We have learned that Braden would make an excellent job site supervisor. We have painters in this week to paint almost every room in our house. Braden is helping out a lot. I think the painters both are amused and annoyed by him. The first day he watched them use rollers and, just to make sure they knew what to do, said “Up, down, up, down…” over and over again. Painter Matt really was unhappy that his ipod wasn’t working that day!
So, speaking of painting… it has been a fun week. Kathie hosted a neighborhood Bunco party last night. Yes, we are crazy. We had painters in our house all day Wednesday and then had a party that night. Somehow we pulled it off, but it was a long three days of moving furniture, hiding toys, cleaning, helping painters, keeping kids out of wet paint and shopping. To make matters worse, one of the painters got sick, so they were short-staffed. They got the kitchen, living room, dining room and living room all done, somehow. But they didn’t get to finish the arches between the rooms, so it looked like…well… like we were in the middle of painting! But the paint dried and it looked good before the party. I’m pretty sure I’m not doing the level of chaos justice here, but I think I’m also trying to repress the memory somewhat!
And to stick with the up-down theme, I had a fun night with the kids while Kathie’s party was happening. I took them to Monkey Joe’s. MJ’s, as they call it, is a indoor, inflatable slide/climber play land. They have all kinds of inflatable climbers, bouncers, slides and obstacle courses. It was a blast! Braden and Emma both started off in the ‘beginner’ course, which is designed for kids under 3. Emma had so much static build up her hair stood up like the bride of Frankenstein.
I had to pry them away from that area to try other playgrounds. They both like the bouncer, but that wasn’t quite exciting enough for Braden. We moved over to a smaller slide. Once Emma saw Braden do it, she was all over it. It got even better when she finally realized she could just go back in without asking me to put her in it.
Braden branched out to other toys then and managed an obstacle course designed for kids a little older than him. It ended in a slide that was about 12 feet high and he loved it.
Eventually Emma got bored with her slide and started following Braden around. They found a slide that went all the way up to the ceiling. I’m not sure how high it was, but I’d guess it was over 20ft. Braden climbed right up and Emma started following. Of course she was a bit slower and Braden was able to lap her. I figured once Emma got to the top, she’d realize how high it really was and I’d be climbing up to help her down. So I was watching closely as she turned the corner to where the slide was… and she basically threw herself down the slide with no hesitation. She didn’t even stop to think about it! I figured she’d come up screaming at the bottom, but all I heard was giggling and her typical “Again, Daddy!” I was thoroughly impressed!
They also found another obstacle course that was probably a little hard for Emma, but she surprised me even more.. she climbed a ladder that had rungs almost as tall as she was.
After Mj’s we had dinner at Denny’s, since they were too busy playing to eat. I do have to say that was pretty brave on my part, because I had two very tired kids and it was 8:00 already. But the hunger override the tiredness and we had a fun dinner.
I’m very proud of both of them… they were so much fun and so well behaved.
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