The girls are now twins - Riley and Madi that is. I'll explain it later in the post.
Today was a good, but mentally tiring day. Mentally tiring because I felt as though I was juggling three balls at one time and each one had a different need at the same time - ALL day long. Usually there's a little lull. Not today :)
Our van was in need of an oil change as well as an inspection. Since we leave for Killeen tomorrow morning, I didn't want to go without taking care of both of them. So I decided this morning to take the three girls to Firestone Auto. We put together some fun bags - Madi brought some paper and things to draw with, Riley brought some blocks and a blanket and Julia had her snacks and some little people and of course, whatever everyone else brought. We left at 8am.
Thankfully, there weren't very many people in the waiting area - like four others. So we took the corner area of the seating area and I put the pink blanket down so Jules would have somewhere to sit to put her blocks and people and such. The girls each chose a chair to sit in. Madi started drawing right away, Riley played blocks and Julia had her snack.
Then the girls started to play hide and seek. No one around seemed to mind and since they were staying away from the counter and playing very quietly, I didn't care. However, Riley wouldn't cover her eyes to count. So Madi asked if Julia could find them. I took Jules to a window and counted to 15. Then I let Julia go down on the floor to see if she could find the girls. Mind you, this place is not large at all! So the hiding places were limited. But Julia loved finding them and giggled so much. The girls were really really well behaved. We didn't get any dirty looks and a few of the people even said "Hi!" to Julia as she smiled at them. We only did a few rounds of it and then we went back to our spots.
The girls had a granola bar for a snack. I read a short book to Riley. Julia played blocks and little people. Riley and Madi went to the glass door to watch them work on the car. As long as the men weren't bothered and they didn't block people, I let them watch. Thankfully no one came in or out during those ten minutes.
The last ten minutes the girls played on their iPod and iPod Touch. I packed up the blocks and asked the girls to help clean up - which they did without a second reminder. We checked out and after an hour and a half of changing what they were doing every ten minutes, we left. I was lesson planning in my head - geared it toward the four year old age when you want to rotate activities every 8-12 minutes to keep them focused. Worked great! But my brain was tired.
When we got home, Julia went to bed and I asked Madi if she wanted to do some study time now or later. She chose now, but fell asleep on her bed for a little while. So I had her come downstairs and she did some cursive practice, cinquain poetry, metaphors/simile work and eleven math problems. She did great on the cursive and English work, but only had four of the eleven math problems correct. So I sat down with her and went over it. She had rushed through it and I told her that she really needed to take her time. We worked through the problems together and all was fine.
We ate lunch and then the girls played. Madi is in need of some new pjs so I started looking online at several stores to decide where we should look. Couldn't believe the prices!! Toddler and baby or women pjs are so much cheaper than the tween clothing. Pants alone are $19.95 and shorts were $14.95 - this is at Old Navy, Macy's, Gap... So I found some decent prices that looked decent on sale at Macy's and thought we'd go to see if they were of good quality. Come to find out, the sale price was on the individual pieces - not the set as they were shown online. So it was $8 for a tank and $8 for shorts that had the drawstring fraying. I told Madi we'd keep looking.
We walked into the Gap. They were having a huge sale of 30% off the kid's clothing that was already on the sale racks. But to make it even better, since I have a Gap card, they give an additional 25% off of that. We found the pj section and there were tank tops for $7.99 - 30% - 25% so they were only $4 or so. We found some cute pants that were still $19.95 so I told Madi we'd pass on those. But then in the back of the store they had some cute capri pants that were only $5 after the discounts! So I got her a few pairs of capris, tanks, a few tshirts, a pair of shorts, jeans (only $6!!) and a cute skirt.
Riley really, really wanted to get some pjs to look like Madi. So I got her two sets of the same clothes so they could be twins. They look SO cute!!! They were invited to swim at my parents' house again tonight so Jeremy took them over and they dressed in one of their pj outfits. They were so excited.
We leave for Killeen tomorrow morning around 9am or so. Should be a really fun weekend!
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