A looooooooooong, but accomplished day

Today started off quite early...we woke up around 6:00 a.m. and got the children up too and were off to the park.  Park hours are 5:30 - 9:00 a.m. and 4:30 - 8:00 p.m.  This is really the best time for us to come, it's much cooler at this time of day and there's far less of a crowd.  The kids had the playground all to themselves and loved it!  After they played a bit, we took a couple laps around the park...S loved the feel of the dew wet grass under his feet and so did B and J.

We got home by 8:00 a.m., just in time for breakfast and dad to get to the office.  I thought i could keep the kids up to 11:00 a.m. and then put them down for their naps.  But J didn't go to bed the previous night (morning) till after 2:00 a.m. and B after midnight, so they had less than 6 hours of sleep.  That and the running around the park...they didn't make it past 9:15 a.m.

The plan was that we'd tire them out so they'd sleep really long and then mom and I could go out shopping.  But they went down so early, we didn't get a chance to get our act together before they woke up.  And since Murphy has never been wrong...they starting waking up just as we were walking out the door.  We did manage to escape, but heard later that J woke up shortly after we left, but B went back to bed and woke up just before we came back.  We were only gone 3 hours: 2 hours for the commute and 1 for shopping.  Not the best deal!  Anyway, shopping rocked...1 hour is NOT enough, we'll have to go back again.  It's hard to believe that we have a little over two weeks left...time has raced by!  How did that happen?!

We were invited to dinner by some friends who've known my dad for about 40 years, now those are old friends.  The meal was excellent, as expected, and the mozzies had a pretty decent dinner as well.  Their compound is beautiful with foliage, but it also lends itself to loads of mozzies.  They did not spare an inch of open flesh...poor kids and us.  When we got home we did our usual mozzie killing exercise...it took a couple hours, but we killed almost 30 mosquitoes!  All were asleep, but S and I and, man! i am thankful that we got so many...here's to a good night's sleep...