Fun Friday

I went back to work full time this school year, which has been tough for me. I REALLY loved having my Fridays off. After the girls were born, I was able to take leave from work until they were 7 months old and then I only went back 3 days a week for a couple of months before I was off for the summer. Last year, I worked 4 days a week and having that one extra day off a week was great.

Somehow, I am managing to get my butt up for work for a 5th day this year and I'm usually making it on 7 hours of sleep, sometimes less. When I planned my work calendar this year, I tried to sneak in one Friday off every month and today was one of those days.

The girls seem to be transitioning from 2 naps down to 1 because at least one of them has been boycotting their afternoon nap for the last week OR if they do go down, they are only quiet for 30 minutes or so. I decided I was going to try to keep them up in the morning and skip their first nap and see how they did with just one nap in the afternoon.

To keep us all entertained, I decided to take the girls to Costco. This is the first time I have taken all three of them by myself to a store. This would not have been possible if Costco didn't have the BIG grocery cart. I LOVE Costco. I was feeling confident and assumed they would enjoy lolly-gagging at all the people.

I knew that the girls would be pointing and whining for every bit of food they saw while we walked up and down the aisles, so I made sure I brought some animal crackers along for them to snack on. Riley and Makena shared the seat in the front of the cart and I buckled Alyssa inside the cart. Thankfully, she sat right down and didn't seem to care about being buckled in.

My favorite part of the trip was when Riley ran out of her animal crackers and Makena kept handing her cookies from her bag to keep her happy. And when those two mowed through their 2 bags, Alyssa was nice enough to share her crackers with them.

We had a successful trip and I was able to get everything on my list! Alyssa was squished in between boxes of food as we made our way out.

I have been busier than usual with the girls because Steve has been working ALOT. He was out of town for work 2 nights this week and gets home right before the girls go to bed on the other nights.

Needless to say, our backyard is only half way finished. We finally have our concrete patio in, but the grass, landscaping and finishing touches still need to be done. But, with the patio done, at least we can take the girls out in the backyard and let them play.

The girls need ALOT of supervision in the backyard because our lot really sloped in the back and Steve had to build retaining walls to give us more to work with. There are lots of places where the girls can fall over the edge of the retaining wall, but they are pretty good about listening to me when I HOLLER at them to get back.

The girls love playing down on the lower level of the yard. They collect and throw rocks all over the place and find lots of dirt to play in.

We were lucky to see a herd of turkeys out on the golf course while we were out today. The girls think they are hilarious. Turkeys are actually pretty ugly animals....they look like a throwback bird from the prehistoric age.

Riley and Makena helped me sweep the gazillion acorns off of our patio. Love the shade that our Oak tree provides, but the acorns that it drops are a pain in the butt. The girls kept slipping and sliding all over the place because of them.

The girls made it through the day with only one nap and they were great! Just another sign that my babies are growing up.

Boo hoo......