Sleeping in and Biking on!

After yesterdays party, Brady and I were pretty dead to the world. When we finally climbed into bed, we watched about five minutes of tv and fell asleep. Rowan woke up to eat once or twice, neither of us remember how many times. When he woke up for the day around 6:30, we tried to make the best of it. We sat up, turned on some Seinfeld, started up the Keurig, and woke up. Usually Ro is awake for a solid hour or two before going back down, but he only made it until 7:30 before he needed to go back down. So he was sleeping, and Dekker and Laela were barely stirring. So we snuggled in for another quick episode…

Aaaaand woke up at 10:00am. Thank you, Lord, for giving us such relaxed and content children who entertained themselves for who knows how long while Brady and I slept in waaay too late. But oh my gosh it was fabulous.

We got the kids up right away and fed them some breakfast. We were overwhelmed by the dishes yesterday, and didn’t do any, so the kitchen looked pretty rough this morning. While the kids ate, I unloaded and repacked the dishwasher, and made the executive decision that we would not wash anything by hand that we didn’t absolutely have to. So needless to say, that poor dishwasher has been running all day, each load containing a couple of big bowls. But the impending dish wash is coming, as we’re running out of bottles, and prefer to hand wash those. Reality will hit tomorrow.

The kids napped after lunch. It wasn’t their best nap, and they were grumpy when we got them up. But with the promise of a bike ride, they were enthusiastic to get dressed and go out. We did that for probably a solid hour. I’m so impressed with how far Dekker has come even in the last couple of days on his bike! He’s got the pedalling motion down, and he even is pretty good at steering. We’re now just building up his strength! And realistically, he’s got to start paying attention, haha! He just looks off into nowhere and veers off the road, or he’ll just stop out of nowhere, because he’s deep in thought about something. Its funny and endearing, but my goodness, we could just sit stationary in the middle of the street for ten minutes if I weren’t there to bring him back down to earth!! Haha! Its terribly cute.

After our long bike ride outside, the kids are feeling really trashed. Despite their nap, I think it might need to be an early night for everyone. I’m thinking that bathing the kids might not be the most fun its ever been…