Have You Ever Been So Tired...

... that you refused to sit in your seat during Sunbeams and instead fell asleep on the floor?

Tess has.

Spring Break 2015: Day Four

On day four we didn't take any pictures. But we did:

• Got Tess's hair cut (But not as short as I wanted. I told the lady 3 different times I wanted it shorter, and I'm pretty sure she only humored me and pretended to cut. Growl.)
• Went to Fresh Thyme (Super exciting, I know. But I love that store.)
• Did boat loads of laundry
• Did a bunch of stuff for Relief Society (when it rains it pours with this calling!)
• Hung out with Gigi, Logan, and Bergen
• Watched as Gigi made MY dinner (long story short: she had extras and gave it to me. Whoopee!)
• And ate the delicious dinner.

It was a good day.

Spring Break 2015: Day Three

We spent day three of Spring Break 2015 at the Children's Museum of Indianapolis. (a.k.a. The Best Children's Museum Ever.)

This included:

Seeing Bumblebee the Transformer.

Playing a game where you turn into a Transformer on the screen and your movements make the Transformer on the screen move.

Cole particularly liked seeing himself on the screen.

Spencer was really good at it.

He got the highest score!

Miss Tess wasn't interested in the game.

Just posing and looking cute,

Josh patiently went last.

And made his Transformer dance!

Josh's score.

We also played in wind tunnels...

...and water...

... and sand!

All four had to try out a real Indy race car.

And of course Spencer found a computer to play with for a while.

 I took some selfies under the Chihuly glass sculpture.

And then we spent some quality time in the dark. (Tess did much better than I expected during the planetarium show!)

We got lost for a bit in a maze of mirrors.

And then we finished the day on the carousel. (Tess was terrified of everything except sitting on the benches. This does not bode well for Disney World.)

Spring Break 2015: Day Two

On the second day of Spring Break Cole discovered that Chocolate Lucky Charms turn your milk chocolatey. Pretty quickly, too.

We stayed around the house. I cleaned and worked out and edited while the kids played and ate and made messes. We have a good system going.

Batman (aka Cole) got a little bored by the end of the day.

Tess got a little Easter confusion and started talking about her bunnies dying and being resurrected. It was just luck that I even heard her taking about it. That girl talks NON-STOP and I will be the first to admit that I don't always pay 100% attention to her. I've gotten pretty good at saying "yes" and "uh-huh" and things like that at the appropriate times. Because I'm a wonderful, wonderful mother. 😉

Spring Break 2015: Day One

Spring Break 2015: Day One included:

• Using some of the Kohl's gift card Grandpa Viggo and Grandma Joy gave us for Christmas to buy summer t-shirts, sunglasses, and little stuffed Lightening McQueens that make a five year old boy so very, very happy that he politely (!) requests a picture to be taken.

• Lunch at Subway with Daddy. Because that's the only place in the whole wide world the kids wanted to have lunch. Actually, it was kinda nice: the kids all sat at one table and Lance and I sat at another and enjoyed talking. At least until this old, super friendly guy from Logansport started talking to us. Gotta love the ultra-friendly Midwest...
• Buying everyone their own box of cereal for the week. As the expected chaos ensued down the cereal aisle, a single college guy who was walking by said something along the lines of "Cereal for spring break! That's a great idea! Can I have some, too?" Unfortunately, I'm not Midwestern friendly enough to buy strangers cereal. Perhaps I should be.

Frozen Cereal: Tess

Fruity Pebbles: Lance

Reese's Puffs: Josh

Chocolate Lucky Charms: Cole

Lucky Charms: Spencer

• A sleet/snow storm. Because it is Spring Break in Indiana, after all. (No pictures of the storm. It was too depressing.)

The Management

The idea for this sign came to me this morning. At 5:15. 

It's like the Walking Dead on school mornings, but on the first day of Spring Break? Up before dawn.

In other news, since I was up and it is no longer bitterly cold outside I decided to go for a run. I went 3.1 miles and shaved 3 minutes off of the last time I did that outside. Woo-hoo!

As I was running the sun came up and it was HUGE and BEAUTIFUL and kinda stung my eyes after a while because it was pretty bright. But it was so huge it made me think of Tatooine. And then I thought, "Wait, does Tatooine have two suns or two moons? Or is it both?" In my head I saw Luke standing on a cliff, but could not for the life of me remember if it was two moons or suns in the background. And then I thought, "You are a big nerd, Maren."  But then I thought, "I might be a big nerd, but not so big that I'm up at an ungodly hour to play video games. They get that from their father."

And with that I smugly jogged home to post my sign.

Totally Cole

Cole is refusing to learn how to put on and tie his own shoes. REFUSING. With spring/summer so close - and with it easily put-on sandals - I have decided to leave this battle for back-to-school season. Hopefully it will be easier to convince Kindergartener Cole that this is a life skill he needs to master. Because Pre-K Cole will have none of it.

The other day we were running a little late and it was quite frustrating to have to put his shoes on, especially because he just kinda lays there and refuses to help in any way.

Me: You know, it would be a really big help if you would put your own shoes on.
Cole: No.
Me: Okay. It would be a really big help if you would just untie your shoes before you bring them to me.
Cole (in his snarkiest, wow-you're-so-dumb-mom voice): WHY WOULD I DO THAT?!
And then he proceeded to give me the most exasperated look a five year old boy can give.

And that, gentle readers, is Cole in a nutshell.