Just another Lazy Saturday

Yesterday was a very lazy day for us. Taylor took the van so we didn’t have a whole lot of options on places to go. Brooke had stayed the night and as usual had us up at the crack of dawn. I was pretty disappointed to be waking up early on my only day to sleep in, but I got over it quickly and made them all German pancakes.
Brooke had a soccer game and her Mom agreed to let Ali tag along. I was glad that she got to get out of the house for a while. Megan spent a few hours doing art projects and had smiling as she showed me each one exclaiming, “I am such a good artist!”, “ Mom, Why am I so good at art?” “I’m the best painter huh mom?”. She had the table completely covered in colorful artwork, and dripping paint. When Taylor got home around 8 she sat him down and showed him each one, explaining in great length what each one of them was. As I watched from my favorite chair I heard her tell him “I don’t know why I’m such a good artist, I just am!” he looked over at me and we smiled agreeing silently that she is the cutest 6 year old in the entire world!
I spent the day in my pajamas, and so did Mattie. With nowhere to go, there was no point in getting dressed. I cleaned the house, and got to read a good portion of my book while sitting out back. Mattie spent most of the day completely covering himself with dirt. I had to give him two different baths to get him clean enough to put in bed by the end of the night. I didn’t mind though, I had fun watching him dig up ant holes, and make gourmet dirt entrees in the play kitchen outside. He has such a good time in the backyard running around .
Craig and Merry stopped by and brought us a water snail and a sucker fish for our fish tank... cool huh? Taylor got home and said... "um, snails can crawl out of the tank....we should really have a lid on that" so for the rest of the night I was totally grossed out thinking that the snail was going to be lying all slimy on the bookshelf drying out and smelling up the place.. EWWW.. Megan thought it was brilliant and kept asking if she could go check to see if it had gotten out yet. I had to warn her each time that her hands DO NOT go IN the tank.
We ended the day by forcing Taylor to sit on the couch and watch Camp rock with us.

dog update.....
Zoe is fitting in quite well in our family. She’s only had two accidents in the house, and she’s learned her lesson from stealing too much birthday cake instead of eating her dog food like a good puppy. She spent Saturday morning throwing up her mistake. Weston has a gut of steal and will ingest just about anything but we’re hoping that she’s got better taste than he does. She’s really such a sweet thing. Poor Weston is getting the shaft man! Even Taylor is carrying her around like a princess! She and Weston seem to be agreeing on who’s boss, and I saw quite a lot of tail wagging as they fought yesterday.. Sibling rivalry already!