Weekend Recap

It’s been a whirlwind week for us.  So much of a whirlwind that I am finally getting around to posting our weekend recap just as the new weekend starts.

Last weekend was a long three day weekend for Scott.  I was able to enjoy a nice five day weekend.  Oh the joys of working part time.

We tried to fit in as much as we could, get out of the house as often as possible.  On Saturday I took Olivia to our annual Moline boy’s basketball game with Papa.   She really enjoys going to those games.  Olivia actually watched most of the game this time.  She even enjoyed watching the cheerleaders.  However, I think her favorite part was the popcorn, hotdog, nachos and pop.  That may have been momma’s favorite part too.

On Sunday we took the kids to Monkey Joes to burn off some of their energy.  We met up with Olivia’s favorite friend Lily and her siblings.  Olivia wasn’t too fond of the big slides and jump houses, but warmed up towards the end.  She would have enjoyed staying in the little three year old bounce house that she could run and jump around in the entire time.  Finn on the other hand, he is going to be our little daredevil.  Finn wouldn’t stay in the bounce house that Olivia loved so much so we decided to take him down one of the larger slides in our laps.  He loved the first ride so much; he had the biggest grin on his face as dad took him down!  Scott and I took turns (aka – fought over) who got to go down next, I guess “big kids” like bounce houses too.  Finn would giggle the entire way up the ladder and laughed as we flew down the slide.

On Monday Olivia and I had a Mommy-Daughter day.  Liv was so excited.  We went shopping and out to lunch.  Olivia loves her new purple light up shoes and the Valentine’s Day outfit that she picked out all on her own.  Having lunch with Olivia made me realize that she is growing up way too fast.  We sat across from each other at the table and the conversation flowed the entire time.  It was just like I was sitting across from my best friend.  She is so animated and funny.  I can’t wait until our next Mommy-Daughter day

Poor little Finn didn’t understand that he couldn’t come with.  I felt so bad when, all by himself, he got his shoes out of the closet and brought them over to me to put on his little feet after I was finished putting Olivia’s on.  His big brown eyes looked so sad when I told him it was just the girls.

In other Finn news, we moved him to a big boy chair at the dinner table.  He loves his freedom and is starting to get the hang of using a fork.  Last night he dumped everything off his plate, in true Finn fashion of course, then proceeded to put the items one by one back on his plate to eat.  Apparently he knows that you can’t eat directly off the table.