Today I went to the Hyatt Spa after work for a few hours of me time. It was nice to relax and read a book (Peony in Love by Lisa See). The spa is participating in Spa Week, so I got the pedicure at a reduced price, plus I had a gift certificate to use. All I had to pay for was tip!
I forgot to post a funny story from the other day. The kids have taken to yanking on the living room blinds very hard and they've broken a couple of them. We do 'hand timeout' with them when they do something they're not supposed to, like yank the blinds, turn the tv off, pull on the wall pictures. We hold both their hands for a count of 10-15 and look them in the eye. They don't like it and after a few 'hand timeouts' they listen to 'Don't touch' and usually leave it alone.
So Cooper was yanking on the blinds and I start hand timeout with him. Charlotte crawls behind me and starts tickling my feet!! The secret to hand timeout working is that we stay calm, don't laugh and keep a serious look on our face. Yeah, that was impossible with Charlotte tickling me!! I started laughing and then Cooper started laughing and I had to just move everyone to another room to stop the yanking on the blinds. I am in trouble when they get bigger and team up on me!!
Tomorrow I'm taking them to the Santa Ana Zoo by myself to meet some other OC moms and young babies. I think my two will be the oldest, but there is another mom going who is also adopting a family member (small world!), so I'm really looking forward to it. It's supposed to be really warm this weekend (in the 80's!) so we might take them to the beach on Sunday and let them play with the new sand tools and bucket Cooper got from Mikael, Che and Maile.
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