After all of our Christmas festivities, we've been playing nicely with our new toys. The tents are getting a workout, as is the Home Depot station and cash register stand. I must have put together the super hero sets a million times, and the boys have carried their Minions everywhere!!! The gifts have been spot on! We got out the new play dough kits again this morning and got to work. Beau's garbage truck "poops out stinky trash" according to him! Kind of true . . . the front loader dumps the play dough in the truck and the spinning of the wheels pulls it through and dumps it out under the truck. Lincoln's set is much sweeter, and he loves to make fun candy shapes for us. After a while, the boys traded so Beau could have a rest from "stinky poop trash." We talk about poop a lot it seems.
After lunch and a rest, it was warm enough to play outside (like 60 degrees). Beau located a few sticks and shovels and took to digging in the flowerpots. He transported soil to empty buckets and handed them out like prizes. "Be very careful," he told me! Uh, yeah, I'm not gonna touch it so don't worry! Lincoln mostly wanted me to push him in the swing. We worked on pumping legs. While he knows to put his legs up then back, I'm not sure he's really putting the right effort into it. They switched it up after a while, and Beau wanted to be pushed on the little swing. He didn't do anything but smile while swinging!
Lincoln moved on to soccer, and we had so much fun kicking the ball around. We need to work on the "no hands" rule. I'm probably not the best soccer coach around, but we laughed a lot!
We went to Mia's for a super yummy dinner, and the boys loved their chicken tacos. (Why have I never ordered these grilled and melty fajita tacos for them before??? I make them at home for them but never thought about it at a restaurant. It was at mile 1.5 on my run today when the brainstorm hit, and I called Kevin completely out of breath with this revelation. He was kind of underwhelmed!) A visit to Monster Yogurt was super sweetly requested, so a visit we made. After hearing all of the yogurt choices, they both picked Pomegranate Raspberry? Really, no chocolate or vanilla? They both added rainbow sprinkles to their exotic flavored yogurt and settled in to enjoy their sweet treat. It was completely empty in the store . . . maybe not too many people go out for frozen yogurt on December 28?
We're really enjoying the break from school (and work!!), and this was a wonderful week at home. We have lots planned for our second week of vacation!
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