Through the Trees, originally uploaded by cheryl.
Today was an early day in our house. We all got up around 6:45 this morning, all of us except for Sawyer. Little stinker. Any other day he'd be up chattering away at the crack of dawn. Today he decided to take a little siesta and sleep in (and we paid for it tonight, when he didn't want to fall asleep until just a few minutes ago - and he's been in bed since 9 o'clock)!
Daddy got up around 6 o'clock to get Xander up and take him to the bathroom (heaven help us, we're trying to finish our potty training by tackling nights, but that's a whole other post in itself). We all rolled out about 45 minutes later. Connor did so quite unwillingly. He told me he didn't want to go to school, "not so early" anyway.
Pappy arrived bright and early with doughnuts to keep an eye on the twins since both Daddy and I had things going on this morning. I had an early morning doctor's appointment (annual exam type of thing), but I was home by a little after 9 o'clock. Pappy had already taken the boys and Buster on a stroller walk through the neighborhood. And that's impressive, for us to have accomplished that much by that time of the day. Sometimes the sleepiest ones of us are still just rolling out of bed at that point.
With quite a bit of time on our hands before Connor's school ended at 2:35, I decided to take the boys up to the local park for a little while. The heat advisories have finally been lifted, and it actually felt pretty decent outside.
The boys like the park. They like to climb the little rock climbing wall on the back of the play set, to go down the slide and to swing. They also like to run around terrorizing the other children in attempts to steal their sippy cups of juice. It's an adventure, to say the least, keeping tabs on both of them and making sure they're not pushing into smaller kids or trying to steal food and drinks out of unsuspecting hands. But they did pretty well, especially after I finally gave in and let them have the Capri Sun I had packed for the ride home. Pretty sure they were thirsty on the way back, but that's not my fault. One sugary drink per park outing, that's my limit.
We love having the park so close. It's a nice place to take them, where they can interact with other kids and learn some social rules (like not stealing food or drinks) and get away from the house for a change. And it was a good way to spend our last day of freedom before Early Start begins tomorrow!
A few more photos are here.