Vivian had her dance recital dress rehearsal last week. Her recital is May 29th- Saturday night. I'm so excited!! Hoping she will do well...my stomach will probably be in knots all day. She can be very hard on herself and I can see her having a meltdown or getting upset if she messes up. Let's hope that isn't the case. If so i'm sure I will be in tears the whole time in the audience. My mom said I stood on stage and cried during my first recital, but Vivian isn't shy like I was a child. She's much more like her dad!
Friday night Dan surprised me with a babysitter and we went to a movie and had a late dinner. We saw Something Borrowed. It was my pick since last time I had to go see True Grit - clearly not my choice. So Dan got to see a romantic chick flick! It was nice to get out and we've haven't done that since my birthday.
Saturday we took the kids to Toys R Us so Vivian could use her butterfly gift card from Aunt Buffy. She told Henry he could get a toy and that mom and dad could get a shirt. Not sure they have adult clothes there, but it was sweet that she wanted to share.
Saturday night we had a late night. The weather was really bad west of KC so after the kids went to bed Dan and I sat in the garage watching the storm roll in. All was well and good until there were 4 tornados an hour away from us. I went upstairs to climb in bed and watch the news about 11 p.m. About 11:30 the sirens went off. I grabbed my phone and tennis shoes and headed downstairs. Dan of course was totally making fun of me. I normally wouldn't have shuttled the whole family downstairs but since there were 4 tornados already on the ground Dan didn't get me much pushback. We set up camp in the basement and grabbed the kiddos and dogs. Dan and Vivian fell asleep shortly after we got downstairs. I stayed up to make sure we weren't in harms way....Henry stayed up with me. So finally at 1 a.m. when the storm had passed I took Henry back up to his room to sleep. He still hadn't settled down. I slept on his floor until he fell asleep - he slept next to me on the floor. Around 2 a.m. I went back to my own bed and Henry was up at 6:45 a.m. A pretty short night for mom. Dan and Vivian slept downstairs all night and strolled upstairs about 8:45 in the morning. When we were in our old house the sirens went off and i think we just had Vivian at the time and Dan made so much fun of me for grabbing my tennis shoes and for putting shoes on Vivian. So he was laughing pretty hard when I can barreling down the stairs last night with shoes in hand.
Sunday while I was starting dinner and the kids were outside, fighting over these new chairs we got to set outside of their playhouse. Vivian screamed at Henry and I could tell this was going nowhere good I headed to the backyard. By the time I got outside they were pushing each other and hitting each other. Henry hit Vivian in the face and Vivian pushed/hit him back. I intervened and sent them both to time out. They get so physical with each other when they don't get what they want. It will be interesting to see how that pans out in a few years. :-) Enjoy the pictures and have a good week! I had a few more pictures but i'm having trouble uploading them. i will try later this week to upload again.
