Today I dragged my family into action to clean the house....such a chore.....the hard thing about encouraging chris to do some of the chores, is that while he is doing said chore, he is looking around at anything else he can do.....example: put away laundry in bedroom...lead him to staring out our bedroom door at the bookshelf. He then decides to unload all books, re-sort, move the bookcase to the office, etc......don't get me wrong, it looks fantastic now.....and getting the boys to clean their room is like herding kittens. It's a real battle in my mind as I am dictating orders, checking when they say they are done and then re-checking...all i think is 'arg, this would be so easy to do on my own'...and the other side is thinking 'consider their future wives...these boys need to know how to help around the house....'
So after the shenanigans of house cleaning was over, we headed to my 'other' cleaning job at the chiro to bang that off before picking up Ava! Since learning that i was going to have 2 little nieces on this side of the family, I have been excited to take them shopping for their birthday and let them pick their own birthday outfit. Since i don't have daughters of my own, Ellie, Ava and Wren are as close as i am going to get!! So, Ava was the first to fulfill the dream!! We had fun....oh man, these three laughed and had a great time at the mall.
She is so much nicer to shop with than boys (obviously....)....I really hope
I can make this a birthday tradition.....
Dinner at Delicados on the way home.....i put a special cupcake sticker on her
Chicken Nino.....Happy 8th birthday beautiful girl.
