Pleasant Friday

Today was such a pleasant day. Ritch has Fridays off, but between travels and craziness if feels like we haven't had one in a while. Days off also haven't been pleasant much because our boys are in a psycho rowdy high energy phase can it be called a phase when we are going on probably 2 months straight, or 4 years straight. Its hard to enjoy family time when they are crazy little beasts. They are such good friends, laughing and cohorting and fake battling all the time, I love listening to them laugh and egg each other on sometimes, so I am glad they are so close and the stressful parts aren't fights or anything, but still hard to deal with on a daily basis with little reserves of patience and energy. But alas, today was a beautiful day minus once the lights were turned out in their room, which got a bit out of control. As you know Cooper is student of the week this week, thus my crafty poster. And what this means, other than being the ever so important line leader, is that he gets to introduce himself in chapel and help lead songs along with the other students of the week. He has seen this ceremony many times as we have visited chapel often over the years. So he was sooo excited, and actually practiced many times this week, "Hi, I'm Cooper Cable and I'm in Ms. Lisa's class". He has been so cute and counting down the days although he still has no idea the order of the days of the week. But the other cool thing is that Parker too was star student for racking up the most good behavior points see they save it all for home. So that meant we had double duty today in chapel, it was so fun. The boys wanted to stand next to each other to help with songs and line up to introduce themselves. I'll post some pics below and maybe a video. We had a blast. Ritch sat with Cooper's class and Sophie and I sat with Parker's class. Parker has been primarily with the same kids since Pre-K, they knew me with baby Cooper, saw me prego with Sophie, and have now seen Sophie grow up. I'm kinda like a celebrity involved mom to them :). The boys had a ball, singing, jumping, song motions, all the fun stuff with chapel. And even though Parker has been so reserved in chapel and barely gets his name out in past years, Cooper shined! He belted his name out in pride and ran back to his seat as fast as he could he even practiced his speed at home. It was just a fun time of parental pride, worshipping with young ones, and oh camo. Today was the beginning of hunting season so students were allowed to wear camo, of which I thought we had none. I did find camo shorts for Cooper in his drawer, and thanks to the 50% off all clearance items at Old Navy that sucked me in big time, I found some breakaway camo pants for $3 for Parker. And boy were the other boys and girls decked out, they even had a short devotional on hunting gear and the armor of God, kinda scary and definitely not PC for all you northerners. Anyhoo, wonderful morning with my boys. I then hit Old Navy again and then worked out for a longer period. And then unlike most recent evenings, we had a delightful time as a family. We made those marriage testing star wars pancakes again, eggs, fruit salad and bacon for dinner, no complaints from the peanut gallery, then the boys helped me make homeade choc. chip cookies. Cooper literally stuck his hand in the sugar bowl and scooped it up and put a handful in his mouth. Lovely, not to mention half the bag of chips, but I guess this is what cooking with kids is like. its probably why I never do it, but should. They were extra large and oh so yummy, and then after Sophie went to bed we sat around and played Scrabble. Parker's version anyway. All of us having a good quiet time around the table. Cooper even worked on his reading skills and Parker impressed me with his spelling and scrabble skills too. The joke of the night from Ritchey which I should start blogging more of, was that when I asked the kids to clean up all the Scrabble pieces he found the letters, "F" and "the vowel that comes after T" singled out among the others. Ritch said it was a hidden message from them in regards to my cleaning demands.  Whatever! I know this evening probably sounds boring to many of you. But we have been in such a boring, watch movies at night, crazy kid rut, that it was nice to have a "family" night. And tomorow we are off to Baton Rouge to have some fun and for Ritchey to guest preach at a church down there. We never get away for weekends, being in church work and all, so we are looking fwd to it. So yay for pleasant days with a 2, 4, and 7 year old! Oh and P.S. Cooper tore all the pictures off of his poster, I was so frustrated that was going to make a debut at his birthday party too, thanks to my wonderful crafty husband though, he fixed it while I was out! Enjoy maybe the following videos and extra pics from the week. (including a picture of sophie sleeping at night, half out of bed. This is getting to be normal for her as she wanders around once her door is shut and I suppose can't find her way in the pitch dark all the way back into her bed so just gives up and goes to sleep!)