Our Saturday

Matthew and Kayla walked into our bedroom this morning at 7:20am, and when I woke up I said, "Mom and Dad are still sleeping," and so they left the room.   I didn't think anything of it as I laid my head back down on my pillow, but when I woke up again at 7:40am I thought I better go check on them.  I peeked into their room and they had nicely climbed back into bed and were silently waiting for one of us to get up.  So sweet.  I brought them downstairs where they climbed onto 'their spots' on the couch and were ready to watch Little Bear (more specifically, the 'Rain Dance Play' episode, as per their request - you know your kids love Little Bear when they now the names of the episodes...).  I went back upstairs to shower and get ready for the day, and then peeked in at Nathan at 8:00am who was silently just standing in his crib, waiting for someone to take him out.  So sweet.

At 10:30am I dragged Matthew and Kayla out of the house with me and headed to Toys 'R' Us.  They were having a Lego "Make and Take" event starting at 11am where kids ages 4+ could make a Lego car/jet and then got to take it home (I figured Matthew and Kayla were close enough to being four and good enough at Lego to be able to do it).  I assumed there would be some keeners arriving early, so my plan was to be there early too.  Note to self:  I should have been earlier.  There were probably about 30 kids in line ahead of us when we got there.  Matthew and Kayla nicely stood by my side as we waited in line.  They were so good.  The event ended up starting late, at 11:15am, and so we didn't get to the front of the line until about 11:40am.

The kids each received a bag and then dutifully walked along the table taking the required number of each type of Lego piece needed out of the little containers.  Before dropping them in the bag I inspected their selection to make sure that they had not over-taken or under-taken on anything.  I decided to not make the car/jet there because Matthew and Kayla were tired of being there, so we left once we had everything.  

I then dragged Matthew and Kayla along to Superstore, where I had to hit up the sales and items I had PC Plus points for and then we headed home.

Nathan nicely napped for 2.5 hours, and during that time we had pancakes for lunch (thanks, Jon!), created our Lego jets, and tidied up.  When Nathan woke up the kids quickly had a snack and then we bundled up to walk to our nearest polling station to vote.  Matthew asked what voting was...how the heck do you explain that to a kid, especially when you're as politically dumb as I am?  I said that we were voting for people to be leaders in the city and make decisions and rules.  I then asked Jon who I was supposed to vote for :).

After voting we walked over to Extra Foods, picked up a Delissio pizza for dinner and a Starbucks for the walk back.  It was a nice surprise to find out it was a 'buy one get one free' day at Starbucks today for all of their Christmas-y drinks.  Yay!  One drink doesn't go very far when you have three kids that want their equal share of it (yes, even Nathan likes coffee!).

We got home and I put the three kids in the bath while Jon cooked the pizza.  I usually try to give Matthew and Kayla a bath on Saturday evenings so I can wash their hair for Sundays.  If they don't get their bath on Saturday evening then I have to get them in the bath Sunday morning which makes for a busier morning before church.

We quickly ate our pizza, and then watched Shrek on "Jon's" tv.  The only time Matthew and Kayla watch tv on Jon's tv (super large screen) is if we're having a pizza/movie night, so it's really special for them.  Matthew and Kayla have just 'learned' how to sit through a movie, so over the past couple of months we've been trying to make our way through a lot of the Disney/Pixar movies.  So far we've watched:  Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, Finding Nemo, The Lion King, The Little Mermaid, and Snow White.

As soon as the movie ended at 7:30pm, all three kids headed upstairs to bed, and were asleep within moments of turning the lights out (which is the norm for them).  And so here I set, uploading my October pictures to Picaboo so I can work on my photobook (yes, I actually got caught up again!), loading pictures to this blog and writing this entry (as boring as it probably is!), checking mtv.ca on Jon's laptop to see if there are any episodes of the Teen Mom series that I haven't seen (the sound on my laptop doesn't work), and procrastinating doing anything productive, such as housework (thanks Colin, for pointing out my fingerprint-filled tv) and working for BLG.  

And that, my friends, was our Saturday.  A day in the life of us :).