Delirious blessings.

Day 5: Bird

Found on Layla's menu :)

Day 6: Me

I wish there was some way to write this that would do it justice.

Backstory:
I'm tired. No, not tired... exhausted. I'm running on no more than 4 hours of sleep a night and it's starting to catch up to me. I passed "functionally tired", hung out in Zombieland earlier today, and tonight finally reached my final destination: delirium.  I haven't laughed that hard in a long time.
It should be noted that Brynn is the funniest person alive. Also the most frustrating, but DEFINITELY the funniest.

Nathan had drill today, so when he told me he would be leaving the base in an hour, we decided to surprise him and meet him downtown at his favorite place for dinner. It may seem obvious, but incase you don't know... we are a three ring circus.

While waiting for Nathan to get there, Cale decided he did not want to go inside. Since we HAD to go inside, he made his unhappiness very well-known by hiding under the table and beating his seat with chopsticks. Meanwhile, Brynn pulled a *second* pack of fruit snacks from her boot. She had done so at church, as well. I never dreamed there would be another. She also pulled out a business card belonging to someone I don't know, a silly band, and a picture she colored of Jesus while exclaiming, "I tried to make Jesus look like me, but I can't get rid of that mustache!". Layla randomly rolled her shoulders and arms and threw her hands in the air. When I asked why, she said she was trying to see if she could look like that blow up guy she saw at the car lot one day.  And we all cheered wildly when Anna Gray decided it was a good time to show off her new talent: clapping.


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THREE.RING.CIRCUS.



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Our server brought us an appetizer that we didn't order, on the house, and thanked Nathan for his service- his dad was retired from the Air Force. An older gentleman came over to shake Nathan's hand. When he did, he put more than enough money in it to cover our dinner.  We tried to politely decline, but he insisted. When the server returned with our bill, his manager had taken 25% off.

I feel like there was some kind of lesson or message in the timing and I'm missing it. Whatever the reason, it was nice. Really, really nice. And we so enjoyed our time at dinner. I had tears running down my face from laughing so hard!

It never calmed down. It never does! At the end of our meal, we divvied up fortune cookies. Before I even had mine opened, Layla shook her fist in the air and yelled way too loudly, "Curse you, fortune cookie!!!!". I still have no idea why.

As we buckled in the car, Brynn sighed..."Time to shut this party down." She was referring to herself. I laughed and told her I often wondered what was in her head. She responded, "No problem, I'll tell you. God and Footloose. You know, Footloose?" (Singing) Loose! Footloose! Pick up a golden goose!".

Ooooh my. MUCH needed comic relief from my littles tonight.

No sweeter sound!

Day 4: Fun!

It's darker than dark, but we weren't about to pass this up :)

Field trip!

Yesterday was Layla's 2nd grade field trip.
I don't think you are supposed to bring your own animals to the zoo, but...

It took everything I had just to get all of us + stroller + lunch + packed bags there on time, a camera wasn't high on my priority list!  Thank goodness for phones, huh?

Cale couldn't go to school because he might have poison ivy, so I ended up taking all four kids.(Traveling around the world? Across the country with all of them? No problem. That darn zoo, alone, with four kids? Oy.)

Thankfully, this little girl LOVES her stroller!

There were so many parent volunteers, that the kids were split up into groups of 2 or 3. As long as they all re-conviened at lunch and when time to go home, we were on our own. My kids weren't bad, just... excited :) I think there were 4 different schools there, so just too many kids for them to be bouncing around. Once we sort of split from the other kids, they were fine. And at 1 o'clock, when all the schools left, we stayed at a nearly empty zoo and had a grand ole' time :)

Layla was SO excited about the new dino exhibit- which was the #1 reason I wanted to go so I could see her :) She loved it, but she wouldn't read any of the signs, she said she already knew everything.
Cale really enjoyed it too. Brynn... not so much.

And I certainly can't complain about anything that ends like this:  ;)