Well, we got through day 2 without much of a glitch. The kids are behaving well, for the most part, unless I tire them out too much in which case meltdowns are expected. I had a really hard time sleeping last night, and I'm not sure why exactly--it could have been the strong coffee I had in the morning, I suppose. The kids slept great, for most of the night, although Kateli still woke up in my bed this morning. Our morning was non-eventful. We managed to get Sesame Street before heading out to renew the tags on the van. Did you know that they are changing ALL OK license plates?? I had no idea, but I walked away with a new license plate and tag to put on my car--which I very diligently did soon after getting home. The kids went down for a nap earlier than usual, and I didn't hear much complaining from Kateli after I told her that after nap we would go swimming and have a lot of fun. And we did just that! I made reservations at the Radisson in town for one night, and we shared a room with our friends. You can imagine how much fun it was to have 2 adults and 5 little kids (all under the age of 5) in one room, with two queens, two pak n plays, and a roll away bed. We did get in about 1.5 hours of swimming before dinner, and another 45mins after dinner before bedtime. The kids were super worn out, but somehow didn't manage to get Kateli to zonk out immediately. She rolled around in bed for about 3 hours before falling into a deep slumber. The inside pool area at the Radisson is a kids pool paradise. It's got a huge frog slide for the really little kids on the shallowest end, fountains at the "shoreline", a huge palm tree that sprinkles water on you, a huge tube slide for the bigger kids on the "deeper side", which is about 2ft deep, and then there lilypads, and a rope type deal on the deepest side (which is about 3 ft deep). They have a sauna, which we didn't visit, and a hot tub. It was good that there was a hot tub, because when we got cold we'd go sit in the hot tub to warm up. Joshua was not too sure at first, he was shivering and not too thrilled, but by the end of the night he was enjoying every bit of it. Kateli managed to go down the frog slide a few times this afternoon, but wasn't too excited to do it much in the evening. She loved to play with the water toys that Beth brought, especially a cute little watering can and the blue and red cups. She pretended to serve you cofee or tea, whichever you'd like. Anyway, we had fun...pics tomorrow, if I get through them. Good night!
Update on daddy's ski trip: we did talk to him and heard about his fun skiing experience today. His first words to me were "I'm feeling really old"...He is the only one of the four guys that is snowboarding, everyone else is on skis. He said they were out on the slopes from 9 to about 5pm!! YIKES!! They did some really hard courses, and one fun one that he wouldn't tell me much over the phone about--apparently I have to hear from him in person about his run through the "enchanted woods" course. Anyway, he was exhausted but had a lot of fun!
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