Kid Friendly

Well, kids are officially back to school. It has been a crazy couple days.

Thursday we finished up school clothes shopping. Let me tell you, I was thoroughly impressed by God for that too. I am a complete bargain shopper. I will NOT buy clothes at full price unless it is a major need. I only shop at the clearance racks, goodwill, Ross, etc. So we started at Target. The racks had been picked through so I decided we had to go to Wal-Mart…I was not looking forward to it. When we got to the clearance rack the first thing that caught my eye was a very cute Hannah Montana dress. Price: $1.00. What?! No way! It was the size that I needed and there were two!! My girls and I were SO excited. We found deal after deal after deal. I spent about $40 and wound up with 4 dresses, 2 2-piece outfits, and 2 shirts. It was a steal!

Did the meet the teacher thing that night and ran into some issues there, but we’re all good now.

Girls did their first day Friday. Went GREAT! This was my four year olds first day at sissy’s school. They wore their matching Hannah Montana dresses. So cute!

Saturday, after work, my husband and I took the entire brood to the water park. (We have a case of yours, mine, and ours. I had one, he had two and together we have one. His two come see us every other weekend.) They had a great time. My husband did not enjoy it so much. Only because there was a bee hive forming by the trash cans and he seems to be deathly afraid of anything that stings. Needless to say, between the kids running around and my husband running from bees, we all slept very well.

Sunday I got to teach the children’s Sunday School. I had had an idea inspired by the book Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers. (There are a million and one things that that book has inspired me to do. Read it and I promise you will be forever changed.) The idea was a prayer box, in which you write a prayer on a little piece of paper, put it in the box and let God do the rest. The best part is you can open it at a later date and see that your prayers have been answered. Now for those that were not answered this teaches us about patience, needs and wants, and God’s timing. I didn’t get into too much of this last part, but we did speak a lot about prayer. In fact, our lesson was The Lords Prayer which I picked up from this great site called DLTK. The kids loved the boxes and my hope is that they will use them. So I will be asking regularly.

 After church on to more kid fun! We went to my only niece’s 3^rd Birthday Party. It was held at this great place called Kaleidoscope. This place was completely kid friendly. Here are some pics of that. (Sorry for the quality guys, for the moment I only have a phone for pics.)

Here is my Riley with the Birthday girl Kendall. There is a stage here with tons of outfits to dress up in. The kids dress behind the curtains then come out in whatever concoction of clothing they have come up with.

 

 Alexis & Daddy on a climbing wall.

 Here is Kendall the birthday girl in all her glory. She is wearing the tiara we gave her along with a cute little ballerina outfit that her mommy got her. She typically has a much prettier smile but her daddy wanted a picture before she opened more presents and you can see in her eye she was thinking about punching him.

If you are in Tulsa and looking for some good indoor fun anytime of the year for your kids up to age 12, this is the place.

After the birthday party I thought it would be a good time for everyone to take a nap. Really, what’s better on Sundays than a nap? Apparently I was the only one with this idea, but after an hour of that I felt refreshed enough to…..do laundry and watch a movie. (Hey, that takes some energy people.)

Well, I had wanted to post up to this point last night, but with the busy week we've been having I could stay up no longer. So I've added more kid fun and am posting now.

Yesterday, Monday, I decided we should go see Shrek Ever After. So we went to the dollar movies and had a great time. After the movie my husband and I had a heated debate about wether there were three or four Shrek movies. At some point he wanted to put money on it. "Fifty Dollars." He says. I should have taken him up on it, but instead said, "How about five?" So now that we have placed our bets on whether Shrek has three or four movies the discussion is over. Well, if you don't know already there are four and I WON! Really wish I would have taken him up on that fifty, but when someone who watches iCarly, Big Time Rush and Spongebob all day with the girls says he knows his Shrek, I have to think twice about if I really know Shrek. 

This morning I had a bit of an issue maybe you can help me with. My girls, 4 and 7 (Gonna be 8 tomorrow!), got their ears pierced this summer. A friend at work bought them some earings so this morning I tried to switch them and they both ended up crying about how it hurt when I tried to take the originals ones out. (The 7 almost 8 yr old reared back to hit me...it was bad.) I decided to leave them alone but am a little concerned as to why it hurt so bad. Any thoughts? I can't really remember if I had any issues switching out my earings for the first time.

So how has your back to school experience been? Have you had any fun with some great kids lately? How about any gambling on what happens on the 198th episode of Spongebob? Any newly pierced ears to talk about?