Emery- An hour and 45 minutes
Gavin- 2 hours and 15 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I put them down at noon today (Thanks to everyone for the suggestions!) and we also spent some time outside this morning to burn off some steam. The combination seemed to do the trick. Let's just hope this keeps up!
After their nap, we took a trip to Sonic for a limeade and stopped at a local park on the way home. The park has several baseball fields, tennis courts, a sand volleyball court, a playground, and lots of sidewalks connecting everything together. There are also a couple of bridges that are fun for the kids to run around on. This is perfect since the grass is still wet and very muddy from last night's storm.
I just kept thinking how crazy it is that I can now just unload Gavin and Emery from the car and let them walk with me! Of course, they've been physically able to walk for a long time, but now things are different. They understand when I say "Stay on the sidewalk, the grass is muddy" and for the most part they follow directions! They aren't eating sand and mulch and constantly taking off in two different directions. There are times that they don't want to stay together, but with a little persuasion, I can usually keep everyone in the same vicinity.
We did have a couple of "snags"......Gavin was doing a nice job at staying on the sidewalk, but at one point he was standing on the VERY EDGE of the grass on a mound of dirt. It took me a second to realize that the mound of dirt was a huge ant pile! His shoes were covered in ants! Luckily, I was able to brush them off and we continued on to........THE PUDDLES!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They were having so much fun splashing in the puddles, that I just let them go crazy. They were filthy and soaked, but they loved it. I was having a hard time getting them back to the car, so I finally had to bribe them......."When we get home, we can watch part of the Cars movie". That did the trick! We started the walk back to the car, when Emery tripped and fell into the grass. I didn't think much of it until she said "uh-oh" and was holding her arms out. Again......covered in ants! I went crazy brushing ants off of her arms. She was still bitten about 10 times. I felt terrible for her, but it didn't seem to phase her. Stupid ants. That's one thing I DID NOT miss about Texas!
2 comments:
Yay for naps!
And isn't it weird to have them walk, just like little kids? I feel strange not getting my double stroller out of the trunk. We just got them the bear backpacks-with-leashes from Target. I was worried that they'd hate them, but they actually love them--Eleanor's been taking hers to bed with her!
YAY!!! I was actually thinking of you when I put the kids down yesterday wondering how you were doing. For some reason the putting to bed earlier works.
I love to see them playing in the puddles those are the small things in life you will remember. So many parents now days are in such a hurry or worried their kids will get dirty and never take the time to stop and smell the roses or play in the puddles. Are you a scrap booker? I would so scrap those pictures.
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