Letting off some steam

Since school has started the past 2 weeks have been quite intense. Lilys homework has started to pile up again and our evenings are spend doing that having dinner and spending a few minutes reading before they go to bed, after a bath of course.
As this is a 3 day weekend we decided to fill it up with fun, some much needed fun to allow both the kiddies to blow off some steam. Tonight we had planned a swim date and dinner but the weather decided that wasn't going to happen so the kids played here instead. They had a wonderful time and it was so nice to hear the volume level peek to a record high and have kids running willy nilly throughout the house. Dinner for them was nothing more than an inconvenience. Pam and I had a lovely time and enjoyed our dinner as well as all the time we got to spend chatting about her upcoming trip to China to bring home her daughter. We looked at Lily and Rosie's scrapbooks, talked adoption, laughed and listened to the kidlets go beserk.

I think Tw1ster must be one of he oldest games around yet it still entertains the kids today as much as it did me when I was a nipper.

Lily couldn't hold her position any longer and I just happened to snap this as she fell.

I am not sure how it came about but the kids decided they wanted to slide around on the tile floor but Adam didn't have any socks to wear so Lily took him straight upstairs and told him to help himself. We really didn't pay any attention to them as we were in the kitchen either preparing dinner or cleaning up from dinner. A little later on they decided to play some wii and all sat on the couch to do so. Adam is still wearing his "slippy" socks. It takes a real man to be comfortable in purple fluffy socks!

Before we knew it it was 9.30 so we had to call a cease and desist order to the fun. Lily has a very fun weekend planned and somehow we have to find the time to fit in a project that she was assigned today. Of course it wouldn't be a 3 day weekend without an extra dollop of homework in addition to her regular load! I was a little bit pissy when she told me she had a project....god forbid the kids get a break.