Play date with a new friend/ sick day

Yesterday we had a playdate with a new family that we met at our church. We went over to their house. They have a four year old girl and nine month old boy. I really enjoyed visiting with Christel and getting to know her more our girls on the other hand. Kelley was really excited to go but right off the bat started crying when we got there. Kelley is very shy and takes her a long time to warm up to some people. She usually does not have any trouble with other kids so this was a new experience to see her so upset and nervous. Towards the end of the playdate she seemed to warm up some and started playing. Here was the problem tinley seems to be very talkative and outgoing so she really wanted Kelley to play with her and she would try to make her do things. This is totally normal behavior for most kids and she is four so two years older than Kelley. Kelley though does not do well with that personality but  I have great faith that next play date will go better. She did get shut in the closet with the lights off so that didn't exactly help things. They were playing hide n seek so I do not think it was meant to be mean on the little girls part. She did get a time out but while she was in timeout After Kelley finished crying she went to find her to play again so I don't think she was to turned off by it. Later of course Kelley got in trouble for pushing. No child is perfect and as parents we never know what our crazy kids will do. First play dates I feel can also be awkward both people trying to be as normal as possible not to scare the other people away and try our best to keep our kids looking like angels who never disobey this of course is not the way it goes our. Children will do the craziest things when you least expect it. After we got home we ate lunch and Kelley took a nap. She was exhausted and having all sorts of crazy melt downs like completely becoming hysterical because she spilled water on her in her car seat, my fault the lid wasn't on all the way. I was hoping for a long nap but she did her typical just a little more than an hour. She seemed better the rest of the day. We got a few lesson things accomplished. All in all was a pretty good day if I remember correctly. I forget so much if I don't blog that night. Her grandparents stopped by in the evening and pawpaw took Kelley outside to ride her four wheeler toy car thing. She seemed to be acting all shy and weird around them also which is unlike her. I figured it was to much for her this week being at my parents for so long with so many people to see and then church Sunday followed by two play date in a row. Well when she woke up with runny nose this morning it made since that she had not been acting quite like herself the past few days. Kelley and I did get a quick dance party in together I love dancing with her and she loved dancing all day. We have a CD player in the living room where she can reach it and whenever she wants she can turn it on and dance. Luke and I also enjoyed a dance party before he went to bed. It reminded me of when Kelley was a baby and I would hold her and dance with her. Made me want to hold him even closer because they grow up so fast! 

 Today overall I can't say it was horrible but  we had horrible moments. Kelley not feeling good today made me also in grumpy short tempered mood. My husband pointed out I was being snappy so I escaped to our room by myself for a couple of min to give myself a timeout until they all found me and jumped in bed with me lol. Kelley got several time outs today and I lost my cool several times raising my voice. She got timeouts for not cleaning up and one for touching the fan and leaving her hand on it which I freaked out because I was worried she would get her fingers caught in. We were able to do some lessons but she just couldn't focus today which made me even more frustrated and then guilty because I can see she has a runny nose and doesn't feel good. Luke had a good day but cried all through getting dinner ready and Kelley ready for bed. He was gassy and just wanted to sleep with me holding him but I kept having to put him down to do things. After Kelley went to bed I held him until I gave him a bath and got him in pjs and gave him one long nursing session before bed. So far he is staying asleep. Between the past two days I have gotten laundry washed and dried and now sitting on my couch and I got my dishes done. Today my husband vacuumed up dog hair around the House so that was nice. Besides that no other house work has been done. I'm exhausted from Kelley not feeling good and Luke being gassy. Praying everyone sleeps good and wakes up in much better moods. As much as I love my babies sometimes Mommy just needs a day off. 

She loves peanut butter crackers

Gluing and glitter for our shape of the day

Tummy time together looking in the mirror

We have done this activity several times she gets better each time. We started this when she very young and she loves it. Pipe cleaners through a strainer. Perfect fine motor activity.

Big smiles after releasing gas :)

Letter G color page, went outside and picked up grass and glued to letter G

Number six color page and gluing six buttons on number. She wasn't very interested in coloring today or yesterday . 

Color of the day was green. The plan was to find all the green Legos but she wasn't interested in that after finding a few so I told her we could play a game. She loves the idea of a game. So I set out the different colors and had her match the little ones to the big ones. She liked this much better. 

Homemade marinara sauce from my inlaws made from their yummy tomatoes out of their garden . We loved it for dinner tonight! 

Luke trying out the bumbo seat for first time. He liked it. He seems to be interacting more when we show him toys and play with him and he coos and make baby noises more. Zach even said when I walked by while he was in the floor he tracked me with his eyes. This is progress! His eyes do seems to be darting more like kelleys so that is sad but we will wait to confirm anything until he sees the eye doctor again.