Kendal has only been 5 for a week but she already seems older to me. Yesterday I encountered another old moment when the girl up the street asked Kendal to come over and play. The next thing I knew Kendal was on her bike halfway up the street following the girl to her house. For a few minutes I was one of those parents who lets their kids roam the neighborhood. How did this happen overnight?
Kendal and Becks really like to make airplanes, helicopters and rocket ships out of their blocks. Here they are (in Cam's crib) with their designed airplanes - you can't see the "wheels" from this angle, dang.
Kendal had a playdate last week...here is Repunzel, Repunzel and Prince...I don't think the Prince is into princesses just yet.
On the way out the door last week I was really in a hurry to get to school on time so I was telling everyone to get their shoes on STAT. With Cam in my arms and running around making sure I had everything I kept telling Becks I would help him put his shoes on in a minute. A few minutes later I looked over and Kendal was helping Becks put his shoes on. I had to take a picture to document which of course only made Kendal more late.
You know when you have one of those days where nothing seems to go right?! That was my Friday. Thursday night I was up half the night with Beckett when finally at 4am he said his ear hurt - awesome an ear infection in the middle of the night. Miraculously I got him back to sleep but at 6:30 Cam is ready to rock and roll. I get up, come downstairs and a dog has not only peed but pooped in the house!!! WHAT?! They haven't done this in years (except when Rusty was on steroids which is another story in itself). I clean that up and get breakfast going. I figure now would be a good time to start making dinner for 2 friends who recently had some unfortunate things happen, so bring on the cooking. As I'm cooking I realize I am 3 ingredients short, time to go to the store. As I'm getting ready to go to the store with the 3 kids Becks decides to throw the football, it hits the plates on the wall and they come crashing down luckily only 1 breaks - time to vacuum. I go to the store, finish the cooking, drop off the dinners and now to the doctor (which wouldn't have been that bad if I wasn't just there the day before for Camden's well check).
I have been trying to get the kids to stay in their beds at night and in the early hours of the morning so I decided to incentivize with a sticker chart. On Friday in between breakfast and the store I figure now would be a good time to create their own charts well, they did. Only instead of doing 1 sticker per day they did all the stickers all over the place which totally defeated the purpose of the chart. However, I will try again only next time I will be paying more attention.
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