If you know our family at all, you know that we eat at basically the same time every day, and both we and our kids go to bed at about the same time every day. I know a lot of people don't do this, but we've become so accustomed to the predictability of eating and sleeping times being basically the same every day, and we (obviously) prefer it. But that doesn't mean we can't be flexible!
Today we went to Frankie's birthday party at a place with four or five different HUGE bounce houses. The party started at 12:30, and I assumed we'd probably eat first (by 1 pm?) which is late for our kids, so I gave them snacks before we went. It was almost their lunch time when I gave them snacks, and after I got Natalie out of her high chair, she kept pointing to the high chair and saying "eeee!" because she didn't get enough to eat. But I wanted her to eat at the party too.
If I'd thought more about it, I would have realized that you don't want kids eating BEFORE jumping around and getting sweaty...it would definitely increase the puke-cleanup-quotient! So lunch was AFTER the jumping around, which by the way was extremely fun for Lukas and Natalie, and Tom and I enjoyed watching them have fun (and jumping with Natalie). Konrad will enjoy that kind of thing next year. The kids did great, but I found myself quite famished by the time we ate, at 2 pm. Tom and I should have had a snack too!
Has Natalie figured out our weekly bath schedule? We hadn't mentioned that tonight was a bath night, but after dinner, Natalie kept saying "bah!" over and over. Now "bah!" is a sound Natalie makes a lot, but this time it seemed like she was really trying to get a point across, instead of just saying the sound to enjoy the echo (which she loves to do in a parking garage). We finally figured out she was saying "bath", because when we said, "do you mean 'bath'?", she smiled and signed "please." I've been trying to get her to sign "bath", but saying it is even better!
We just have to keep listening for what she says!
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