Thud in the night

Late last night Daddy and I heard a thud. I went running into Gillian's room. I found Gillian climbing back into her bed with a rag doll. I asked her if she was okay. She just nodded. She snuggles under her blanket with her rag doll. I asked her again if she was okay. She nodded again. I asked her if she wanted music. Again she nodded. I put her music on and tucked her in. I think she was asleep the whole time.

Timeout

Lately Gillian has been putting her babies in timeout. She puts them on the stairs, whispers something to them and walks away. After a few minutes she will go back to the babies and take one out. I like to ask her why the babies are in timeout. She replies "Pushing." Sometimes she says "Baby hit. Baby not nice!"

Today I picked up the kids from school and I was informed that Gillian was not a good girl. Gillian pushed one of her best friends. You could see Gillian was guilty of pushing her friend. She is too much like Mommy. She can't hide her emotions well. Anyway, I told the teacher about how Gillian puts her babies in timeout for pushing. Her teacher said its because Gillian hears the boys get in trouble all day long for pushing.

Random people

I don't know if it is just my kids or it's me. But we attract the most random people. Today we were eating lunch in the food court at Monmouth Mall. A little old lady passes by our table and starts waving at Gillian. Gillian saw the old lady and started to squirm in her chair. Well the old lady came right up to Gillian and started talking to her. That was too much for Gillian and she completely fell off her chair. She didn't get hurt. She just slid off the chair onto the floor. The lady felt so bad. Gillian was her typical dramatic self an cried which made the lady feel really bad. I found out that she was a grandma and has 7 grand kids that are all grown up. She was walking past our table to go cash in a lotto ticket and just had to say hello to Gillian. Gillian finally calmed down and we finished our lunch. The lady came back and brought John and Gillian some fruit snacks she bought at the connivence store. She felt so bad. She didn't want Gillian to fall off the chair. Luckily John was on his best behavior. John shook her hand and said hello. I felt bad for that sweet lady. She just wanted to say hello to my kids and was greeted with tears.

Trampoline

Tonight Gillian pulled all the cushions off of the couch. She started jumping up and down on the cushion-less couch. She would jump up and land on her tushy and she would laugh. John noticed what she was doing and had to join her. The two of them jumped together and laughed. I know we should have stopped them but they were so happy. They started to get a little crazy so we told them to stop and relax. After a short break they started jumping again. They were very good for awhile but then they got out of control. So we had them stop. I suggested that John build a pillow fort. John replied "that's exactly what I was thinking!" The two of them built a little fort. That took a lot longer than usual because Gillian kept knocking down the walls. I am so happy with how well they were getting along tonight.

Cake

The kids and I had a relaxing night at home. I made grilled cheese sandwiches for dinner and put on John's favorite movie (this week): Popper's Penguins. I asked John to explain the movie to Gillian. He said "Gilly, there's this one penguin his name is Loudy. And he's really noisy." That's how he explained the movie. I think he touched on all the plot points.

After we ate dinner and I cleaned up, we moved our movie night to my room. Gillian brought her blanket and Kertmit too. Gillian kept covering me with her blanket and telling me to go to sleep. She would also rub my belly too. So relaxing. At some point she decided to sit on my belly. She started playing with my charm bracelet. She saw my cupcake charm and said "cake!" And she pretended to take a piece and feed it to me. Then she took a piece and ate some too. "Yummy! Cake!" I just love her imagination.

Friends

I love that Gillian is becoming like John. She has her little group of "friends" that have to join her in bed. John calls his stuffed animals his "friends." Every night when I check on her I take some of the friends out of her bed, but yet every morning she has them in bed with her. Right now she has Kermit, Scout, butterfly pillow pet, Eeyore, rag doll, lambie, and bear. There is barely any room for Gillian. I think we need a bigger bed.

Rain, desserts and Olympics

Wednesday is water day at school. The teachers had a little pool and a beach ball sprinkler set up when I dropped the kids off at school. It was supposed to rain today so I didn't think the kids would get a chance to play outside. I asked John tonight if he got to do water day today. He said "First it was on and then we were going to go outside and then it was cancelled. Cause it was raining. And then it stopped raining and we went outside. And I felt a raindrop on my head. But it was from the beach ball."

After dinner and bath John asked "What's for dessert?" I told him he could go upstairs and get something out of the snack box. He goes upstairs and comes down with one Kit Kat bar. We sent him back upstairs to get something for Gillian. He came back downstairs with a box of raisins. Really? Raisins?

I let John stay up late tonight. He really wanted to watch some of the Olympics. Daddy and I love watching the Olympics so over the past couple of days John has learned a lot. He says to me "I'm going to be in the Olympics for running. Cause I'm fast and I'm good at jumping." I asked him if he would run short or long distance. He didn't hesitate and said "Long!" Then he got off the bed and ran around my bedroom. He also turned over a laundry basket and put it in the middle of the floor. I must have give him a crazy look because he said "What? I'm not going to jump over the bed!" He then ran and "jumped" over the laundry basket. He did it a few more times until he needed "a rest." We watched some more of the synchronized diving. He loved when then did the backward dives. "Mommy. I like the backwards the best. Did you see that?" He gives the best play by play. I highly recommend watching any event with John.