With Eric and I both working it seems like by the time we take a week or two off when each of the girls are sick, add in birthdays, and being sick ourselves, we don't have all that many days to take off just to enjoy our family.
Sarah needed Thursday and Friday off this week, and since mom took the girls yesterday, I got the luxury of having them today.
They slept in, which they don't always get to do--and Eric went into work super early.
Next, we got dressed and headed to Galaxy, an indoor play place we hadn't visited for a while. When the pizzas started flowing for other customers, the girls got hungry and I caved. We upgraded to the lunch pizza package and earned ourselves some tokens in the mix.
After an hour and a half of playing, we took a break for lunch, then quickly moved onto the games. It's always amazing to me from each time to the next how much the girls have grown and developed and are able to master things they couldn't just a few months before.
It was getting close to nap time, so we picked out our prizes (bracelets, pixie sticks, etc.) from our ticket loot and loaded up into the car.
On the quick ride home, I could already see Cora getting sleepy, so she wanted to go right to her room and Amara is drawing and listening to the radio having quiet time. I get what everyone says about cherishing time with kids--and I am (but I still wish they'd slow down already)
Eric and I went to a rain barrel workshop in town and got started on our latest project. We planted berries on the side of the house and this gave the girls a chance to be able to water themselves with rain water. 
After the quick seminar, we brought the rain barrel home, and that weekend, in just a few minutes, Eric had it all set up! It looks amazing and works perfectly--the girls are even more excited about watering than before, lol.
After just a few weeks of stretching, learning how to fall, how to get up, and how to stop--Amara is becoming quite the confident skater! At their last class; however, it was all about fun, and not so much about skills. 
The class did their usual games, obstacle courses, etc. but about half way through, they called the kids over and gave each one of them a can of silly string. The kids got to "string" all the instructors till their cans ran out, then each of them were presented with their graduation certificates.
They got to do some more extra games too like the limbo which Amara liked, and had some more free-skating with the lights out and disco ball on (another favorite.)
But hopefully this is just the beginning. Amara has been skating up and down the driveway and Natasha tells me Irelyn has been skating around her house-- so who knows, maybe these two will be skating at open skates in the not so distant future?
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