Quiet Place

Abi and I did a short hike tonight. I showed her my secret spot. 

I had mentioned going on a walk around the block, and Abi wanted to join me for that, but then I got excited about having an interested companion and said we should do a short hike instead, and then she didn't want to go. I pressured her a little bit, and she said she would have felt guilty if she didn't come. It was short, and she did like it, but we agreed that next time time I'll give her atleast 24 hour notice. She doesn't like things being sprung on her when she's got different plans in her head of how her evening is going to go. I really like it though. It's just a quick walk there and it's a good quiet spot, and now Abi knows where to go if she needs to get away and be alone for a few minutes.

 When we got back to the main trail, all of a sudden there were lots of groups of people going up or on their way back down. I joked to her under my breath "Ugh, people!" 

Back at home, we just finished scriptures after tracking everyone down. Corey couldn't find Daniel and Peter. I said they were prob in our closet, and they were. That was where I had left them making the sleeping beauty dragon. They think it's pretty cool, and now Peter has a good "boy" thing to play with when he plays with Katharine. He is always excited to play with her after he gets home from school. He made his own version of Elsa's snow monster to go with our castle. He is very creative and a promising future lego master. 

Wednesday evening when kids were going to bed, I went and got K from playing legos and sheepishly apologized to Sophi and Natalie for the state of their room. I thought of saying I'd fix it before they got home from school today, but I wasn't sure what expectations they would have if I said that (like if they want the legos gone from their room...) so then I told them that the room would look "better". I knew I could do that. I spent a bit of time organizing the legos, and then I moved in some small white bookshelves that had been in the laundry room. Now the bins are on the shelf instead of stacked on top of each other on the floor. I got it all picked up enough that I was able to vacuum their room. Sophi was pleased when she saw it, and didn't even seem to mind that legos were still in her room and that for the time being this is still going to be Katharine's play area. I had three bins of legos that needed to be sorted last night, and today I finished all of them. Sophi and Natalie both ended up joining Katharine in playing later. Maybe I might slowly bring up one bin from the basement at a time and see if we can get things sorted more. Just if I need to find more pieces from the basement to make the castles and stuff. I'm hoping Peter and I can do Ariel's castle this weekend.

(Aurora's castle has been destroyed and gone the way of all the earth legos, sniff.)