More then a change in the weather

Yesterday was a beautiful day. My Mom came down to spend the day with us because she needed to use up some vacation hours and the weather was fine and we had no big plans. Turned out to be the ingredients for an awesome day. We took the kids to the park for a couple of hours where we played and picnicked. Ethan attempted to pick every daisy and dandelion he saw (will most likely be an ongoing summer project as there are far too many flowers for him to get to in one outing) and Grace had a blast climbing on top of the cement tube and playing in her aforementioned favorite tree. Mom packed a yummy picnic lunch that we enjoyed on a blanket in the breeze. She brought doughnut holes as a dessert which turned out to be more then a hit in Ethan's eyes. Think about it. Doughnut holes are round like balls and sugary. Yes the perfect food for a ball obsessed toddler with a sweet tooth. I think he ate six.

This morning the sun was still there but the temperature had cooled quite a bit. Despite the 20 degree drop in temperature today we all melted down this morning trying to get to Indoor Park by 9:30 to open. I probably waited too long to get the kids dressed, and Grace was in no mood to get dressed in a hurry. I gave her a choice between two outfits and then had to force the outfit she chose on her because all she wanted to wear was a pink dress. None were clean so the butterfly outfit was going to have to work. While I got Ethan dressed in his clothes (no protests from him as to choice of clothes!) I argued with Grace about what shoes to wear. I gave her a choice between her pink Crocs and white Saltwaters and she chose the pink ones. Then she decided the pink ones were too dirty and wouldn't put them on so I forced the white ones on and buckled her in the car so she couldn't take her clothes/shoes off. In the meantime Ethan had been playing on her bed and somehow took a tumble wrapped in her duvet cover and hit his eye on the footboard of the bed. Instant owie. By this point we needed to be at Indoor Park within 4 minutes so I grabbed an icepack and towel to deal with Ethan's eye once we got there.

Grace screamed the whole way to Indoor Park wanting her pink shoes that 10 minutes earlier she had refused to put on. After a three minute time out she was ready to play and was done crying. In fact by the time we left an hour and a half later she even put her white sandals on without a single complaint. Ethan screamed while I held the icepack to his eye for a few minutes when we first got there but I wanted to try and keep the swelling down a little. It still looks pretty bad but he won't let me really do much to help it.

I think I'm ready for another warm sunny perfect day. Cooler days with lots of screaming really burns a Mommy out.