double trouble mom

Its been a pretty low key week for our househol.

The only big excitment is that I’m getting a new washer and dryer next week and I can’t wait.  Ryan took the old ones out lastnight and placed them in the garage so I can post on Craigslist.  The girls were a little nervous when Ryan told him he was going to move the house with the hand cart.  Emily doesn’t want to move and Erika said daddy couldn’t move the house with that thing.

This weekend Ryan is on call so the girls and I might head to BEM and hang with family.  Though I’m not 100% sure we will go.  One of the kids who goes to DC before and after school has the dreaded H1N1 and so with my luck one of us would get sick come Fri or when up there so I might change plans and do some things around here with the girls.

The girls had their 1^st round of swim lessons yesterday.  They were so excited to be going swimming and at a school to boot.  We were dressed and waiting for class to start watching the other kids in their lessons and the girls couldn’t sit still.   Once class started for them the shyness appeared and it was slow moving towards the teacher.  Erika ended up taking the lead and Emily followed.   Once in the water it was like watching 2 little seals bobbing their head above the ice.  We could barley see them with the way the class was situated and the edge of the pool sits.

 

Class consisted of putting their heads underwater, kicking a little while held by the teacher and bobbing up and down while the teacher took his turn with each kid.  They didn’t stop smiling and giggling until it came down to business.  Business was their turn to float on the back or whatever. 

 

I did realize a few things while at this 30 min class.

 

1)      When Emily is with just family she is the boss of Erika.  We constantly tell her to stop bossing Erika around and how she is not the boss.  When you toss her into a new situation Erika is a leader and Emily follows.

2)      I have prior experience teaching swimming and realized that its better for them learning from a stranger then me because when I try to teach them anything its one big game.  They listen much better to the teacher.

3)      My how easy it was to get the girls to shower and wash their hair when they just finished swimming.  It was great not asking 10 times for them to put their head under the water or jump in the shower.

4)      This was a photo opportunity and I did not bring the camera.  Everyone but Ryan and I took some photos.  

Over the weekend we took the girls to a Demo Derby.  This was also my 1st time and it was GREAT! Who doesn’t love watching cars and trucks drive around crashing into each other and then catching on fire.  The best part of the show had to be the full size trucks raming into eachother. 
The other weekend we went to the Broadway production of Mary Poppins and I’m on the fence as too which was acutally better.  Demo Derby or Mary Poppins??? 
Not only was the crashing of cars great the people watching was even better.  For those of you who have been to the BEM. Speedway you know what type of crowd likes to visit these events, exlcluding myself .  I didn’t realize that Buffalo had such a crowd and felt like I was back in BEM on a sunday night enjoying the stockcar races. 
1) My 11 year old daughters will not be allowed out of the house wearing such little outfits and they will not be allowed to attend such an event until they are 16. 
2) Do people not realize that it is NOT ok to bring your can of beer into a grandstand. You must leave that back in the cooler and yes I know on the weekends a beer can doesn’t leave your hand unless its empty but this is a publice place where alcohol is not sold.
3) Taking as shower after work is OK even if your just going to the dirty rodeo arena to watch dirty cars crash.
4) A lift, mud tires and large antennas does not make your Mini Van any cooler.
5) Cheese curds at any event are YUMMY
6) Letting your child who looks to be 2 hang on the protective gate is NOT a good idea
7) Using 4 letter words in front of your child who looks to be 2 is another bad idea.
Overall it was fun and the girls had a blast.  They want to go back again and have daddy drive his little car.

Yesterday I picked up the girls from DC and each day we pick up there is a quick review of how the day went and if anything we should know about important occured.  Anytime that one of the kids has been in trouble its the talk of DC the min. a parent walks in the door. 
E & E were the last to pick up and so there were no other kids there to tell me of the days events.  The DC lady started to tell me about Emily while Erika is in hte back ground giving me her version of the days events

Emily had to sit in time out becuase she bit another girl.  My girls have never been big on the bitting thing but in the past when Emily is tired or not feeling 100% she can get a little fisty but normally only with her sister.  Well today was the exception. Apparently Emily didn’t like that the other girl told her to stop kicking the other little boy during the game or she wouldn’t be allowed to play anymore.  Emily I guess went to do what looked like hug the little girl but really she went to bite and take out a her chest.  Bitting is not allowed at DC and Emily was sent to Time Out. 

The DC lady was talking with Emily about the situation and going over what she did was wrong and how she needs to say sorry.  Emily asked if she was going to tell her daddy and the DC lady explained that mommy would be picking up so she would tell me and Emily said Ok but don’t tell my daddy.  At this point I guess Erika poked her noes in and told DC lady that she could spank Emily.  DC lady explained that she doesn’t spank and only mommies and daddies do that.  Erika told her its OK to spank her becuase her daddy does it.  

When we got home I did tell daddy what had occured and then went on to tell him about the comments from the peanut gallery and Emily about not wanting daddy to know.  Apparently Emily didn’t want daddy to know becuase when they get home after a day where there is TO they have to sit in TO at home also and not play outside and Emily wanted to play outside.  

ps - we don’t spank our kids  

They each have their own story but yet they are related to the girls and daycare.

 

Soup – Everyday since the girls could talk Ryan and I ask them how their day went and what they did.  Their answer is pretty much the same everyday, played and then some story about so and so did this or so and so said that.  In their life it’s a big deal when someone has to sit in time out or gets in trouble for hitting.  After we talk about what they did I ask what they had for lunch.  99% of the time they seem to have soup.  I will even know what they really had and their answer will be soup.  I’ve tried asking them if they had chicken or mac and cheese and they say nope we had soup.  I will go through a list of things they might have had and it’s always the same answer, no we didn’t have that we had soup.

 

You might think that maybe they only get soup but they will come home with a red sauce stain on their shirt and still tell me they had soup.  I will ask other kids what they had before leaving daycare and when we get home the girls will still tell me they had soup. I wonder if other kids go through this stage.

 

Dog – My daycare ladies family just got an 8 week old Springer Spaniel puppy.  I have yet to see the puppy but have heard all about it from the girls.  Well today when I dropped off my DC lady (R) asked Erika if she told me about what her daughter came and told DC yesterday.  Erika was all confused and had no clue what R was talking about so R asked her what Brit has in her belly.  Erika’s little face lit up, you could tell she knew the answer, and she said ‘a puppy’.  

I had to remind R that my girls come home daily saying they had soup for lunch so there is no way they would remember anything of importance.  That is unless someone was sent to time out, bitten or hurt then that’s all we hear about once we get home.

 

Its Friday and a long weekend !!!

Last Sat we had a bon fire over at the neighbors.  It was great becuase the kids played with a few other kids while we sat with adults and had a nice conversation.  We all went to bed very late and even slept in.  My girls are not ones that stay up late and sleep in the next day so this was very much a treat.  I think the entire house finally rolled out of bed between 9 - 10.  Erika and Daddy were up at 9 and Emily and I more like 10. 
Just to top off the weekend we ALL took great naps on Sunday.

Ah what a great weekend that was.