Before I break down yesterday, I have to mention that the title of this post is a shout out to Saturday morning tv, and SBTB.
Yesterday was a good day, Beth dropped off and picked up. The kids were good at Susan's and good last night up to the actual point of going to bed. We had pizza for dinner, Beth and the kids warm pizza, but since I had to work a little late I got cold pizza. (I know I could warm it up, but reheated thin and crispy is not very good.)
Yesterday during lunch Beth went shopping for Halloween costumes. During the entire time she was gone on her trip Mas kept talking to me, and complete strangers about what he wanted to be for Halloween. He was going to be Batman, and Madi was going to be a mix between Big Bird and a Super Girl. I think Beth may have had some issues finding that mix so she made an audible at the line and just went for a Super Girl. Last night we tried on their alter egos and let them walk around for awhile. I noticed a few things while they were in Super Hero mode... Mas is extremely vain! He stood in front of the full length mirror for several minutes, not moving just standing there practicing saying "Ra's Al Ghul" & "I'm Batman!" Madi on the other hand does not need the outfit for confidence, she knows she doesn't have to hide behind a mask. I think Beth took a few pictures, but I think it is best to wait until Halloween for the Heroes to be seen in person. Plus as I was thinking back did Batman ever have his picture taken? I know Superman, Spiderman, and Ironman had their faces plastered all over the news papers.
After Batman and Super Girl got back into their street clothes, and went back to being Mas and Madi, we played for a while. Mas and I wrestled and he said something that was wise beyond his years. I must preface with the fact that he has not seen The Dark Knight or Rises. He told me that he may not be dressed as Batman anymore, but it was not the suit that made the person, but him that made the suit. I wanted to ask him "And why do we fall, Mason?" to see if he responded " So we can learn to pick ourselves up ..."
As I mentioned the kids were good until bed time, they didn't want to go to sleep. Beth blamed me for being a good cop the whole time she was gone, and now they don't want to go to sleep. But I really wasn't, I think they knew that mom was on a trip and so crying for her was futile. Plus I think they missed mommy so much during that day that it wore them out. Mas did wake up about 10:15 yelling for me, and when I went in there he told me he didn't want to sleep, and wasn't tired... but his eyes were closed the whole time. Then he asked for a drink, so I got him a very small cup of chocolate milk I got at the store earlier in the day. But I grabbed the wrong type, I got skim milk. He took one drink, then handed me the cup and said it tasted weird, and went back to sleep. That is a true blind taste test!
M&m
3.10.12
The Pick up Day
As many of you know yesterday was the day the kids and I had been counting down to since 10 am Sept 21.... the day mommy comes home.
As a final "treat" to the kids, I let them sleep in the bed with me Monday night, and I kept them up until 9:30 thinking they would sleep in some, allowing Dada to sleep in some as well. I was wrong. Mas woke up at 6:50, and wanted me to go out in the living room and lay with him on the couch as we watched tv. Madi woke up an hour later, I guess she got the memo, Mas did not.
The morning was quite uneventful, they watched the Cat in the Hat movie twice, and played with their toys, while I finished some miscellaneous cleaning and tidying up. Madi and i did the last small load of laundry so when Beth got home it was all hers. We ate an early lunch, 10:30, to prepare ourselves for an early dinner. I tried several different ways to get them to go to take their naps, nothing was really working, they were wired for mommy's return. They ended up laying on the couch watching tv, and every once in awhile would start to doze off before the other one would make a comment and wake the other up. Such is life.
At about 1:30, after I dis-bearded, we loaded up in the car to make our trek to west ICT. The flight did not come in until 3:30 so we had some time to kill, and since the kids were good almost the entire time Beth was gone, I took them out to see Uncle Andrew at All Star. Nothing is better then having a connection at a place like that to get me free tokens. We played there for about 45 minutes, at a hot dog that Uncle Andy cooked for us, and thanked him for the good time. For the record, the best time to go to a place like that is early afternoon on a Tuesday.... It was empty with the exception of a few golf guys on the driving range.
When we got to the airport, we met Grammy inside who was already there, and the kids ran around playing with O. Ram. Then the moment we were waiting for happened.... It was like in a movie, the song Dream Weaver came on in my head, the outside of my vision got cloudy, and everyone was walking in slow motion. Beth was walking down the tunnel! Mas and Madi were to busy messing with a chair to see her at first. But when we pointed she was walking up to us, they both went frozen, and didn't know what to do, I think their brains were telling them to run, but they couldn't move. The eventually ran to her and Madi would not stop giving her hugs. After the reunion we retreated to the baggage claim, where Mas was more interested in watching where the bags went AFTER no one picked them up. He just stood over at the end of the belt, and every time a bag would go through he would duck down and see if he could see farther back in there.
After getting her bags and saying goodbye to her UG team, we headed to the car, and got ready to fill our ears with UG stories, our stomachs with TX Roadhouse, and our hearts with love. Mommy told us a few stories, we told her some stories. It IS good to have her back.
We finished the night by watching The Cat in the Hat, because Mas had told her earlier that she had to watch it with him. And then went to bed, all four of us were quite tired. this trip took a lot out of us all!
(Side Note)
I am pretty sure I could put on Driving Miss Daisy, and Mas would want to watch that endlessly. I don't know if he cares about the plot of the movies or the characters, or if that fact that something new is on the tv that he has not seen 1000 times.
As a final "treat" to the kids, I let them sleep in the bed with me Monday night, and I kept them up until 9:30 thinking they would sleep in some, allowing Dada to sleep in some as well. I was wrong. Mas woke up at 6:50, and wanted me to go out in the living room and lay with him on the couch as we watched tv. Madi woke up an hour later, I guess she got the memo, Mas did not.
The morning was quite uneventful, they watched the Cat in the Hat movie twice, and played with their toys, while I finished some miscellaneous cleaning and tidying up. Madi and i did the last small load of laundry so when Beth got home it was all hers. We ate an early lunch, 10:30, to prepare ourselves for an early dinner. I tried several different ways to get them to go to take their naps, nothing was really working, they were wired for mommy's return. They ended up laying on the couch watching tv, and every once in awhile would start to doze off before the other one would make a comment and wake the other up. Such is life.
At about 1:30, after I dis-bearded, we loaded up in the car to make our trek to west ICT. The flight did not come in until 3:30 so we had some time to kill, and since the kids were good almost the entire time Beth was gone, I took them out to see Uncle Andrew at All Star. Nothing is better then having a connection at a place like that to get me free tokens. We played there for about 45 minutes, at a hot dog that Uncle Andy cooked for us, and thanked him for the good time. For the record, the best time to go to a place like that is early afternoon on a Tuesday.... It was empty with the exception of a few golf guys on the driving range.
When we got to the airport, we met Grammy inside who was already there, and the kids ran around playing with O. Ram. Then the moment we were waiting for happened.... It was like in a movie, the song Dream Weaver came on in my head, the outside of my vision got cloudy, and everyone was walking in slow motion. Beth was walking down the tunnel! Mas and Madi were to busy messing with a chair to see her at first. But when we pointed she was walking up to us, they both went frozen, and didn't know what to do, I think their brains were telling them to run, but they couldn't move. The eventually ran to her and Madi would not stop giving her hugs. After the reunion we retreated to the baggage claim, where Mas was more interested in watching where the bags went AFTER no one picked them up. He just stood over at the end of the belt, and every time a bag would go through he would duck down and see if he could see farther back in there.
After getting her bags and saying goodbye to her UG team, we headed to the car, and got ready to fill our ears with UG stories, our stomachs with TX Roadhouse, and our hearts with love. Mommy told us a few stories, we told her some stories. It IS good to have her back.
We finished the night by watching The Cat in the Hat, because Mas had told her earlier that she had to watch it with him. And then went to bed, all four of us were quite tired. this trip took a lot out of us all!
(Side Note)
I am pretty sure I could put on Driving Miss Daisy, and Mas would want to watch that endlessly. I don't know if he cares about the plot of the movies or the characters, or if that fact that something new is on the tv that he has not seen 1000 times.
2.10.12
Final Schafers in America themed update - 10/1/12
Well, this series has been enjoyable to write, and will provide memories all involved. But mostly mommy who arrives home today after her trip to Africa.
I think the kids were over excited yesterday, which had them hyper and moody. That is me prefacing that they had a bad day. Hitting, kicking, yelling, calling names. (M&m's are not sweet all the time ;). I didn't have a good day either which compounded the issue. I had people verbally hitting, kicking, yelling, and calling names... But this blog is not about me.
So after pick up we went to get Mad a haircut. He did really well, he went back by himself and talked to the lady very well while Madi and I sat out front. When she asked Mas what he was going to be for Halloween he told her, Batman. Then proceeded to inform her that I was Big Bird when I was a kid... You know the yellow one. We went to Freddys for dinner, but purposely told them we were not getting ice cream.
After we got home, the 3 of us Schafers in America butted heads for about 30 minutes. But after sitting down and talking we each saw the others point of view, and worked on our last of cleaning before mommy gets home. After completion we got out the guitars and played and danced. (I wanted to wear them out so I could sleep in the morning. I took the day off to squeeze out the last few adventures with the 3 amigos)
They went to bed fairly well, a little talkative. But like usual, when Madi decides to do something she does it 100%, and she was tired. Mas on the other hand will hold on from sleeping for as long as humanly possible.
Editors note:
I have not decided on the next theme of titles, so if you a recommendation please let me know. And as always thank you for reading!
I think the kids were over excited yesterday, which had them hyper and moody. That is me prefacing that they had a bad day. Hitting, kicking, yelling, calling names. (M&m's are not sweet all the time ;). I didn't have a good day either which compounded the issue. I had people verbally hitting, kicking, yelling, and calling names... But this blog is not about me.
So after pick up we went to get Mad a haircut. He did really well, he went back by himself and talked to the lady very well while Madi and I sat out front. When she asked Mas what he was going to be for Halloween he told her, Batman. Then proceeded to inform her that I was Big Bird when I was a kid... You know the yellow one. We went to Freddys for dinner, but purposely told them we were not getting ice cream.
After we got home, the 3 of us Schafers in America butted heads for about 30 minutes. But after sitting down and talking we each saw the others point of view, and worked on our last of cleaning before mommy gets home. After completion we got out the guitars and played and danced. (I wanted to wear them out so I could sleep in the morning. I took the day off to squeeze out the last few adventures with the 3 amigos)
They went to bed fairly well, a little talkative. But like usual, when Madi decides to do something she does it 100%, and she was tired. Mas on the other hand will hold on from sleeping for as long as humanly possible.
Editors note:
I have not decided on the next theme of titles, so if you a recommendation please let me know. And as always thank you for reading!
1.10.12
Schafers in America 9/30/2012
The kids spent the weekend at Grandpa Bob's and Grandma Sue's house, as you could tell from the last two entries. But there is still plenty to update about from yesterday afternoon....
First I need to lead off with Grandpa teaching Mas to be a Tom Jones fan, and getting him to sing "What's New Pussycat" that made the ride home interesting. Once we got off singing that, we moved to the I Miss game. Mas kept telling me that he missed me this weekend, and asking Madi if she missed me, and her response was "NO! I miss my mommy!" Then Mas would say "Well I missed my daddy" this went on for about 10 cycles. When we got home we unloaded the car and went and did their laundry from the weekend, and started to make dinner before we head off to church.
Dinner was fine, nothing exciting, and church went off without a hitch. On the way home though (I am starting to see a trend here with talks in the car) Mas was telling us all about the picture that he drew. There was mommy, daddy, Madi, him, Jesus, God, and a zombie. God is the one with the big head, he knows a lot of stuff. Jesus is the one fighting the zombie, while we all sit back and watch and laugh. On the other side of the paper is just Mas when is is older, it is how big he will be when he is 5! But he didn't have to draw God on that side because he is on the other side and is always watching, and can see though paper.
We got home and put our pj's on, watched a Bubble Guppies, then went off to bed. Mas and I sat on the bed and read a book, while Madi sat next to us having this little rubber lizard attack one of her babies. Every time the lizard would "bite" the baby, Madi would squeeze the baby and make her cry, which when she saw I noticed what she was doing made her laugh, so she did it again, and again. It made reading time interesting.
Madi woke up screaming at 11 and would not go back to sleep, so I got a buddy in my bed last night. Though like typical Madi she pushed me all the way off my pillow, and even in her sleep wanted to let me know that she was the boss, and if I took up too much space or she didn't like how I was laying. I got pretty good sleep in spite of that.
First I need to lead off with Grandpa teaching Mas to be a Tom Jones fan, and getting him to sing "What's New Pussycat" that made the ride home interesting. Once we got off singing that, we moved to the I Miss game. Mas kept telling me that he missed me this weekend, and asking Madi if she missed me, and her response was "NO! I miss my mommy!" Then Mas would say "Well I missed my daddy" this went on for about 10 cycles. When we got home we unloaded the car and went and did their laundry from the weekend, and started to make dinner before we head off to church.
Dinner was fine, nothing exciting, and church went off without a hitch. On the way home though (I am starting to see a trend here with talks in the car) Mas was telling us all about the picture that he drew. There was mommy, daddy, Madi, him, Jesus, God, and a zombie. God is the one with the big head, he knows a lot of stuff. Jesus is the one fighting the zombie, while we all sit back and watch and laugh. On the other side of the paper is just Mas when is is older, it is how big he will be when he is 5! But he didn't have to draw God on that side because he is on the other side and is always watching, and can see though paper.
We got home and put our pj's on, watched a Bubble Guppies, then went off to bed. Mas and I sat on the bed and read a book, while Madi sat next to us having this little rubber lizard attack one of her babies. Every time the lizard would "bite" the baby, Madi would squeeze the baby and make her cry, which when she saw I noticed what she was doing made her laugh, so she did it again, and again. It made reading time interesting.
Madi woke up screaming at 11 and would not go back to sleep, so I got a buddy in my bed last night. Though like typical Madi she pushed me all the way off my pillow, and even in her sleep wanted to let me know that she was the boss, and if I took up too much space or she didn't like how I was laying. I got pretty good sleep in spite of that.
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