Plan Plan Plan!

I have never been what's known as a planner, or at least a planner that has their plans pan out if you will. I get bored, forget, or get frustrated in the whole planning process and give up. The last year or so with Isaac and having Carolina in my life has changed that. I've learned something that I'm sure most parents have known for a while: Kids are much easier to deal with when they're busy. I've found that rough weekends are generally the ones where we have nothing going on and are sitting around. We don't have to be going somewhere but to at least have a special movie, game, or cooking project goes a long way to a more enjoyable weekend for all. This past weekend was no exception: Friday started with

Playing new Princess Dominoes


An impromptu game of keep away

Baking yummy chocolate chip cookies (well slicing and baking)


And some kung fu fighting with daddy that ended in a minor boo boo that was easily fixed with some ice and a chocolate chip cookie. I have a feeling that really only the cookie was needed. (I had some cute pics of the kung fu, but they came out too dark.)

Saturday was a trip to my dads to play in the pool which ended up being a day of fear conquering: I learned to dive and Carolina made it down the slide by herself. It was funny Isaac went up on the slide with her the first time and she FREAKED out, screaming and crying but it was too late for them to get off so she had to go down and she cried the whole time. Once in the water she was pouting and yelled she'd never get on the slide again. So we left her alone to pout for a few minutes and within 2 minutes she had quietly gotten out of the pool and was standing at the stairs of the slide, you could see the wheels turning. We didn't say anything at all just watched as she took a deep breath went up the stairs and down the slide! After that she went several more times and had a blast each time. I was very proud of her!


Going down the slide!

Sunday was much begged for ice skating outing for just us girls. Isaac being the awesome boyfriend that he is cleaned out my car while we were gone. The weekend finished up with a little High School Musical and one more batch of cookies. Whew!! Now I just need to come up with something for next weekend!