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Balloon Races

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I debated about taking the older two girls to see the balloon races this year. I figured that I’d take LB and C Bear, and leave my husband with Little N at home. But then I thought it’s early, I’d be on my own, it would be a lot of walking with stuff, etc., etc. I was ready to do it, but after talking to my husband about it, I decided against it. We’d wait one more year we decided. Then our plans changed. We got a pass that would allow us to park inside the park. Less walking. So it was decided Friday night, that we would all go, and we’d to the whole thing. Glow Show, Dawn Patrol, and Mass Ascension.

Friday night I went to the store and bought doughnuts and little containers of milk to take with us in the morning. I also packed our wagon, blankets, and diaper bag the night before. Then I woke up at 3:30 am on Saturday, woke up the husband, and we proceeded to pack the rest of our stuff including hot chocolate (made with milk, yum) into our minivan. We then woke our kids up, packed them up and were on the rode a little after 4:00 am. We live about 5 minutes from the park were the balloon races take place, but our parking pass dictated that we drive around the park to the other entrance. And guess what, there was traffic! So much so that it took us roughly 30 minutes to get parked and out of the car. We found pretty good seats for the Glow Show and Dawn Patrol just outside the field where the balloons actually launch. After Dawn Patrol we packed everything up in our minivan (seriously the best car around) and headed to the field to watch the balloons launch. It was so neat to see, and to share with my girls. Little N kept yelling “balloon, balloon” and LB and C Bear figured out that they could run around and get balloon trading cards.

Overall it was worth it, if only to see it through my daughters’ eyes. It never gets old to see all the colors and balloons. I don’t think we’d go again though until our girls are old enough to walk. If I’m going to sit in my car for a half hour, I might as well walk.

Kindergarten Blues

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It happened. I had to send my second daughter off to school today. I put on a brave face for her so that she would go in thinking kindergarten is great, but on the inside I wanted her home with me. I remember being a little sad when LB started school, but not on the level that I am currently experiencing with C Bear. Couldn’t kindergarten be only three days and then I would have time with her? Couldn’t kindergarten share my daughter with me? Isn’t she supposed to be learning sharing? She was super excited, and I’m glad. I would hate for her to not like kindergarten. When I picked her up today, she seemed to like it and had fun, after all she got a smiley face on her hand made with a smelly marker. She did ask how long she had to go. My heart jumped a little that maybe she wanted me, but I think she just wanted to know her new schedule. When I told her five days a week she said, “ok,” like it was no big deal.

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While C Bear was off coloring, playing, and learning, I was at home alone and a little sad. So I went to Target (cause that’s what you do when you’re sad and want to go somewhere) and bought diapers and rainbow chip cookies to make life just a little bit better for just a little bit, and so that Little N has some diapers. This feeling of sadness started about a week ago.

The week leading up to kindergarten was a week of lasts. On Monday when I picked her up from preschool, they gave me her rest mat. She wouldn’t need it anymore because she was going to be a kindergartner. I about lost it at preschool. This was overwhelmingly sad. I even made a comment about it to one teacher, and she agreed. Her son was also starting kindergarten. Then on Tuesday she had her last morning swim lesson. We have been going to swim lessons on Tuesday morning for three years, but with her older sister already doing night swim lessons, and C Bear starting school it didn’t make sense to just have Little N. So we all go on Thursday evenings now. Much better for me, but still a little sad.

Now with LB and C Bear in school it will just be me and Little N on Tuesdays and Thursdays (I work part-time). I’m curious to see how it goes. I haven’t had just one child at home since LB was 21 months old. Who knows, I could change my mind and have another baby (not really, at least I don’t think so).

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Clothes, Clothes, and more Clothes

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As a house with three girls and a clothes obsessed mother, there are a lot of clothes. Sometimes I find it fun and exciting and other times I’m ready to get rid of all of them, and give us all uniforms of some type. Like seven red shirts and seven black pants. I usually say this when I am moving on of my girls to the next size up in clothes. This last time around, I did two girls back to back. I save ALL of my older girls’ clothes so that I can pass them down to the next one. This is a great cost savings to me, but also a great time drainer. I spend days finding the smaller size clothes around the house to pack up because they are never just in the bedroom or in the laundry. The clothes are in the diaper bag, the daycare bag, another bedroom, etc. I then have to go into the garage and grab an empty tub to put the clothes in and the next size up tub. Because I love clothes, and the girls get clothes for birthdays, there is a lot of clothes when I get to the third child. For example, Little N needed size two clothes. I brought in the I think four big tubs of clothes. I then sorted between summer and winter because there was no way all those clothes were fitting in her dresser and closet. I repeated this process a week later for C Bear. I even took one of my vacation days to wrap this process up so that I didn’t have “helpers” helping me with this process.

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I’m starting to see a light at the end of this clothes tunnel though. Why? I’ve decided that Little N is my last. So as she grows out of her clothes, I’m gifting the old clothes to my sister in law her has a little girl. Our clothing section in the garage is shrinking, and mostly because I had a LOT of baby clothes. Be not dismayed though. I am not getting rid of all the clothes. I saved all the special clothes for each of my girls. Each one has a tub (18 gallon, I think) that has all their special clothes from zero to eighteen months. I just can’t part with all their cute clothes.

C Bear remains a little fashionista. Below is her latest outfit from her “new” clothes. I tried to keep the holiday shirts out of her reach by putting them on the top shelf of her closet. Then we had a cold snap the meant she needed long sleeves shirts. I took all her long sleeve shirts down for her, and of course she found the Christmas tree shirt. Murphy’s law. Oh well. At least she’s having fun. And that, in my opinion, is what clothes should be. I dubbed this outfit Christmas in July.

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Dress Up

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Dress up in our house is serious business. It involves new names, a variety of outfits, and accessories. It wasn’t always this way. It started out with two Frozen dresses, rings, and necklaces. The girls maybe dressed up while watching Frozen, but I had to encourage it. Over the last year or so we have accumulated more dress up clothes from hand me downs, old Halloween costumes, old purses.  And in this time,  the girls have taken to dressing up. They love to get out the princess dresses, the dance tutus, the old Halloween costumes, the plastic high heels, necklaces, purses and play. When it goes well, they can play hours by themselves in their own little world. This is my favorite thing to watch. They aren’t fighting, nagging me to entertain them, or sitting in front of a screen looking like a zombie.

The latest line in dress up in our house is wigs. Yes, my husband bought them wigs at Christmas. I thought it was a little weird, but they love it. Especially the Princess Anna hat and braids. I guess I should let him buy more presents.

Below is C Bear with her dolls. She was the teacher for the day. She got all the chairs and lined them up and sat her dolls in them. She then proceeded to teach them. It’s endearing to watch.