yesterday, rex woke up at 5:10am. today, he slept until a whopping 5:50!!! i really hope he gets back on track and starts sleeping just a tad later - it's not fun!!! malloy's doing a bit better with her bedtime - we gave her a book last night and tonight and that seems to curb the excuses to stay up later. so if she's up, she's occupying herself and not yelling down to us that she's awake, needs to go potty, needs a blanket, etc!
we had friends over on friday morning for a playdate. it was so much fun!!! malloy hadn't seen her buddy, lena, in a while and when she saw her out the window she yelled, "mom, look who's here! lena's here!!" she was so excited! they played great together even though they haven't seen each other in a while. it's so nice that she has a few pals who she just clicks with and they genuinely enjoy playing with each other! malloy and rex loved playing with gigi. she's rex's age and is SUCH a sweetie pie!!! and rex had another buddy, ben, to play with. all the kids had a blast!!
friday afternoon, we just hung out at home and played. malloy sat and played with pipe cleaners and a colander for about an hour!!
today, uncle ryan, kari, and bella came over to play and then we all went out to lunch. malloy and bella were so cute at lunch - coloring on the same paper together! bella was a little tired and feeling down - malloy looks over, rubs her back and asks if she was ok!!! she's so cute! and it's nice that she got some empathy budding already!! 
we spent the afternoon playing in malloy's room while neal took the ac out of our room, shut all the storm windows, and took the futon out of rex's room.