Last Week: Music, grass, and… food mostly.

Last Tuesday when I packed everybody’s lunch, I just couldn’t help taking a picture.  :)

Joanna’s: hard boiled egg, ham and cheese “roll-up,” ants on a log, cantaloupe.

Natalie: PB&J, cheese, cantaloupe, hard-boiled egg

James: pear, cantaloupe, hard boiled egg, sweet potato

The girls, singing to some sheet music I had out.  I love it when they pretend they can read.  :)

We stopped by my mom and David’s house one day last week, and this is what Joanna did as we were leaving:

It made me feel a little guilty about the state of our grass (none – all dead), but then I figure we can just go visit my mom to lay in the grass.  :)

I bought these silicone push pop mold things, and finally got around to using them.  :)  I filled them with smoothies and froze them.  The girls thought they were great!

And this week I sent one in Joanna’s lunch, and it was back to smoothie consistency for her to drink at lunch time.  Yum!

Last Friday my mom gave us some childcare so we could go on a date!

This is what you look like when your four year old takes your picture:

The camera at that angle adds like 25lbs, right?

We still had some Red Lobster gift card money, so of course that’s were we went!  Sadly, I forgot to take a picture before we started our meal, so these next shots may be a little gross depending on your view of things.

We realized when we got there that is was all you can eat shrimp time.  Ahhh… Heaven.  I had a whole lot of fried shrimp and some scampi and some shrimp pasta.

And Matt had some kind of other funky things with more spices involved.

And there was salad and baked potatoes and those amazing cheddar bay biscuits.  I definitely ate too much.  And I was very happy.  :)

Then we went to Wal-Mart.  It was fun.

Sadly though, we got home and EVERYONE WAS STILL AWAKE.  I fired my mother, then we put everyone to bed, and by 10:30, I think they were asleep.  And they’re still grumpy.

:)

Poor James is just a little addicted to some Momma love before bed, and my mom didn’t know about how the girls can’t sleep after they watch TV and she let them watch TV.

I’ll probably forget and rehire her again soon (or as soon as she’ll let me).  The price is right.  And she feeds them and loves them and takes really good care of them and they love her.  And it doesn’t matter what shape my house is in.  :)

THANK YOU MOMMA!