Whirlwind of a Day

What a day, what a day.  I'm pretty sure we loaded and unloaded the car about 6 times today which is a LOT.  My grandmother says that I stay in shape just by getting everybody in and out of the car and today I completely agreed with her!!  After a crazy week of being here and there and everywhere, we sort of got back to normal today.  Rachel is at the point in her handwriting book that she's reviewing her numbers, so we started with "1" today and she and Ford thought it was so funny to talk about how hard it was to write a number 1 and then laugh and laugh!!  Ford even said, "Can I do a 2 now?"  Like I wasn't even challenging him :)  Oh, just wait, that 2 will come tomorrow!!!  Then Rachel started her +1 addition facts.  Again, she caught on super quickly and we made jokes all day about "How much is 325 plus 1?" or things like that.  She was really funny!  Then we read a TON of library books because they knew we needed to return them to the library today.  After reading, we all needed to get up and move around for awhile, so we started bringing more toys into the play room and getting them out of the living room.  It's starting to look awfully crowded in the playroom, but hopefully that will help us only have one major space to worry about cleaning up toys if someone wants to come look at the house (please, somebody, come look at the house!).  Before we knew it, we were running behind and had to get going to make it to story time today.  We went today since we missed Tuesday.  Mr. Jason was there with some St. Patrick's Day antics and the kids laughed and laughed when he didn't know his colors or when he pinched himself!  After story time, we came home for lunch, then the library called and said they had the book Rachel had requested, so we went back to the library and got her book, ran by and got some gas, went and got a few groceries and then came back home. We ended up reading most of the book (it's a chapter  book!) and then loading up in the car AGAIN for violin.  After violin we came home and planted some flowers in the pots in the front of the house and decided it was just too cold and windy to be outside any longer, so we came in and FINISHED that chapter book!!  Now we have to go to the library and get the next book in the series...my goodness, the rainbow fairies need to all be found and returned to Fairy Land!!!  Allen came home and he read them more books (don't worry, they were all able to check off "reading" on their charts today!) and then we had dinner and pie (since today is Pi Day 3.14) and then played some more before bed time.  Phew...now it's time to rest!