On the 5th, we drove back to Sioux Falls. My parents, the kids and I made the trip over nap time again, but late nap time. Before we headed out of town, we stopped at Auntie Lois' house to see it. Mom and Gini liked looking through the house and through some family photo albums. It seems I may have another scanning project on my hands someday. :) It was fun to see Maggie and Justin, Kari and Matt again too. I didn't get to see them much, which I chalk up to having the kids with me.
The kids fell asleep immediately in the car and slept the whole way again, I even nodded off for a while which was nice but uncomfortable. Ha. The rest of the day was pretty uneventful, as these past few days have been. I seem to be exhausted and really really really ready to go home. My patience has run thin, and I basically have none left. When we said bye to Grandma and Papa today (we dropped them off at the airport for their flight to Utah) and I used all my energy not to cry in the car on the way back to the hotel. James was chanting, "Grandma! Grandma!" and I was just about bawling. Pure exhaustion, I think.
The best part about being in Sioux Falls again is the pool at this hotel. We're staying at the Clubhouse hotel on Loise. It has a pool, but it's only 3 feet deep in the deepest part. Why is it so great then? SLIDES! There is one huge slide for kids that are at least 48" tall (damn them!), and then a little froggy slide for the little ones (they climb up and into the back of the frog's mouth, and then slide down the tongue- very cute). The kids absolutely LOVED it! The slide has water pumped up to the top of it to keep it wet so they slide down incredibly fast. Kaitlyn loves the pool also because she could walk from the slide to the shallowest end and get out all by herself. The downfall is that the floor in the pool area is extremely slippery (something Jack Miller apparently found out the hard way, twice). I had to lay towels down on the floor just for my kids to be able to make it from the pool's edge to the slide's ladder. Seems like they need some mats on the floor! James and Kaitlyn had so much fun in the pool- it's definitely one of the better memories of this trip.
James has found the Light Saber on my phone. It's a stupid app that I downloaded secretly one day to play fight with Nathan with our phones. James thinks it's a game, which it's not, but since he can change the light saber color by moving the sliders, it's all a game to him. When you swing the phone back and forth it makes the light saber noises, and is all accompanied by Star Wars music. I can see why a 4 year old would like this app, but really? A total obsession? Yes, apparently it is for James. He asks to use my phone about 20 times a day. I tell him no most of the time, telling him that I need my phone to make calls, receive calls, etc. but that doesn't seem to sink in to his brain. I'm contemplating getting him a Nintendo DS, or some type of gaming system that has educational games on it for him to play. We'll see. For now though, maybe the light saber app may mysteriously disappear. Ha. One thing that it has also brought out in James is ATTITUDE. An attitude that I despise... bossiness. He told me today, "Mom, you call Dad and then you give that phone RIGHT back to me!"
"EXCUSE ME??? You don't talk to me like that James."
So this brings me to mentioning that Kaitlyn is mimicking me more and more. After this incident with telling James how NOT to talk to Mommy, she started in on him too. She gets this low raspy voice that is apparently her "mommy" voice. "MY turn!" she'll grumble. Or something like, "Do NOT do that!" It's funny, but it also really irritates me. Another thing that irritates me? ME! I let it slip today that something (or someone) was driving me crazy, and James says (while watching Cars on my computer and constantly being interrupted by Kaitlyn's big head in the way), "She's driving me crazy!" Ugh. Sigh. I guess one can never be the perfect parent... and with that, I end this blog... hopefully to wake tomorrow with a better attitude and a replenishment on my patience level. Man I wish I had some BEER. Ha.
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