The kids and I were on our own for five days so that Christie could take a well deserved vacation. My mom (grandma to the kids) stayed with us and was a big help on Wednesday – Friday. We had a great time and kids seemed to be on their best behavior – I am not sure how I got so lucky.
On Friday night, Torin and Zoe said that they wanted sushi so we went our favorite local sushi place. Beck must have ate half of the bowl of Edamame, Torin drank all of his miso soup, and Zoe ate several different rolls because she said that she wanted to try some new things.
On Saturday morning, I got everyone in the car and we got donuts and went Bluebird park in Laguna Beach with their friend Delaney (we are not going to tell mom about the donuts). Zoe didn’t actually finish her donut because she said that it was too sweet if you can believe that. Zoe and Torin spent most of their time on this thing spinning round and round.
He finished off Saturday with another trip to the park in the afternoon just to make sure that they were completely exhausted.
On Sunday we went to Ben’s birthday party. I got everyone dressed and we were able to leave the house almost on time. I was even able to comb everyone’s hair as you can see in this picture:
At Ben’s party there was a snake guy that brought a bunch of snake, spiders, lizards and a tortise. Torin was scared and spent most of the time outside. Zoe was a little shy but she was able to touch everything but she made sure that no snakes were put around her neck. Here is a picture of holding part of a python:
I was able to get all three kids to sleep every night by 7:30 which gave me a nice break every night. We had a great time. Maybe we will do it again in another year.
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