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Feb. 16th, 2026 08:18 amWhat a busy weekend, and we're not even done.
Saturday I made pink pancakes for the kiddos, then took CG and 5yo to piano lessons. Afterwards, we hit up the library for an hour, since Dr Lady had a 3 hour taekwondo event. I found a few more kids' cook books and am going to try again to get CG involved in the weekly cooking. I swear at this point I'm beating a dead horse, but hey, maybe the horse will suddenly start kicking. I feel like if I can just find the right thing, she'll get interested. She likes making eggs, after all.
After we got home from the library, they helped me clean out the garage. Once Dr Lady came home, I let everyone vege for a few hours, because that evening we were going to pick up some Indian food and go watch the bats. Half of that turned out all right--surprisingly the food pick up. We had a 30min wait for our food, so the kids sprinted back and forth outside, and then I corralled them in the back of the car where they happily worked through 5yo's activity book. He's gotten really into those find-the-object activities, as well as simple mazes, so Dr Lady got him a whole stack of those kinds of books for his birthday.
The food took longer than I'd budgeted for, timewise, so by the time we got to bats, the nearby parking was full up and people were everywhere. We had to walk a ways and then we were on the wrong side of the road to really watch, but it was getting too dark and there were too many cars to cross the road safely. We got to see somebats come out of the bat houses, but not the endless stream I was hoping for.
And then it was very dark and 5yo was tired and wild and running all over the place--near the gator-infested lake and then near the car-infested road. Not great! Then he just laughed at us when we told him to stop and come back, so I had to take away his stuffie for the evening. It was a struggle with him the rest of the night, but at least Sunday we were fine again.
Both kids were up when it was time to go get groceries, so I put 5yo on my bike and CG biked on her own. She's doing such a good job with biking further and further and learning how to share the road with cars. She had no problem at all biking all the way to the grocery store and back again.
We only had a little time at home after, because the university put on a little science fair at Depot Park that only ran for a few hours. So we hustled over there and the kids got to touch a whale's baleen, learn about frog calls, and pet caterpillars. It was fun, if a bit windy, because the cold front was coming in. We closed out the fair and then played on the playground for a bit and I reminisced on how we used to come to this park every weekend. The friends we'd meet up with there have all unfortunately moved on or ghosted us, but I really want to go there more often again. It's such a nice park with a big playground and lots of safe space for the kids to run around in.
We were all exhausted by the time we got home, so we let the kids vege again.
And today, as soon as these kiddos wake up, we're going to see manatees. :)
Saturday I made pink pancakes for the kiddos, then took CG and 5yo to piano lessons. Afterwards, we hit up the library for an hour, since Dr Lady had a 3 hour taekwondo event. I found a few more kids' cook books and am going to try again to get CG involved in the weekly cooking. I swear at this point I'm beating a dead horse, but hey, maybe the horse will suddenly start kicking. I feel like if I can just find the right thing, she'll get interested. She likes making eggs, after all.
After we got home from the library, they helped me clean out the garage. Once Dr Lady came home, I let everyone vege for a few hours, because that evening we were going to pick up some Indian food and go watch the bats. Half of that turned out all right--surprisingly the food pick up. We had a 30min wait for our food, so the kids sprinted back and forth outside, and then I corralled them in the back of the car where they happily worked through 5yo's activity book. He's gotten really into those find-the-object activities, as well as simple mazes, so Dr Lady got him a whole stack of those kinds of books for his birthday.
The food took longer than I'd budgeted for, timewise, so by the time we got to bats, the nearby parking was full up and people were everywhere. We had to walk a ways and then we were on the wrong side of the road to really watch, but it was getting too dark and there were too many cars to cross the road safely. We got to see somebats come out of the bat houses, but not the endless stream I was hoping for.
And then it was very dark and 5yo was tired and wild and running all over the place--near the gator-infested lake and then near the car-infested road. Not great! Then he just laughed at us when we told him to stop and come back, so I had to take away his stuffie for the evening. It was a struggle with him the rest of the night, but at least Sunday we were fine again.
Both kids were up when it was time to go get groceries, so I put 5yo on my bike and CG biked on her own. She's doing such a good job with biking further and further and learning how to share the road with cars. She had no problem at all biking all the way to the grocery store and back again.
We only had a little time at home after, because the university put on a little science fair at Depot Park that only ran for a few hours. So we hustled over there and the kids got to touch a whale's baleen, learn about frog calls, and pet caterpillars. It was fun, if a bit windy, because the cold front was coming in. We closed out the fair and then played on the playground for a bit and I reminisced on how we used to come to this park every weekend. The friends we'd meet up with there have all unfortunately moved on or ghosted us, but I really want to go there more often again. It's such a nice park with a big playground and lots of safe space for the kids to run around in.
We were all exhausted by the time we got home, so we let the kids vege again.
And today, as soon as these kiddos wake up, we're going to see manatees. :)
