While Daddy's Away....

Last Saturday we enjoyed a little time with Pat before work and played Rock Band. (This is truly a new obsession of ours) Mara decided that she wanted to play the drums too, so she pulled all the stools out from under the counter and got a couple of pencils and played along with Pat! It was so cute!!

This is just a cute picture from Sunday night! Mara & Sawyer were just laughing with each other.

They are the best of friends!

Pat started his Student Teaching on Monday and he will be doing this for 10 weeks. I'm glad to say, we survived week 1. It's been a little tough not having him home at night, especially for the kids, but I know we can do it! I just hope all goes well with the remaining 9 weeks.
Here are some fun pics of this week.
Mara decided that she needed to rock her bear to sleep. Afterward she put her on the couch with her head on a pillow and another pillow on top of her like a blanket.
Oh how she loves her bear!
We were able to get this really cool headboard for Xander that was on clearance at RC Willey. It has shelves and even pull out drawers on the sides. When Pat was home on Wednesday night, we moved things around and got it all set up! It's really nice and going to be well loved.
Xander's Bed Before:
Xander's Bed After:
Xander really likes this Marble Works set that my mom has and we get it out every so often. Yesterday he made a really tall one. We even got video of how it works :)

I've been having a craving to play my old SEGA and got it out when we were moving things around on Wednesday. I didn't even try to play it until Thursday night and discovered that I was missing a cord. Luckily, I was able to call my cousins that live on my street and they had a cord that I could borrow. We were able to get it working and I'm realizing that these games I used to play can be fairly hard!! (Thanks again Dane & Cody for the cord)

This is Wonder Boy in Monster Land, it's fun and I let Xander play it. I have been playing Wonder Boy III (it actually has passwords to save progress!! Totally awesome!!!)

Mara actually let me do her hair fancy today!! Too bad it only lasted the afternoon!And here is my tired toddler at this very moment. She has been up since about 5:30 this morning. She wanted to watch Snow White on my mom's bed and sure enough, she fell asleep!! It's so great when that happens. I just hope she'll go to bed okay tonight!
And for my own memory: Wednesday night I had Enrichment and that is the only night of the week that Pat is home. He was a great husband and put the kids to bed while I was gone :) Well Thursday morning after Pat left for school, I am woken up by Mara, stark naked, standing next to my bed holding a nightgown. I ask her what happened and she just tells me "My bed is wet!!" So I go into her room and sure enough her bed is wet, because daddy forgot to put a diaper on her before bed time! But Mara was so cute and had taken off her wet nightgown and underwear and got a clean nightgown out of her drawer and that is what she had with her. Now we will always make sure she has a diaper on before going to sleep!