A Seasoned Mom...

This last weekend while my husband and three older kids went snowboarding with our dear friends, the Hales'.  I stayed behind with the "wee ones."  I am a seasoned mom so I can handle staying home with just the babies.  Or can I?

Knowing that I was going to have a moment with my five year old daughter, Georgia, all to ourselves I was prepared with some treats.  Some mini ice cream sandwiches from Trader Joe's and a variety of cocoa by Starbucks.

We put the babies to bed. We got comfy in our PJ's and slippers and watched her pick... Despicable Me.  A very funny and cute flick.  Didn't mind at all to watch it especially because it was with her.

There's nobody like Georgia.  She's stands out in our family for sure.  She's really outgoing and really outspoken.  Here are some recent remarks from the Bearny B. herself:  (Just to note, this conversation wasn't during this weekend).

Preface:  After we bless the food, one of the kids accidentally forgot to specifically ask for a blessing upon the food.  So, Gwyneth pipes up, "you need to remember to bless the food!"

Georgia: "It's okay Gwyneth, Jesus makes up for that!"

Gwyneth:  "Mom how does she know these things?"

Me: "Uh, well, she, hmmm.....Georgia, where did you learn that-because you're absolutely right."

Georgia: "Mom, I just do know these things."

Me (As I'm winking at all the other kids): "Yes, Georgia, I don't know why I doubt you."

I love these moments because Georgia helps our family to bond with her cleverness and sweet remarks.

There's the Bearny B. herself.  At the end of the movie she grabbed her pillow and into bed she crawled with her adoring mother.  She is the best snuggler, kisser, and hugger.  She calls kisses smooches.  And to give those, she gets a death grip around my head and kisses me really hard anywhere on my face.  She's precious.  Just precious.

When we woke up, she got her brother Shane up, and they played.

They almost always start the day off with the "big" legos.  They can do this for hours.  I did a little laundry and spoke with my mom for about an hour on the phone.

Lunch came quickly.  This is what I had.  I saw whole wheat pita pockets at Trader Joe's and thought they sounded good to eat.  But, I basically put a salad into it, so the pitas were almost useless-oh well.  They were good.

I was going to say, "never mind what the kids had for lunch it's not very interesting."  But after thinking about it, it may be more interesting than mine.

My kids love eggs.  This food is definitely not subject to breakfast alone at our house.  They love fried eggs, scrambled eggs, omelets, you name it.  So they asked for fried eggs.  I served it with Bosc Pears and Avocado.  I know-funny.

Georgia requested we go to Yogurt Land.  I told her that sounded great and we'd go as soon as she swept the backyard.  So sweep she did.

Here in lies the moments when I questioned whether I was actually a seasoned mom or not.  First of all I thought it would be fun to take these two babies and a five year old to Yogurt Land.  After all, I take my big kids there all the time with no problem.  I'm a little out of practice.

Here, she (Summer)  talked me into letting her have the tub of yogurt and she doesn't even know how to talk.  And she doesn't really know how to feed herself.  But, I let her go at it.

This is cute.  About five minutes after this it wasn't so cute, because she was stickified and somehow talked me into letting her out of her stroller and she still didn't know how to talk!  So now she's sticky and crawling around on the ground?  I know, she totally takes advantage of me with her cuteness and those big huge eyes.  It's crazy, I'm telling you.

Sweet Shane.  He sat and ate his ice cream and minded his manners.  Meanwhile the five year old Georgia, who I've been telling you I love so much, she's one of a kind....well apparently she's not the best listener. I think her lack of listening gets masked by her older siblings being around.  I must not notice it as much...that's got to be it?  She finished her ice cream and is now picking flowers on the patch of grass by Yogurt Land right next to a crazy, busy street.

I call to her.  No response.  And she goes further.  I call to her again.  No response and yet again, further away to pick those flowers.  It happens again.  By this time I've got Summer in a football hold with my nice camera in the other hand traipsing across the lawn to give Georgia an earful.

All the while, this woman is staring the whole time in dismay I'm sure about the naughty Georgia(who I now have by my side), the football hold I've got my baby in and the nice camera I'm prioritizing in the other hand.  Inside I was cracking up laughing.  And then and there I knew I was a seasoned mom.  The whole seen was hilarious.

I wanted to say to her "this is nothing, I've got three more of these from the same exact place these one's are from"!!!!!!!!  In a funny, light hearted, humorous way of course.

After the stress and humor of Yogurt Land I knew it was time for the park.  We went to Jake's Lot in Almaden.  It's one of our favorite parks.

This is why I keep having more children for Pete's Sake.  They're just so great.  So fun, so precious.  So mesmorizing.  So full of creativity, joy and love.

We stayed at the park for almost two hours and I took pictures at first.  But then, I just sat and watched and watched and watched.  I don't want to take my eyes off of them, ever.  Not because I'm worried about them, but because I don't want to miss a second of their lives with me, while I have them.  I loved having just the three of them with me for the weekend.  It was a whole different dynamic, one that I'm not so use to anymore with big kids around all the time.  

But, alas I am a seasoned mom.  I have a much better sense of humor about kids and their "naughtiness" and I can enjoy these moments so much more than I ever use to.  I loved every second of it.  Even the infamous moments at Yogurt Land