Play Day

Today was a really fun day. Matt and I took care of all of our chores last night so there wasn't any house work for me in the morning. I used the extra time to play legos with Ava and Kiara before nap time. They really enjoy them. Ava likes to clean up so her favorite part is taking the blocks one at a time and putting them away. I really, really hope she keeps the loving to clean up habit. When I'm old maybe she'll come clean for me.
Once the babies were asleep we played the boys' favorite game, tickle race. They had a blast running from me. I chased them and thew them into the air and on the couches. They love it!
We went to go get Alex early so we would have time to play on the playground. The playground is pretty old school. Rocks, a giant metal swing set and one of those dome climbers. They mostly play with the climber. They squeeze in and out of it calling it their club house.
On the walk back to the parking lot after dropping of my Mister Alex Alex P. asked me if we could sing a song since my Alex is always singing when we leave the classroom. The song we came up with is this... "Oh here we go together, together, together, oh here we go together to our big ugly awesome van. There's Ava and Joshie and Alex P and Tyler and Kiara and Bella. Oh here we go together to our big ugly awesome van."
Kiara has a knack for music all ready. It really amazes me how much she sings and how well she can catch a tune since she is so young. This morning she was singing me "Jesus wants me for a sunbeam" At our house we give each other a high five every time we sing the word 'Sunbeam' in that song and Kiara was waving her arms like crazy as she sang. So cute!
When we got home from school we played with the kitchen set taking turns making each other peanut butter sandwiches out of the felt food I made for Josh's last birthday. They were silly adding pineapple, lettuce, etc to the sandwiches.
We ate eggs, carrot sticks, and toast for lunch today. I used cookie cutters on the toast so the girls ate butterflies and the boys ate dinosaurs. They always like it when I do that and they just gobbled it up so fast we had tons of time for outside today. Our chicks are completely grown up and we're getting our first eggs from them now. The kids all talked about how the chickens weren't babies anymore and how they were grown up chickens, "not kid chickens anymore" Josh kept saying.
We played ball outside today and the kids played in the sand box. I pushed them on the swing set for awhile until Ava crawled over to my legs and demanded to be picked up. Kiara was cute watching the chickens and ducks while I fed them.
Oh-- we found a dead bird of some sort that had fallen out of our neighbors apple tree. Just FYI in case your darling child has a sudden curiosity about death.