I'm baaaaack!

My blog has been so lonely the past couple of weeks! I have a good reason--I promise! My mom was in town all last week, so I had entertainment and childcare, yay! Seriously, my life is great now, but would be even better if mom lived here. Kate loves her so much, and Avery is definitely on the same path of adoration as her big sister. Let's see...the week in review:

Monday: We went to the zoo. Fun, fun, fun. The weather was perfect, and there were no crowds since Ft. Worth's spring break isn't until this week. I don't think I've mentioned this yet, but we're working on potty training with K, so she was in a pull-up. Those things suck. One pee, and they leak. Anyway, that happened at the zoo, so for the last part of our trip, I had the dirty kid walking around with only a shirt and a diaper on. I used to frown upon those kinds of parents--"geez, can't you even put some pants on that child--think ahead, pack the diaper bag!" Yeah, having a kid has taught me NEVER to judge others based on the appearance of they're children! For the record though, I did pack extra pants, they were just in the car, not the diaper bag!

Tuesday: We felt the need to shop (we always do when mom's in town!) We hit a few stores to get some spring/summer clothes for the kiddos. Let me tell ya, there are way cuter clothes out there for babies than for toddlers! I honestly don't know where the rest of Tuesday went. I guess we just putzed around until bedtime.

Wednesday: The weather was terrible, so we couldn't do any of the fun outdoor things that we had planned. So what did we do? Well, we shopped some more, of course! We needed to find the girls some things to wear for picture day on Friday. We weren't too successful, but we had fun anyway.

Thursday: Avery had her 6 month checkup in the morning. The office was painfully slow, so we got out of there later than I had hoped. Oh well, it's par for the course. After that, I went home to pick up mom and Kate and we headed to the children's museum. The parking lot was pretty empty, so I was hopeful that we'd have the place to ourselves. Imagine my suprise when we walked in and were greeted by hundreds of elementary school kids! We were infomed that the kids would be leaving shortly, so we decided to stay. Right before we payed though, the manager came in and told us that although these kids were leaving, he was expecting a busload of 180 3-year-olds within 30 minutes. That's where I draw the line. It should be illegal for 180 3-year-olds to EVER be in the same place. We high-tailed it back to the car and decided to take K to Chuck-E-Cheese instead. I hate that place on a normal day, but it was even worse that day b/c there was a field trip of 5th graders there. Ugh. I wish I had gotten to go on field trips to CEC when I was in school. Instead, we went to museums and the Alamo. Guess times are changing!

Friday: Got the kids pictures taken (a miserable experience for everyone involved). Got ZERO pics of K b/c she refused to look at the camera. Got a couple cute ones of Avery, but nothing to get excited about.

Saturday: Hung out with friends and just chilled after our busy week.

So, that's our week in a nutshell. We all get a bit sleep-deprived when mom's here b/c we feel like we have to pack everything in before she leaves. Today, we're catching up on sleep. Both girls slept until 8:30 this morning (yay!) They're napping now, and have been for about 2.5 hours. I'm about to have to go wake miss K up, or she'll never go to bed tonight!!