A Day in My Life: Saturday

Today was a fairly lazy day.  We didn't have very much on the schedule.  Baby and I got up around 7:40.  I cleaned up the kitchen, then started breakfast.  We usually make a big family breakfast on the weekends.  I scrambled a dozen eggs and popped a pumpkin cream cheese french toast in the oven that I had made a couple days before.  The girls got up in shifts and Paul got up around 8:30.  I usually try to let him sleep in on Saturdays because he never gets to during the week.

We ate breakfast and quickly got dressed so we could be out the door at 9:20 to head to Rose's first basketball game.  We had low expectations after our experience with volleyball, but we were pleasantly surprised by how well they did.  They seemed to catch on to the rules of the game pretty quickly and could actually get the ball in the hoop!  Rose even made a basket!

When we got home, the big girls practiced piano, then everyone ate lunch and went outside to play.  Paul did yard work, while I checked my emails then got baby in bed.

The rest of the afternoon consisted of the girls having a tea party, Rose working on her ocean box, me finally unpacking a suitcase that has been sitting there for 2 weeks (can you tell how much I hate to unpack?!), and Paul cleaning out the van (yes, he is brave!).  I also did some much needed mending while Paul went to work out.

Baby woke up around 3:00, I fed him, then Paul came home.  I finished my mending for the day, then went in the basement to do a workout video.  I had a lot of little tagalongs join me :)

When I finished, I fed the baby again, threw dinner in the oven, then went upstairs to get Maximus, Ella, and Madeline in the tub.  Paul ran to Redbox to return our movie, then to Kroger to pick up a few things.  Rose and Ava took a shower next, then we all sat down for dinner around 6:15.

At the end of dinner, I made Max his first bowl of baby cereal and we all crowded around to see what kind of face he would make after his first bite.  And let me tell you, he did NOT like it!  He gagged, spit up, and cried and cried and cried.  He was so mad!  Haha!  We will have to keep working on that!

The girls did their kitchen jobs, I loaded the dishwasher, then we did a quick clean up of the main floor.  We had about 20 minutes until bedtime, so we played a couple rounds of Heads Up then headed up to bed.

The girls were BOUNCING OFF THE WALLS, so we knew we would have to separate them tonight if we wanted everyone to be asleep at a decent time.  Ella went in our bed (whoever is Star of the Day gets to fall asleep in our bed), then I sent Madeline to Ella's bed and Rose in the hallway.  Well you would have thought I asked Rose and Madeline to cut their arms off they threw such a fit!!!  So unfortunately both of them lost their reading time and had to turn lights out right away.  So I only read Ella and Ava a book, sang Ella a song, then hopped in the shower.

Maximus was screaming when I got out, so I quickly changed, went down to feed him then went back up to sing Ava a song.  I had some brie in the fridge that I bought at the store on Thursday, so I threw that in the oven, then tried to get Max to sleep.  Baby's nap schedule was messed up today, so he had a late nap and did not go to sleep until around 10:00.  I put him in bed, grabbed my brie (didn't get a picture because it didn't look too pretty, but it was good!!!) and headed to the basement to hang with Paul for a bit.

Paul went up around 11:00, but I was still finishing a few emails so I didn't go up until 11:30.  Max woke up right when I got upstairs, so I went in to feed him and found that he was soaked from an overly wet diaper.  So I quickly changed him (he wasn't too happy about that!), fed him, put him in bed and got myself ready for bed.

It was such a nice lazy day!  I soak up every moment of days like these because I know all too soon the girls will have activities that will fill up our entire weekends.