Today Amy went on a bus trip to Eau Claire leaving me to watch the girls for the day. I must say that the girls gave me a challenge. I had no idea how adept Kylie is at scaling the counter top to raid her Halloween candy stash. The girls did have some fights over toys today, but they also had a blast playing with each other. They really like chasing each around the legs of our new kitchen table. It is a unique table because it has chairs that form a bench around half of the table with free standing chairs around the other half. It is also counter top height so Kylie can stand underneath it. Vanessa loves going under there too, but often starts screaming when she gets stuck underneath one of the chairs. They were using it as a fort for a good part of the day and it was fun to watch them play. What is not so fun is watching Kylie's other favorite game with the table. If you let her get bored at all at the dinner table she will take her fork and start scratching the finish on the table as hard as she can. This tends to get daddy's attention pretty quick, but after several instances of this I had enough. I demanded that we get a tablecloth to protect our table and we found one that Amy was going to use on the floor underneath the kid's art easel. Amy hates the way its chicken pattern looks on the table, but until we get something better its not going to budge!
Nap time was kind of rough today. Vanessa took a nap but Kylie would have none of it. She screamed bloody murder when I put her in her room and in the end, I collapsed in exhaustion on her bedroom floor long before she did. I guess I am going to have to work on my ability to put Kylie down for a nap. Fortunately for me bedtime went a lot better. She was pretty tired by then and I think we have a good bedtime routine which helps.
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