Holy Ham Fried Rice, Batman!

Highlight of the day-- ham fried rice. Oh yeah! I made an entire pot today foolishly thinking I could freeze some for Matt to take to work for lunches. By the time the kids were done I had two servings left for my Chouie. The kids ate and ate and ATE! It was pretty good, if I dare say so myself.
Today we drew a map for our art project. We used the big newspaper roll so the map was about four feet by three feet. We drew roads to get to each daycare kids house and my house. We drew Magna, Kearns, West Jordan and a bit of the east side since we just had to have Wheeler Farm and the zoo on there. We included Grandma's house and two McDonald's. We had a pizza place next to the bank since my Alex said, "Mama, on Saturdays when Daddy works you go to the bank and pizza" That is true, child. Shh! Daddy doesn't know we eat pizza every time he works extra. The kids colored the map and drove cars on it. They had fun with it. Other land marks included Wal-mart, the mountains and the Great Salt Lake with sail boats on it.
Today we played outside in the backyard. The kids really love to be out there. Kiara likes the sandbox and plunks down right in the middle of it usually. Avaleigh likes to crawl up and down our hill. Tyler and Alex usually play together in the cube-thing. It is a square, it has a slide and the kids can climb it and use it as a playhouse. It also has a big ledge where the kids like to sit in the shade. Chase played ball with my Alex today. We got some of the mitts that the ball sticks to and they had fun together. Emmett played in the exersaucer.
We blew bubbles today. We played Jr. Bingo where shapes of varying colors are called out instead of numbers. We jumped off the couches and pretended to be Buzz Lightyear. Chase made me laugh when he yelled, "I AM BUZZ LIGHTYEAR! THE GREATEST, BEST SUPER HERO IN THE WOR---LD!!!" We had a "Tickle Race" where the kids ran past me trying to see if they were fast enough not to get tickled. We played a little game while we were cleaning up the playroom. I put my head in the corner, closed my eyes, counted to ten and when I turned around I had to guess what they had picked up while I wasn't looking. They were great cleaners today so I think we'll be playing that everyday!