Skateland and other fun stuff...

After my last whiny post, I thought I should quickly (at least for me) add a more positive one. This week has been a lot of fun (even though it's also been a bit busy). Monday was reading night at the school. My kids thought it was great! They love to hear stories and getting to eat cookies afterward was definitely an added bonus. I was glad that we went, though I did wonder beforehand if it would be worth it. I didn't lose any children and I had a great time visiting with my friends.

Tuesday we went skating. This was the third time we've gone since we've been here (it's a popular fund raiser for the schools around it) and the third time that I've forgotten to take pictures. I'll have to see if the principal will share some of his with me. He took a picture of all of us before we left, but I might get lucky and find some of my kids skating. They love it! Jonathan even plays all the games now -- he likes the hokey-pokey a lot. Nina attempts to skate around the entire rink without ever taking her hands off the wall. It's not especially effective, as skating technique goes, but she is a bit chicken (kind of like me--I don't even put on skates). Michael has been skating for years now, so he usually just gets out and goes with the big kids. Yesterday, he decided that he didn't want to skate, though, so we let DJ have his skates and helmet (yes, all of our children insist on wearing their helmets, just to be safe -- Jon also wears wrist guards -- you never know what might befall you...). DJ got training skates for Christmas, which he wears a lot (like a couple of hours a day), but he always gets on his knees and crawls across any hard floors in our house, so we didn't think he'd skate at a rink. Oh, how very wrong we were. Not only did he skate, but he did it without holding onto the wall, or anyone's hands and he went a full circle all by himself. I kept waiting for him to fall down, but he never did. It was the cutest thing ever. He was one of the smallest skaters there (there was a two-year-old girl out there looking pretty good). It's really too bad that I'm the only non-skater in my family, but it's way too late in life to take up potentially bone-breaking activities. (And, yes, I really am a chicken...)

The weather has been beautiful the last couple of days. Our tornado watch/snow advisory turned into 70 degree weather (I won't even try to tell you that I was broken hearted). Yesterday our children decided it was a perfect day for jumping on the trampoline. And, I must say, it really was nice, but the costumes they decided to wear left me a bit disturbed. Our trampoline is (not so surprisingly) located in our backyard. The children decided to wear their bathrobes. I looked out to see all of these flying bathrobes, several pairs of underwear and a diaper (with no flying bathrobe even attempting to cover it). It was rather amusing, but I must say, in Oklahoma people just do not let their kids run around in their underwear, so I made them put clothes on. They seemed rather despondent, so I'm afraid that I ruined their fun, but isn't that what moms are for...