So Monday, how are you?

I was running late this morning because Henry climbed into bed with me at 5:11am despite my urges to go over and bother daddy. He did that thing where he throws arm and leg and basically his body over me in an intense snuggle (I do not touch when I sleep) and even though it was very sweet and very annoying, the whole time I wasn’t sleeping I was thinking how I used to do this exact thing to my mom when I couldn’t sleep. Sorry, mom. Being the big spoon is so much more comfortable.

I somehow managed to get on the road only five minutes late, and when I was almost to work I got a text from my boss telling me that our assistant is out sick, my coworker has car problems, and she slept through her alarm and will be more than an hour late. Plus! Our one other coworker is on vacation. SO! It looks like at five minutes late, I am the winner on the Monday morning attendance. Excuse me while I drink my coffee and eat my eggs and banana in quiet this morning.

This weekend was full full full. Come to think of it, my weekends are always full – this one seemed fuller than most. Tax free weekend meant I took the kids by myself to the mall for Spencer’s back-to-school shopping. Thankfully (or sometimes, not thankfully), the elementary schools here are in uniform. There are 4-5 color polo shirts (no emblems) they can wear, and khaki or navy pants. I got most of them Saturday; he’ll need a few more pants (he’s grown out of last years’) but he’s good for now. We then met my husband’s cousin for play at the local children’s museum. A couple months ago Living Social had a membership deal, which I took, and then enough people bought from my link that I ended up with a free membership. So! The children’s museum! It was fun, although I’m not good at keeping up with others when my kids would prefer just to climb on the leaves suspended from the ceiling, slide down the firepole (or fall through the hole for the pole, in Henry’s case) or soak themselves through to the bone in the boat/port area. We were only there a few hours but that was enough for me. When we finally made it home I was tired to the bone and C had to go get Thai for our dinner.

Sunday we made it out to Blizzard Beach to again take full advantage of our Disney passes. This is by far the superior water park between it and Typhoon Lagoon. I mean, TL was fun, but BB was WAY FUN. Slides galore, so many things for the kids to do! Henry did every single slide twice, including the two that you toboggan race head first down a water slide on a mat. Spencer could have done a couple more things but the pool at the end was too deep for him and scared him a little. So I have NO pictures of the fun because I won’t leave my phone unattended so it got left in the locker all day but believe me: we had fun.

 

(Spencer's drawing of a man and a slide a la Blizzard Beach)

The only pictures we took, on the way out.