Monday Morning

John woke up this morning and walked to our room. I saw him standing in the hallway and said "John? What are you doing? It's a school day." He was so mad. He put his hands in the air and huffed at me. Daddy chimed in too and said "You got to get ready for school." I said "Go back to your room. I laid out your clothes." He huffed and headed back to his room. Daddy and I burst out laughing. John came running back into our room and said "I knew I didn't have school today!" Daddy and I were just teasing him. 

I went to check on Gillian and I found her in her doorway. She said "Do I have school on Monday?" I said "No." She jumped in my arms and I carried her to Daddy. The two of them snuggled while I got ready for work. Daddy told her "Johnny is watching shows." She said "But I want to stay with you." What a sweetie. She only stayed a little while, but Daddy still got plenty of snuggles. 

Sunday Hugs

Sunday morning, John came downstairs and immediately asked "Can I watch shows?" Daddy said "Yes." I said "No." John said "I guess I gotta pay you." I said "Yes. I gotta get all my hugs now. Because, I know you won't believe this, but at some point you won't want to give Mommy hugs or kisses." He came over and climbed in my lap and gave me a big hug. He said "I would never not want to give you hugs." Daddy and I laughed. We said "One day you won't want to. And you will not like Mommy and Daddy. But that's ok, because it won't last long. And we will still love you eventhough you will think you know better than us." He still didn't believe us. But I got a super tight hug as payment for letting him watch shows. 

Saturday morning

Daddy always let's me sleep in on the weekends. He tells the kids to not bother me and I normally get an extra hour of sleep. This morning Daddy got up to let Duncan out. I heard someone else get up and go in the bathroom and then they headed downstairs. I assumed it was John. He is my early riser and normally gets up and goes to find Daddy. I rolled over and tried to fall back asleep. Then I heard Gillian said "But I can't find him anywhere!" She came in my room and I said "Who?" Then I heard John say "Daddy, his car is still here but I can't find him!" Gillian climbed into bed with me and said "He's gone. I can't find Daddy!" I told them "Daddy is probably in the bathroom downstairs. Don't worry he isn't missing." So they both climbed into my bed and John said "Gilly woke me up. Cause she could find Daddy." Gilly said "Yup. Cause it's morning. Mommy, are you getting up now? See it's morning!" I may have lost my bonus hour of sleep but I got some early morning giggles and snuggles with two of my favorite people. 

Easter Morning

Since we were visiting GiGi and Pop-Pop for Easter this year, we brought the kids Easter baskets with us. The kids put out their empty baskets for the Bunny to fill.  When we tucked them into bed last night, we asked "Do you think the Eastwe Bunny will find us here?" Gillian immediately responded "Yes! Hims will find us!" John was a little unsure "I don't think so." 

John woke up first this morning, and we had to wake up Gillian. The two of them searched everywhere for their baskets. Finally John spotted them in the great room. He said "I told you he would come!" Gilly said "He found us!" I didn't get any pictures of the kid's baskets or them finding the baskets. They were super excited to get jump ropes, bubbles, bouncy balls, chocolate bunnies, Legos, a necklace, princesses and super heroes. 

After opening baskets, we all went out to get breakfast. After breakfast, we returned back to GiGi and Pop-Pop's house. Daddy saw that the Easter Bunny left some eggs around the house. The kids figured out that the Bunny left green and blue eggs for John and pink and purple eggs for Gillian. The kids were awesome this year. They really worked as a team. We heard a lot of "John, over there!" Gilly, I see a pink one!" 

We went inside to see what was inside the eggs. John was super excited to find a quarter in one egg. "I'm rich!" he said. In a big egg, he found gold coins. I said "Look John, you got Gold Doubloons!" This made him very excited. He said "Yes! Gold Doubloons! Hey, are these chocolate?" 

I asked the kids "What was your favorite part of today?" John said "Finding all the eggs." Gillian said "The candy." As always Daddy and I enjoyed spending time with our kids and Daddy's family too. 

Happy Easter!

Sunday morning

I was the first one awake today (rare on a weekend). I went downstairs and started a load of laundry, emptied the dishwasher and made a dozen pumpkin muffins. As I was putting the tray of muffins in the oven, I was joined by John. "Mom? I didn't know you were awake!" He worked on some Legos while I sat and drank my coffee. He showed me his latest creation and Gillian joined us. She gave me a big squeezie and hung out with us. John asked "Mommy? Can we have some of those muffins?" I gave them the muffins and they sat nicely and ate their breakfast together. We shared a nice relaxing morning with no requests to watch TV. What a nice way to start the day!

Harmonica

Friday morning, John came into the bathroom while Daddy and I were getting ready for work. He obviously just woke up and was covering his eyes because the light was so bright. He didn't even say good morning. He simply said "Where's my harmonica?" Yup, first thing in the morning he was worried about his harmonica. I told him that it was in the house somewhere and we could find it later. I asked him why he needed it now. He said "I just want to play music for everyone. It would be nice to play music now. And now I'm never going to find my harmonica."  I thought I knew where it was and I went to look for it. I came back empty handed and that didn't make him happy. He said "Did you look everywhere? I don't think you did. Now I'm never going to play music again!"  We distracted him and he hasn't brought up the harmonica since then. I wonder what he was dreaming about to make him ask about his harmonica first thing. 

Wake up

This morning, John came into our bed and snuggled up next to me. He grabbed my arm and started rolling back and forth. I was ok with the snuggling, but not when he was basically tugging my arm. I kicked him out of the bed. But of course I couldn't fall back to sleep after that. 

Around 8:30 this morning, Gillian was still upstairs. We thought she was sleeping. I went upstairs to check on her. She was wide awake and sitting on her bed. She saw me and said "Morning!"  I asked her why she didn't come find me. She said "I don't know. I no sleeping. The sun bother me." She picked up a baby, baby's blanket and pillow and asked me to pick her up. "I go see my Johnny!" 

Both kids have their own agenda in the morning. John likes to wake everyone up and Gillian just wants to find her brother. 

Wake Up

Gillian is very difficult to get out of bed in the morning. On the weekends we just let her sleep until she is ready to get up. However on the weekdays, either Daddy or I get the pleasure of waking her up. Some mornings she rolls over and tells me "Two more minutes." Other days, she doesn't say anything and rolls over and puts her manket on her head. This morning, John was awake before his alarm. He got dressed and then offered to wake up Gillian. He went into her room and I could hear him say "Gill! It's time to get up!" She must not have responded because again we heard him say "Come On Gill! It's time to wake up!" He then came running back to me and said "I've got nothing!" Sorry, it's not easy to get The Bean out of bed. 

The wipers on the car go...

My kids are like all kids. They love automatic doors. John and Gillian think that they make the door open by sticking out their hand. They do this every time we go through an automatic door. And it is a competition to see who can "open" the door first. 

Yesterday morning, it was raining on our way to school. I started to back out of the driveway and Gillian was saying "Come up! Come up!" I couldn't figure out what she was talking about at first. Finally I realized that she was talking to the windshield wipers. She was telling them to come up and wipe the window. She did this the entire way to school. This morning as I buckled her into her carseat, she said "Come up! Come up! Swipers no working!"  

Shuttin' 'er down!

This morning I got John ready. When he was dressed, I him to go in the bathroom and brush his teeth and tell Daddy to get out of the shower (or as John says "Shuttin' 'er down!") John looks at me and says "I know just what to do!" He goes into the bathroom and I hear the shower stop. I checked on them and John was prepping his toothbrush while Daddy was drying off. Daddy told me that John went right into the bathroom and reached into the shower and turned off the water. He didn't say anything just turned the water off. Daddy was facing away from the faucet so he didn't see anything. Daddy said he thought it was me, but then he heard John giggling. Daddy was shocked by the water just stopping. I was pleased because John accomplished everything I asked him this morning. And John thought it was hilarious.

Typical morning

The kids went back to school on Wednesday after staying home two days. John was excited to be back but Gillian was not. Daddy picked the kids up from school that night and was informed that Gillian had a fever and could not go to school on Thursday. Daddy stayed home with Gillian today. I got up with John and the two of us got in the car and went to the bank. John was super excited to come inside the bank and push all the buttons on the ATM. In the car on our way to school, John says "Mommy? Are we going home or going to school?" I told him we were going to school. He says "Wait a minute! We're missing something! Where's Gill?"

Yup, a typical morning.