"having a sleep over jeremy's house" jeremy is rex's imaginary friend  - or rather, an imaginary friend that malloy made up for rex

 the kids have been playing this sleepover game for a week or so now. it involves bringing any and all the toys, blankets, books, they can find and dumping it in malloy's room. they sure can move it when they want to but come time to clean up and it's SO HARD! so today, i told them it was time to clean up. they didn't even try. so i tried again. i told them they had 10 minutes to clean up the room. when the timer went off after 10 minutes, the toys that were not cleaned up were going in a garbage bag that i get to keep. for the entire 10 minutes i encouraged them to clean up, but they still weren't that interested. i brought a garbage bag in at the 10 second countdown and malloy started scurrying as fast as she could to clean. when the timer went off, i put all of the toys in the garbage bag while the kids cried. (i know, i know mean mommy. trust me, i felt awful, but the don't listen too well anymore when it comes to cleaning!!!) at lunch, i told them that they could earn their toys back. each time they got up to awesome on their chart, they could get a toy back. they ate their lunch quietly and without a word. both kids got to get a toy back before naps. they were on their best behavior for the rest of the day and earned quite a few toys back already!

safina and emery came over to play for a few hours after nap. malloy was so excited to play with safina! they were calling each other "best friend forever". so cute! they played a lot of dress up. they were brides, princesses, and ballerinas.

 rex wanted to dress up, too! i gave him a superhero costume that grandma val gave me after halloween. he LOVES it! he calls himself "hulk batman" because it's green but there's a black cape with it. he wore the costume, including the mask, for the entire evening!!!

watching a movie and having a snack