Bobby hanging out in his underwear watching Elmo and Zoi, well I'm not sure what got into her. She knows that she isn't allowed on the couch, but this morning, she did NOT care!! I can tell by her white hair on the dark brown couch that she doesn't lay there while we are gone. After all, she loves, and typically lays, on her temper-pedic bed. She just looked at me, like what are you gonna do??? "I'm laying here...get over it!!!! Woof"
Yes, Bobby is still watching Elmo.
We all finally got up, bathed and got ready to get out of the house and "blow the stink off of us," which is one of Bob's favorite sayings. Apparently we stink badly because we have to get out and blow this stink off!!
We decided to go to Walmart and get Daddy some new work pants, which he needed for Monday. Bobby doesn't like Walmart so we typically don't go when he is with us, or I go in by myself and the boys sit in the car. He hadn't been exposed to Walmart in a while, so we needed to see if he could tolerate it any better. While I was digging through the work pants trying to find the correct style and size, Bob took Bobby for a walk through the store...which did NOT go well. Bobby wanted out the back door in the tire department to the parking lot to escape from the store. Poor Bob had to try to get Bobby back into the store and get Mommy all while he is having a fit. Parental nightmare!! They finally succeeded, found me, paid for the pants and left Walmart. Too many sounds, smells, light, etc for Bobby.
Then we took Bobby to McDonald's so that he could calm down. A couple of bites of his coveted McDonald's french fries and all was right again in Bobby's world.
A group of four girls in their late teens came in and sat down behind us. I could see them get out of their cars in the parking lot and watched them walk in so I knew that they were going to the Luke Bryan concert later in the day because their cars were decorated for the event. They sat directly behind me so I could hear their conversation. At one point, I laughed out loud. Bob looked at me and I said that I would tell him later. As we walked to the car, I recounted their conversation to Bob in which they discussed how they were all going to be Luke Bryan's "Sister Wives" and that he would have a blond, brunette and a redhead all at his convenience. Ahhh, once upon a time I was a teenager too and didn't really have anything of much importance to occupy my brain. How wonderful it would be to let my brain have that kind of relief for just a little while everyday. However, they too will grow up...hopefully...and have the stresses of jobs, children and family. Who knows, they may already have major stressors in their lives, but it did bring me back to a point in my life, where all I had to worry about was grades.
Finally, we went to Michael's Arts and Crafts store before heading home. Bob and Bobby went ahead and sat in the car while I ran in and got my items. I got some wooden eggs for Bobby (as well as Grandma Carolyn and me) to dye later in the week. I also got some things to decorate the pencil tree that I use on my back porch at Christmas time to make an Easter tree for Bobby. If you recall, Bobby loves our Christmas tree and I thought that this would be a fun activity that we could do together to occupy a little time from our spring break.
I went downstairs and got the pencil tree out of storage. I also had to get into some storage containers of Christmas decorations and find some white lights. Bobby decided that he would "help" put the lights onto the tree.
Yes, that's it...they should all go right here!!!
Perfect, just clump them all in the front so that they are very visible!!
OH NO, I think he made the tree a little front heavy and over it went. Pretty sure this scared him and he ran off for a little while.
Yay, Mommy got the lights on, time to decorate!!!
I bought him a couple of "treats" while I was at Michael's...this chain that he has had in his hands since I gave it to him (and he is carrying them around this morning as I write this blog). Wish that I would have picked up a couple of more sets!! I also found this pompom chain that he tried to use to help decorate the tree...
Then he took it off so that he could have it for play.
I finally sat the camera down, which by the way is hard for me, and we got the tree decorated!!!
Poor Bobby can't decide which way to look...the tree or the falling snow!
Our finished Easter tree. A little later I walked to the kitchen and saw Bobby and knew that the Easter tree was a success....
He was just laying on the floor looking at the tree. Yes, I know....ahhhhhh how sweet!!!
Two days of spring break down, 8 to go!! Since we woke up to 4 1/2 inches of snow on the ground, day three will probably consist of some snow play!!
Then we took Bobby to McDonald's so that he could calm down. A couple of bites of his coveted McDonald's french fries and all was right again in Bobby's world.
A group of four girls in their late teens came in and sat down behind us. I could see them get out of their cars in the parking lot and watched them walk in so I knew that they were going to the Luke Bryan concert later in the day because their cars were decorated for the event. They sat directly behind me so I could hear their conversation. At one point, I laughed out loud. Bob looked at me and I said that I would tell him later. As we walked to the car, I recounted their conversation to Bob in which they discussed how they were all going to be Luke Bryan's "Sister Wives" and that he would have a blond, brunette and a redhead all at his convenience. Ahhh, once upon a time I was a teenager too and didn't really have anything of much importance to occupy my brain. How wonderful it would be to let my brain have that kind of relief for just a little while everyday. However, they too will grow up...hopefully...and have the stresses of jobs, children and family. Who knows, they may already have major stressors in their lives, but it did bring me back to a point in my life, where all I had to worry about was grades.
Finally, we went to Michael's Arts and Crafts store before heading home. Bob and Bobby went ahead and sat in the car while I ran in and got my items. I got some wooden eggs for Bobby (as well as Grandma Carolyn and me) to dye later in the week. I also got some things to decorate the pencil tree that I use on my back porch at Christmas time to make an Easter tree for Bobby. If you recall, Bobby loves our Christmas tree and I thought that this would be a fun activity that we could do together to occupy a little time from our spring break.
Two days of spring break down, 8 to go!! Since we woke up to 4 1/2 inches of snow on the ground, day three will probably consist of some snow play!!
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