monday: malloy was excited to go back to school! she napped well, rex didn't at all! we played with balloons the rest of the afternoon! rex got two balloons from the cashier at tops this morning. she said "well, you're a big boy!" and he said "yeah, i'm a goofer!" love him! 

i went out to dinner with some of my mommy friends. i was going out to the van quick to get my wallet. as i was closing the door, rex yelled "but mommy! i love you!" he thought i was just leaving without saying goodbye. it was really cute! 

today: we had a playdate at our house. only a few friends came. rex made a new friend, bryan. he's 2, as well. they were buddies pretty quickly! they were holding hands jumping on his bed together, playing with his firehouse, playing with trucks. it was great! safina and emery came over once school was over. malloy was so excited and waited all morning for her!
the kids switched for naps - malloy didn't nap today and rex did! she was quiet for 2 hours, though! when she came out, she told me "i won't be cranky". this afternoon, it was a bit warmer out so we decided to take a walk. we were out for about 2 minutes and malloy said "uh-oh. i peed in my underwear!" so i told her we had to go back home. she was beyond angry that we had to go home. she was screaming, yelling, and crying  the entire 2 minutes back to the house. then she was kicking rex and pushing me while yelling. she moved down quite a few pegs on her behavior chart!!! she made it to 5 minutes of time out. once her time was up, she came out calming, came over to me and said, "i'm sorry i yelled at you, mommy." i gave her a big hug and told her it meant a lot to me that she apologized. things were better after that. lesson learned, though! from now on, we will ALWAYS try to go potty before we leave the house. (which we used to do and then got out of the habit of for some reason!)
this morning, rex got a little overexcited about something and hit me in the face. he looked immediately regretful and got wide eyed. i told him that he needed to be careful and that he hurt me. he grabbed my chin where he hit me, made a fist and pretended to eat something. he took the hit off my face and ate it up so it was gone. it was the only thing he could think of to do. it made me laugh!! where do they come up with thus stuff?!

trying out a new hairdo

malloy and safina - photo courtesy of katie!!