me his cheeks were sore, I cautiously asked, like you feel like you want to puke. Then prayed please say no…

I think he just wanted to sleep on the couch – he likes that. Once I got him down he slept happily. I didn’t. I had the monitor in my room and about two hours later Finn woke up crying, but settled down just after I woke up. Then at 7.30 am he bounced into my room all awake and happy. At that moment I really wished he knew how to make coffee! However when I asked if he wanted to just snuggle for awile he agreed, then after 10 minutes decided he wanted to get himself ready. That brought me 20 minutes of extra sleep. But I realized I would have to wake up and face the day, and the best way to do that is definitely with pancakes! Yummy!

We waited around the house until their parents arrived home around 12pm or so. And then I took a nap J

Another one?!

Friday night brought on movie night (Toy Story 3) for boys and I, and a luau for Annabel. It also brings Tamryn and our planned rusk making session. After putting all the kids to bed Tamryn and I started our rusk venture.

Firstly the recipe called for self-rising flour, since I hadn’t checked this fact out correctly, I only had all-purpose flour. Of course I have no idea if it’s the same thing so I asked my dear friend – Google. Google gave me a recipe for converting it. The rest of the recipe was in metric measurement (seriously America can you just catch up already?) Since we were using a measuring cup set, and a measuring spoon set, yup – Google was called upon again. We opened up all the app and pages we could to find conversions for ml to cups and mg to tablespoons and teaspoons.

The recipe seemed to turn out well, but still not OUMA rusk yummy. But no fears we have about three more recipes to try!

It’s finally bed time, after a long fun night. But not so soon, of course Braden decided he wanted to get sick. So I had to wash the second set of little boy sheets in two days, set up a make shift couch bed and then finally got to crawl into bed. 

Playing mommy…

I offered to babysit all three kids for three days…sounds crazy huh? Well maybe it was a little but I survived, and it was fun. Dave and Amanda wanted to go to New York for the weekend, and I figured it would be an interesting experience…so why not. I’ll tell you why not –

The plan was for Dave and Amanda to leave early on Thursday morning; I would take all the kids to school and then go to school myself. Finn woke up that night puking. Amanda cancelled her flight so she could stay with him during the day while I went to school and would leave later. Since either way I would miss part of my school day I offered to just stay the whole time with him. Plus if she stayed she would have missed the game they were planning to go see. And as I put it, I’ve been puked on before. (I have a new found respect for mothers, by the way.)

My morning was spent with one sick boy who wanted to go to school and one healthy boy who didn’t want to. We settled for both at home playing in the basement, and sleeping on the couch. Thursday night was a chilled night.

Friday morning everyone seemed much better. I took AJ to school and the boys to the public museum. I had brought lunch for the boys, but they asked if they could have a treat if they ate well. I agreed (I still had two days and wanted to ensure cooperation.) After choosing an ice cream each, and after we paid for them, the boys remarked, “mommy and daddy never let us have the ice creams.” Great, now I’m an accessory.

As I was waiting for Finn to finish his treat, suddenly Finn informed me of his desperate need for the potty. Ugh. So, we made our way to the loo. I put Finn in one corner as far away from the toilets as possible, put Braden on the toilet and stand in between where I can see them both. One kid needs help wiping (gross I know) and one needs help with the dripping ice cream all over himself.

After managing to get everything and everyone together we headed home. Nap time…for the boys.