She bathes in Evian......or Crocs.

We have had a busy week. I mostly watched my friends' kids this week, so from Tuesday to Thursday I never left the house. On Wednesday I made this beautiful grocery list, and I spent a lot of time making it. What is a beautiful grocery list, you ask? It is organized into sections of the store, Dairy, Produce, Meats, Misc Home, Misc Food, and Frozen. I had complied a menu for this week and part of next, and written all the ingredients I needed to make those meals. I even made a separate menu for the fridge, and the cookbook/page numbers were written next to each meal. Then the best thing happened, Lincoln said, "I'll go to the store for you." Woohoo! I hate to shop, especially when I am tired. I set the meal list and grocery list on the counter by the microwave when I was clearing the table for dinner. When I went to pick it up later it had vanished into thin air. "Natalia," was my first thought. All four of us searched this house. Natalia asked for a piece of gum (nothing new) and I told her if she found my grocery list I would give her TWO! She said "I will chew two pieces of gum in two minutes! I will be right back!" She came back with a tuber (as in Tubers and Zots). I ran up stairs as started a bath for the kids, came back down and kept searching. Talia came up to me a few minutes later, okay MANY minutes later, and said "The bath is ready, I turned it off." Oops. Forgot about that. I hope they enjoyed such a deep bath. =) Anyway, I sent them up to get in (I tested it, not boiling hot), and came up right after them. Talia was already sitting in the tub with her hot pink crocs on! What a nut, she wasn't wearing them when I sent her upstairs! The wonderful grocery list was never found, until today....Sunday. Lincoln came home early from church. (story below) He got some crayons out for Talia, and my list was inside a craft box with green foamies stuck all over the back. I knew she had taken it!

We drove two cars to church today. Lincoln was going to drop his off at the mechanics after church. The alignment has been pulling to the left, but it miraculously fixed itself after he put air in his tires. =) After dropping Talia off in the nursery, they gave her back to us five minutes later! Why? Because she was coughing! Raise your hand if you have EVER heard Natalia cough. Does she sound like she has the croup even when she is healthy? Yes. Did she get the nickname "Baby Darth" when she was two weeks old for breathing like him? Yes. They did say she coughed up some gunk, which is not like her. That is probably why she was coughing, but she hasn't coughed again all day. I just laughed. I am going to get a note from my doctor, not really for the nursery at church....but for the childcare center at the gym. I do not want to get pulled out of the water and sent home, because she is coughing. Luckily we had two cars, so Lincoln just took her home instead of trying to chase her for two hours in the hall.

Oh, this post is getting too long. Short version for everything else.

Lincoln and I went on a double date with Christie and Brent to the Cheesecake Factory. Yum.

Saturday morning I got to go shopping with Christie. I got tons of cute stuff and it was all on sale.

We picked up our sitters, that happened to be friends, on our way home. We told them they could get together with our kids and walk to the tot lot. They did and had such a good time (the sitters and the kids). They also planned dinner together, and made cookies. Natalia was covered in chocolate when I got home, I wonder how many cookies she ate?

We went to the Renaissance Festival, and had a wonderful time. I could sit in one spot and just people watch for hours. There are some crazy people there! We didn't have a lot of time to spend, because we spent over an hour sitting in traffic on the way there. While we were walking the mile through the parking lot to the festival, we passed a super drunk woman (it was 3:00 pm) who was dressed very elaborately. She was walking with a man that was even more elaborately dressed. She was walking crazy zigzags through cars, and he said "Where are you going?". She replied "Somewhere where my feet don't hurt!" Isn't that the funniest thing? I will quote her for the rest of my life. It was so nice to go without the kids. We looked in just about every shop! We tried some crazy food, and some how all I ate the entire time was desserts! I had an ice cream sundae in a waffle bowl, a deep fried snickers, and a chocolate dipped frozen banana. When I got home I wanted to die, and I wanted something super healthy to eat. Lincoln was willing to run to the store to get me a watermelon! This was the last weekend for the festival and I am glad we were able to sneak in a visit.

When we got home I had to put chocolate dipped Natalia in the tub. I was helping Wyatt out of his shirt, and heard a spraying noise. I turned around and Talia was emptying a bottle of evian water into her bath. It was a new bottle, I had only taken two drinks out it. She wanted to play with the bottle in the tub, because it had a squeeze top.

Here are a few funny things Wyatt said this week.

*Lincoln wanted to have venison for dinner again. I said, "Please don't make me eat that today!" Wyatt said, "Mom, you could just have a delicious salad!"

*One morning I was in his room, and asked Wyatt to make his bed. He started making it and said, "I am going to make it nice, like the maids!" Rude, I guess all those times I made it, it wasn't nice. =)


*We were at Costco with Christina and Eli for lunch. I needed to run and grab milk. (Ya right, that is all I left with!) I put both kids in the cart, which looked a little funny because Wyatt is so big. I just didn't want to deal with dawdling. On the way out of the store, Wyatt located both ends of the seat belt. He tried to pull them together, but only made it as far as his sides. Then he looked at me and asked "Does this come in a larger size?" I laughed all the way to the car.