Better today :)

Today was a much better day than yesterday. The girls went to bed at 5:30 last night (they hadn't taken naps and it was showing). Emily didn't really go right to sleep...but she eventually fell asleep. The other 2 were out pretty quickly. They all slept until 6:00 this morning.

We got up and had plans to go up to MA to visit my cousins. My cousin Kate owns a dance studio and she had her recital rehearsal today so we wanted to go watch. We ended up going early to visit Meme and Grumps...so nice to get to visit with them! The girls did fantastic to say the least. We were in Friendly's for 2 hours - and they didn't whine or cry about anything. They ate their whole meals, plus some of ours, plus some ice cream. After we left there we headed to the recital and stayed there for about an hour and 1/2 before heading home.

Once home we played outside for a bit and my brothers Peter & Andy came over to visit. We bought some stuff to cook out on the grill and had a cookout. Burgers, hot dogs and chicken.

Pete and I gave the girls baths again tonight (they needed it!). For some reason bath time was a mess tonight. They just weren't very cooperative and not in the mood to listen. But we managed to get through it and then we did the rest of our usual night time thing. Hannah was a bit antsy and wanted more kisses and her back rubbed and...and....and...(yes - already at the age of 2 she has realized that the more she asks for - the later she stays up). I don't put up with it much. But she was really crying while I was cleaning up their mess in the bathroom and I could hear her saying (between crying sobs) "But.....mama.....kiss....Hannah.......onthemouth!" LOL - when I gave her the 4th and final kiss of the evening I kissed her on the forehead. She was upset that I didn't actually kiss her on the mouth and say goodnight. So I went back in, kissed her on the mouth and said goodnight. She went right to sleep after that.

The kitchen was cleaned up by the time we came downstairs (hehe...why do you think we invite Andy over for dinner?) so that gave us some time....to play Wii!!! Andy, Peter and I played Wii bowling - with a twist. When we weren't actually bowling - we were working out. Planks, squats, push ups, sit ups, jumping jacks, running in place, mountain climbers.........we bowled 3 straight games - so it was a long work out! I'm sore.

After bowling we took advantage of having Andy here and we headed to Borders (then Barnes & Noble). Now we're home and I'm ready for sleep.