Play Gym Fun

We went to the play gym on Thursday morning, to burn some steam and just get out of the house. These indoor playgrounds are a life saver during the winter. There are a number in and around Edmonton and the boys have such a good time, climbing and running, jumping, sliding, playing with balls, you name it. Bless the people who thought of building these places, (and for Karly: shame on those with no vision to build them in the fair city of Lethbridge!) We hadn't been to this particular play gym since the spring and I was amazed by how much Jack has developed in terms of coordination, strength and sheer pluckiness. He was like a little mountain goat climbing across the monkey bar ladder whereas last spring he couldn't be coaxed near the thing. It was another reminder to me that things change so quickly with children. Ever six months and you are into a new phase or stage. The last time we were there Eric was content to sit in an exersaucer. This time I chased him the whole time to ensure he didn't kill himself trying to do all the things Jack was doing!

We had a pretty productive weekend. We moved our living room around and brought in the big TV stand from the garage. That took about 5 hours and it's still not quite done. The big coffee table and the old TV bench haven't made their way to the basement yet. Darrel and I were simply too pooped to do it last night. The missionaries are coming for dinner Thursday -they are always asking if we have anything for us to do and I'm tempted to leave that for them. Seriously. :)

We left church early today due to teething woes and one child who was up at 5:30 and therefore FINISHED by the end of sacrament meeting. We came home and both boys slept for 3 hours and I slept for 2.5. So heavenly! Naps are a very good thing for children, mommies, whole families really.

I have made some bluberry GF (gluten free) muffins tonight that I think are the best ones I have ever made (before or after our wheat woes). That feels pretty good as GF cooking is tricky to say the least. I think I will even be able to coax Darrel into eating one and then eating another one of these, (the repeat partaking being the true test of yumminess), they are that good.


It's a good thing, because my pumpkin muffins from last week certainly left room for improvement. I made them in a mini muffin pan and talk about little lead bullets! Yeah, when I woke up from my nap Darrel was feeding them to the kids for a snack and I actually felt bad for them , even though they were eating them and all. At any rate, I've redeemed myself, these are yummy.