The adventures of Mimi, Reese & Ryan

Here's a recap from Mimi's adventure while watching Reese & Ryan today. I'm so glad I can just cut and paste her words right in. I'm also glad I got the morning off (after reading about their exhausting adventures :)

We had such a fun day today with my little busy beavers running around non-stop.

First we played with Aunt Carol and showed her how we were trying to go potty. Reese kept running back and forth between their bathroom and the beach bathroom. Then, she got an M & M for trying – never did go in the toilet, but we had a couple of wet panties. Ryan is always very helpful with the toilet paper, trying to unroll the whole thing.

Somehow they were both butt naked by the time Carol was leaving. We went out the front door to wave good-bye to her while they were saying ‘I love you’ and ‘I miss you, Auntie CeCe’. About the time she drove off, they decided it would be fun to run down the cul-de-sac. I rounded them up to come home and Reesie fell and skinned her knee while running; she cried very briefly and I carried her home. We got the Dora bandaids and cleaned up her knee in the bathroom. Ryan had to have a bandaid on her knee, too, of course. So many times Reese wanted me to hold her and she hugged me so tightly, wrapping her arms and legs around me like a monkey.

After that, we got dressed and played in the back yard. At one point, we were all three up on the platform of the swing set, laying on our backs and looking at the sky and the tree; I love the way the tree shades the set. We watched for airplanes and we could hear the train when we were really quiet. When they heard the train, they decided to start yelling at it at the top of their lungs.

In the family room later we played horsie and I lifted them high up on my feet instead of my knees. They loved that and would spread their arms like an airplane. After that, they disappeared for just a minute or two and it got very quiet. I found them in your bathroom with all of your nail stuff dumped on the floor. While I was picking it all up, Reese grabbed three bottles of polish and ran into the closet to squirrel them away in the corner (where your socks are, Lisa, in case you noticed things had been moved).

Somewhere in between all of this, they went at the Christmas tree and were pulling ornaments off. If it seems like there are more ornaments higher up, it’s because every time I’d replace one, it went on a much higher branch out of reach of little hands.

After they had lunch of spaghetti (Reese asked for omie), bananas, and peanut butter, I cleaned them up and put them on the sofa to sit still and watch DORA!! That’s when I called you, Lisa, and said I was officially exhausted. As you notice, though, even when you get home, I’m never in a hurry to run out the door.

They say so many things and parrot whatever I say. When we were by the tree, I was trying to find a hook for one of the ornaments. I thought I found it and then said to myself, “Maybe not.” Ryan repeated ‘maybe not’ as plain as day.

I could go on and on. Even if it’s tiring, I never get enough of them.

Thanks for EVERYTHING!!

Love you guys…..

Mimi