adventurers gonna adventure

What's it been, like three weeks since I last put you through a full blown weekend recap? And, let me guess - you're going through weekend recap withdrawals?

No? Stop typing right now?

... it won't be that bad. I mostly promise.

I believe Friday night set the stage nicely and should give you an idea of just how lively our weekend was when both Simon and I were in the mood to do something, "fun and spontaneous with the kids" and thought ice cream afterwards sounded like a nice treat and so .... we found ourselves closing down the Costco snack bar.

toe touch.

hand/keg stand.

I know. But there is only so much you can do when it's frigid and dark outside. And by frigid I mean 50 degrees because I'm a reptile.

Simon has been working (and working) on a presentation for an upcoming conference and it involves lots of concentration and graphs and excel spreadsheets and many technical languages I do not speak. After a couple of hours of trying to put the finishing touches on said presentation while the younger kids napped and the older kids were their usual quiet and docile selves he frustratingly declared that he did not know how I managed to blog and I smiled and then laughed because photos of children + run on sentences galore does not a complicated presentation make. But, Simon was busy doing that. Had to be recapped!!

Something spicier? We did get rid of a desk on Craigslist. The two sentence listing was flagged for being inappropriate (oh-kay?) and removed right before the new owners came to pick it up and our life suddenly felt a little bit edgy. And I'm now addicted to getting rid of things. Our living room feels so much bigger and now I'm wondering if we can get by with seating for a mere three people in the living area? Company can make themselves at home on the floor, right? Or maybe perch themselves on one of our more aesthetically pleasing pieces of furniture ...

... but then she might kill you.

The first thing she does when she wakes up is lunges for it and then gnaws on that rubber star for many minutes before Theo pulls her around the room.

Circus!! errrrrrrrday.

Okay, let's cut to the fun stuff.

This cute shop generously sent the kids these matchy-match shirts and you better believe I pounced on the opportunity to TRY to get a semi-sweet photo of the kids together.

Tried.

And Tried. {did someone throw an invisible ball at Theo's face? why?}

And tried.

Whatever.

Motherhaters.

And maybe it's just me or maybe it's Sebastian's haircut but suddenly he and Julia are looking so much alike.

These two and their hate/love/hate relationship. Twill baffle me forever.

Theodore and the case of the third wheel.

And I have to include some cliché photos of the little kids on the swings.

Normally the boys hate the swings but both Julia and Phoebe love to swing so I was shocked when Theo frantically signed, "please" (the sign for "more" - always 89 steps behind around here) and happily swung his little heart out.

You didn't know you were signing up for run on sentences about my progeny on swings today, did you?!

And for the grand finale I have to include this quality phone snap (maybe you saw it on Simon's insta) but Simon was swinging with Theo ... happy, happy ....

... when he decided to pull a little "flip backwards for a second - it will be funny" stunt and ended up completely falling off ...

... they were both totally fine.

Theo was just really angry and embarrassed because just out of the shot was a dad swinging his cute little daughter.

Okay, you had to be there. But I'm still laughing and I'm not a laugher.

Other highlights:

+ I finally started Gilmore Girls. Love it. Simon thought I said I was going to watch Golden Girls while I worked out and he was thoroughly confused but just nodded and said, "enjoy!"

+ A fellow resident family had us over for brunch on Sunday (so nice!) and we made the idiotic mistake of bringing grocery store donuts (we are thee worst guests, never have us over) because I always think they look so good. I have to admit that they didn't hold a candle to the hospital cafeteria donuts and so we can add that to the (currently empty) list of thing I will miss about residency.

+ if you're driving around any St. Louis residential areas and are suddenly overwhelmed with the potent aroma of generic baby Vicks ... know that you are in our vicinity. Sebastian raided one of Julia's many purses of trinkets and hoarded crap during his "nap" in their room and found a stolen bottle and took it upon himself to christen their walls, their toys, and her bare mattress. The smell has permeated absolutely everything. Fun fun.

Three highlights. You've been punished enough.

I'm done! I swear it.