This Weekend

I had been trying to get Den to take an overnight trip somewhere sometime in August, but our 16 hour driving trip looms and we decided to hang out at home.

The top photo is not from this weekend, but it might as well be. The kids love the hammock and I love this shot. They are reading Eddie's current favorite book, Oceans. Actually everyone in the family likes it. It's a couple hundred pages broken in to 2 page spreads with bullet points about every possible thing related to the ocean. He is forever asking how long it would take to read the whole book and we assure him it would consume an entire day. Den and I feel like we are learning something too.

Eddie loves gymnastics, but the current gym we belong to does not have many classes to choose from and because we are not County residents, we get last dibs, so I'm on the hunt for a new place for him. We tested out another gym, twice as far away and it was okay. I liked the class, but the facility was pretty wretched. We then went straight to an ice skating birthday party. To her credit, Josie did one loop around the ice rink before she decided she'd had enough. Eddie and Den stayed long after we left.

Eddie rash came back this weekend, pretty bad too, to the point we were talking about another doctor's apointment tomorrow, but we think we can keep it under control as it seemed to respond to the medicene we tried. Ugh.

The kids swing as high as they can in the hammock and play all sorts of cute games, like synchronized swimmers, they hide in the hammock and stick up an arm or a leg or a finger at the same time. This was one of the least blurry ones, and I laid on the ground, so I could get Josie in the shot too.

Saturday afternoon, we broke out the slip n slide! The box does say it's for ages 5 and up. True to that, Eddie has it down pat, but Josie is still trying to figure out how to make it work. Eddie agreed to pull her down the slip n slide, and they thought that was the funniest thing ever.

Today was a bit less family focused, as Den watched the kids, whilst I spent 3 hours pulling up the carpet, carpet tacks, and nails from the basement steps. After what we guess is at least 35 years, the carpet is wearing thin and the tacks were starting to poke through. I'm proud to say I did 95% of the job myself (needed Den for a couple brute force parts). Now I'll prime it, paint it and then put in some stair treads until we figure out what to do. Somehow I got 5 loads of laundry done today. Getting all the laundry done by the end of the weekend is only second to having all the ironing finished before it's time to start the next round of laundry. I was also reminded why I do not grocery shop on the weekends. Holy cow!