Saturday Relaxing!

This morning we went to the Parker Water Park with Jodi and Jaxson! I'm really not sure what it's called, but it's this charming little neighborhood place that has both ginormous water slides and a wonderful area for little ones where they can climb up stairs, go down little slides, shoot water cannons and do any assortment of super fun things. It's the kind of place I would have loved to have around as a kid ~ and my favorite sort of place now!

Of course, Caleb and Jaxson just realllllllly liked the stairs. Not kidding. Jodi made a joke about getting our workout in just following them around. I was feeling fine while we were there, but when I came home and rested, getting back up was a little painful in the glutes! Nice!

Anyway, this was the first time the boys have gotten together in a while, and it was fun at the very end to see them bonding and playing together. The unfortunate thing is that they were bonding by running away from their moms. No wonder juvenile delinquents have such close relationships! It's FUN to be rebellious!

Oh, and I had my first almost spanking in anger incident, too. Caleb is generally really good about holding hands in the parking lot, but after we left Jodi and Jaxson today and went to our car, he broke free and ran around the car next to ours. The thing that made me the most angry wasn't that he didn't respond to my "danger voice," but that he laughed when I went to grab him. He was making a game out of disobedience, and it set me off. I grabbed him off his feet and carried him to the car. I gave him one big swat and explained in a firm voice that we hold hands in the parking lot. But it was the first time that I've really had to fight down that desire to whup the tar out of him.

Anyway, on a lighter note, I wish we could go to the water park every day! He had so much more fun than he does at the pool, and he's been sleeping for ALMOST TWO HOURS! I had time to crack the spine of my new Harry Potter book, take a nap, write a grocery list, and sit down to blog! (I'm through chapter four of Harry. LOVING IT! It's a testament to how tired I am and how crazy things are when Jon is gone that I'm doing anything other than devouring it. The most recent one came out while I was still pregnant with Caleb, so this is the first one I'm reading as a parent. I just had to give up on the idea of having it read this weekend. The sacrifices one makes as a grown up!)

Oh, and a movie recommendation I have to make! You guys know that I don't consume movies the way I used to, and frankly, some of them that I do get to see really bore me. But this one warrants an adults-only shout out: Thank You For Smoking. I don't really know anything about the politics of the people who made it or the man who wrote it, but it definitely was well-made and laugh-out-loud hilarious. Poor little Katie Holmes is now two for two in crap roles last year as far as I'm concerned. She was the least entertaining part of both this and Batman Begins, but worse than that, she was kind of distractingly bad. I think she's just too young or something.

Okay, I think my bug is awake! Running to finish out the day with him in hopes that I'll be able to stay awake tonight to read more Harry!