While Dad was Away...

For Carlos' birthday I gave him a vacation away from us!  We sent him to San Francisco for a week to hang out with his sister and eat good food and drink good wine.  While he was away the kids were actually pretty well behaved and we planned lots of fun activities.  His absence also reinforced why I like the Hill and the school community a lot - everyone wanted to help out in some way...usually by holding the baby :).

The boys have been begging to go to a baseball game so we went with Cici's family on Sunday.  Shockingly they actually made it through all 9 innings!  And Sofie slept through all 9 innings!  And even more crazy is that I actually enjoyed it!  I should admit that the boys got to eat cotton candy which probably kept them happy for a few of those innings.  Luckily the Nationals won.  

The weather was so beautiful over the weekend that we spent the whole day outside trying to get them exhausted for bedtime.  After t-ball on Saturday we were wandering around and ran into Charlie's friend from school who invited us to see their renovation project.  As I went upstairs to compare construction notes with her the boys hung out in the basement apartment with Charlie's friend.  When I came back down they were no where to be found.  I did finally hear some squeaking noises and found them eating sugar packets under the parents' bed. pretty funny sight. The rest of the day Diego asked when we could go back to Ry's house to eat sugar.  uh - how about NEVER?!

they did get a treat for being so good - charlie chose ice cream and diego  picked out a carrot ginger cleansing juice!

that is supposed to be a spiderman climbing balloon

We drove up to Philly for Monday where they got to play kickball, soccer and basketball (sometimes all mixed together) in my mom's backyard.  The boys can't get enough of kickball these days.  The rules are basically that you ask them how they want the ball thrown (slow and bumpy or fast on the ground), they kick it and they always get a home run.  Whenever we go to Brent and start playing kickball kids come out of the woodwork and inevitably it becomes too big and competitive so we drop out.

Sofie is so great. I totally adore her - she is sweet and doesn't seem to mind her brothers' over zealous hugs and kisses.  Well...except when she is taking a bath and Diego turns the cold water on.  She was relaxing in the sink (where i have her take baths now) and I was singing to her when Diego reached up and turn on the freezing cold water!  poor girl - she screamed bloody murder.  Her sleep is getting slightly better - she has been sleeping from 8:30pm - 2am which is pretty good.  After that it gets sketchy until the boys get up around 7am....