Happy Girls

It's been such a nice normal day around here today. I took the girls to the library yesterday for the first time and they LOVED it. I had really been wanting to take the time to go so we just packed up and made a fun time of it. We even stopped for happy hour at Sonic before we came home. We all thought it was a nice getaway for us girls. By the end of the evening Boo & Doodle were both able to read the books they brought home (Hanny brought home a book she had no chance of reading to herself!) After Hanny was tucked in last night (she was desperately needing some catch-up sleep) the twins hopped into my bed to tell me stories. That went on for WAY too long! Let me tell you, Boo spent last Friday night awake a good portion of the night with Papa because of her earache and she must've soaked up his story-telling skills. She was telling some real doozeys last night, along with a dud or two! One particularly laughable one was, "Five little piggies were sitting on the wall. One fell off...and the others fell off too. The End."

But back to today... As is the norm on Saturday mornings, I ran in to get groceries. Today was one of the few days I actually got to go alone. I do enjoy having one or all of them with me, but sometimes it's nice to not have to be on mommy duty. When I got home I was greeted by the little floor-cleaners as they had seen me drive into the driveway and knew they'd better get the floor picked up. They told me that they had been exercising. Yeah, that's right. They had been digging through my workout videos and were trying them out. Apparently there had been some dancing going on as well as some walking and Pilates. They could've at least chosen some of the good ones! :) While I was working in the kitchen, Hanny & Doodle found the yoga video (my personal favorite) and began about 10 minutes of yoga. It was one of the funniest things I've seen! The video begins in a seated position practicing breathing techniques. You'd have had to see it to really appreciate it, but they were both sitting cross-legged with their eyes closed, the corners of their mouths slightly turned up and their hands resting palms-up on their thighs. Too cute. It's such a relaxing workout for me and it looked like they were almost enjoying it as well.

This afternoon they are drawing some fantastic pictures. (Will, they're making very good use of the paper you brought!) Boo & Doodle drew the picture above together and were thoughtful enough to label who's who. Apparently they're in particularly good moods today as they are both labeled as "Happy" rather than "Cranky" or some other descriptive word. They've also drawn some pretty accurate family portraits. They drew one of Papa that pretty much looked like everyone else except that he had a mouth twice as big as the others... Guess I'll let you draw your own conclusion there! ;) We've already read books for an hour, Dad has played close to 20 games of Candy Land and we've baked a cake for tomorrow's church dinner. It's been nice to have a relatively quiet day at home with everybody feeling good. They are such a joy to be around, even when they're cranky... Well, maybe not so much a "joy" when they're cranky, but still a blessing.