Walking With My Bebes

Today may have been my favorite weekday staying home with the kids, to date. People ask me sometimes if I like being a stay-at-home mom, and I LOVE it, but I sometimes feel bad because I'm not that good at it. I'm just not very good at motivating myself. I'm also a person of extremes, not very balanced. So some days I actually do a decent job getting the house clean and making meals and all of that, but then I'm sad at the end of the day because I didn't play with the kids like I want to. Other days I spend every minute playing with them, or reading to them, or doing crafts, and the house is destroyed at the end of the day. But I'm always much happier on those days, because I know I was a better mom, even if I am stressed by our pig pen of a house. Today was one of those, but for some reason we had so much fun I'm not even bothered by the huge mess.

We had breakfast and got ready for the day. Then we almost immediately started our craft of the day, toilet-paper roll pilgrims and indians. They loved it. We also made a little Mayflower for them to sail to America in, and some paper food for their Thanksgiving meal, so Paige could do a little show for Jess as soon as he came home from work. So cute.
We played outside, and after lunch we decided to go for a bike ride/walk.

We got a few things we needed to drop off at Veronica's and Paige's friend Maysen's house. Paige was super proud that she could carry them in her bike basket.
Cason got ready.
Neely grabbed the necessities, a couple of toothbrushes.
And we left.
We dropped them off,
and then just kept riding/walking.
They wanted to go up and down all the streets a couple of times, so we did.
It was so nice, and I was so happy. Cason collected leaves as he walked, and said a couple of times "Mama, it's a wonderful day!" He's like his daddy, always aware of simple things like nice weather or a pretty sunset. Such a good boy.
We had the cutest and funniest talks. One was all about how some day they would probably get married and have kids. Cason was especially excited that he will be a daddy. He told me all about how he'll get "so mad and mad and mad when they won't eat their dinner", and then he'd not "let them eat cereal for a snack".

We took a couple of breaks when they were tired, because it turned into about a 45 minute ride/walk.
We did have one unhappy moment, when Cason tried to catch up to Paige, who'd gone ahead of us. He couldn't catch up so he yelled for her, and she didn't immediately stop. So he had a breakdown, sobbing facedown on the sidewalk.
It didn't last long. By the time I caught up to him he'd noticed something interesting in his puddle of tears. Ha.
Neely has still been saying "Hi" a lot, and she leaned forward in her seat and yelled "HI!" to two older men who were talking in a front yard. They laughed and told her "Hi!" Pretty soon she fell asleep in her stroller and we headed home. When she woke up we played in the backyard, and she wanted to ride on the scooter.
Then they had a bath, and were in their pajamas by 5:15 pm. Haha!