Thurs, Friday and Whew! The weekend!

So Thursday afternoon the neighbor had all the little neighbor girls over for a tea party in their fancy princess dresses.  See pictures below (L to R Vivian, Janae, Haley).  Friday afternoon Vivian had Janae over and we made sugar cookies (see picture). Friday night Dan and I had tickets to "So You Think You Can Dance" live tour.  The seats weren't bad and the show was really good.  It was fun to see the people in real life and see them perform some of my favorite numbers from the show.  Dan said it was surprisingly entertaining.  (see pictures).

Saturday morning Dan took the kids to they gym to workout and I met Jenn, Avery and Jenn's mom at the Overland Park Fall Festival.  It was a perfect day for it!  Great food! Tons of booths with hand made crafts, clothes, etc.  Somehow the only thing I came home with was a jar of VERY hot salsa for Dan.  Vivian got her haircut on Saturday afternoon, just a trim, she has school pictures next week. (see pictures).

I bought new drapes for the Family Room and spent the rest of the weekend running around so that I could find the rods and hooks I wanted for them....and I'm still not done.  Vivian ran around with me for a little while on Sunday and in the car she wanted me to fold a piece of paper.  So I rolled it up and she said "mom I'd prefer you use tape"  Oh so you'd PREFER that I use tape....well ok then.  Such a vocabulary for 3 1/2.

Last week Dan came home, think it was Thursday night and the kids were eating dinner.  Usually they go running to the door to greet him.  He came inside and they were sitting at the table and were being pretty quiet. Dan said why is everyone so quiet...then he noticed that mom had tied them to the chair with dishtowels and they weren't very happy.  They constantly get up from the table and don't sit and eat so after telling them both 3 times to sit down I brought out the towel.  Now with Vivian I only have to threaten the towel, but sad to say Henry got tied to the chair on Sunday.

Vivian can still be a bit of a bully to Henry so when she does something to him (ie. hit him, take a toy from him, etc) Dan always says "do you want me to do that to you?"  Well Sunday night in the bath Henry pulled Vivian's hair and she said "do you want me to do that to you?" and pulled his hair.  Then after bath Henry hit her and she said "do you want me to do that to you?" Neither of us could scold her cause we were laughing...Dan more so than me.  Oh, so fun to have everything you say to you kids to come back and bite you in the ass.  :-)

Vivian has learned to climb our small tree out front. (see pictures) Thanks to the older neighbor kids and our cul de sac parties. 

Have a good week!