PS I forgot to mention this until after I posted, but when I went to get the little boys dressed Sunday morning, I found out the older two boys had painted their nails pink. No polish remover in the house so when we walked into church, my two baby boys had pink nails!
Well, we have had another really nice weekend. Yesterday we went to see Prince Caspian and really liked it. It is long for little ones (2 1/2 hours). We went to a 9:45 AM showing and we were the only ones in the theater. We could spread out and pretend it was a huge family room. That was particularly nice because Matthew was a little rambuncious and Joseph kept making comments on the movie. The kids spent a lot of the rest of the day playing outside and Peter spent it sleeping so he could do the night shift.
Today started exhausting enough. Once again I was a little late and Peter was home sleeping after a night shift (the last one this month!!), herding my children into the meeting while everyone watched. Then, I had to drag out Matthew and Joseph in the middle of the sacrament because they were being too loud. As if that wasn't bad enough, after we came back in, I gave Matthew my iphone (he likes to hold it up to his ear like he is talking) and he somehow turned on music- even though it was locked and turned to silent. The worse part was, I couldn't figure out how to turn it off fast enough and was forced to practically run down the isle with Matthew in tow while my phone played After Midnight by Eric Clapton. Fun, huh? After that, Matthew more or less played quietly and Joseph looked at scrapbook pictures I have downloaded onto my phone (you should see my 3 year old navigate my touchscreen!), so the rest of Sacrament meeting went well.
After church we rested a while then I woke up Peter and we played a game of Qwirkle (I won!), went on a family walk down the boardwalk by our house (in the drizzling rain, but the kids had a blast), ate some chicken soup (those of you that are in hot areas, we can still have hot chocolate, jackets and soup!), and played a marathon Settlers of Catan Cities and Knights extension game (4 hours). Elise had her 1st victory. And now, the kids are going to bed and I am checking blogs and Peter is watching the golf he DVR'ed. Like I said, just another Later Sunday.
Your Sacrament meeting sounds like a movie spoof or something. The phone part is my favorite, leave it to a kid to break through technology barriers.
ReplyDeleteI'm really excited to see Prince Caspian, I'm glad you thought it was good. I know how embarassing it is to have your phone go off in sacrament meeting, when I was a teenager I alwyas forgot to turn it off and it always rang at the most silent moments. You'd think I'd learn my lesson, but it's happened so many times.
ReplyDeleteWow, Andrea, you had your own cell phone as a teenager....no one had cell phones when I was a teenager........how young are you? :) I have sooo been there in sacrament meeting. Once Bryan and I were both speaking and our kids were so lound that we had to take turns taking them out, but everyone noticed because we just introduced ourselves!
ReplyDeleteI just added to this post because I forgot to mention about Joseph and Matthews fingernails. It is a PS at the beginning of the post, check it out!
ReplyDeleteThat's nothing, I remember calling mom one time and she answered with a "I cant talk right now, I'm in the temple..."
ReplyDeleteWe almost we to see Caspian, but decided not to right before the movie (we were even at the theater).
I can believe they are good with the iphone, I've seen addie use Barlows ipod touch pretty well
Nathan wants me to paint his nails all the time. Fortunately Trevor has never attempted to do it for him!
ReplyDeleteIt must have been nice to have the theater to your selves
ReplyDeleteWe went to see prince caspian last night.(IT WAS WAY TOO LONG!) We went in to the theater at 9:30 and got out at 12:00 but the movie was really good.
Charlotte you're such a blog-o-maniac. How do you learn to do such cool things? That is really funny about your phone, it is to bad they didn't start playing some of Peter's music. "Rollin' with the hommies" or something like that. (Kidding I know Pete only listens to the best of music) I am also really excited about Caspian but have no money to see it :(
ReplyDeleteSo which of your children play Settlers of Catan with you? Maybe I should teach my girls to play. The Cities and Knights expansion is my favorite and it's a little difficult to play the original version once you've moved on to the expansions. Kent and I have the two-player card game, which is one of our favorite Sunday activities after the kids are in bed. If you ever come to Utah again, come over and we'll set aside a block of time to play Cities and Knights!
ReplyDeleteWe play with Elise and Ryan and Ethan sits by me and works like an "apprentice" (I tell him what I am doing and why I think that is the best move and sometimes I give him 2 options and he picks which one we should do). We haven't found anyone here to play with, but Iwould like to play with more adults. Maybe you should just move here!
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