ScrumpyDaddy

Posted by Rachel

Why I love Sundays…mainly my two cuties below and being able to spend time with my family.

Most mornings we get up and rush, rush, rush in order to get both kids up and dressed and get Zach fed (Abby eats breakfast at school) and then mom and dad off to work. The weekends are different and I love it!

We let the kids dictate when we get up. We let either Zach, when he is hungry, or Abby when she wakes up come in our room and get us up. It is usually Zach, but today it was Abby. She loves coming in our room and jumping into bed with us and lounging for bit. It usually doesn’t last more than 10 minutes, but we cherish them. She then wants to get up and moving for the day. There is no such thing as really sleeping in at this house. Maybe when the kids get older.

We then head downstairs for a big Sunday morning breakfast that either Dave or I or both of us make. Today it was sausage and fresh waffles. Today we gave Zach his first what I call real food. He has been on baby food for a little over a month now. He has had rice cereal, sweet potatoes, squash, carrots, peas, green beans, peaches, and now a waffle. We gave him one triangle of waffle and he loved it. He sucked on it and gummed it and ate the whole thing. He was so happy and quiet the whole meal, which is a big change. Many days he is very loud whether he is happy or upset at the table.

After breakfast we pumped up Abby’s new hippity hop we got yesterday at Toys R Us. It is a princess hopper and Mommy couldn’t resist getting it. We were there shopping for our friends kids birthdays that are coming up. FYI…don’t take a 3 year old to Toys R Us unless you want to spend hours there. Trying to get her to stop touching all the toys and move to another isle is nearly impossible. Anyways, Abby loved it. She has used them before at her preschool.

After playing inside for a while we headed outside. We built a snowman and went sledding down our hill. I’m so glad we were finally able to build a snowman here. We have been wanting to with all the snow we have gotten, but until today it had not been good packing snow to make a snowman.

Now and for the rest of the afternoon and night I will be enjoying watching the last day of the 2010 Winter Olympics. I can’t believe the 2 weeks are over already. One of the last things I will be enjoying is the gold medal hockey game. I am not sure who to cheer for though. Do I cheer for the USA and be patriotic or do I cheer for my favorite Penguin player Sidney Crosby? Either way I win because one of my teams will win. Go USA! Go Canada!