I am relieved to say that this weekend was rather uneventful for our circus of a household.  But, even though we didn’t have any infectious cat bites I certainly learned a few interesting things.  

I learned that my cat Isa, the nice one that didn’t bite me, is so fat that when she is sprawled in my lap she can support the weight of Macbook without being affected or put out in any way. She stayed there comfortably for about 30 minutes before her enormous girth was too much for even me.  

I learned that there is no way to get a four year old and a three year old to agree on a pumpkin face unless you let daddy draw it and then shout ‘back up!  there’s knives everywhere!’  Meet Wally Scary, our pumpkin graciously named by our children.  

I also learned that even tricycles can be dangerous and it is a good thing we make the kids wear helmets.  We took the kids to the park today to practice riding bikes.  We did this mainly to ease my mind from the weird anxiety I have about my kids lacking the strength and skills to pedal.  Mia freaked out when the wind blew and felt she was going too fast.  She stopped riding.  Jacob gave it a bit more effort, but gave up for good reason.  Did you know that tricycles don’t have brakes?  Jacob discovered this after he began to pedal, couldn’t stop, and flew over the edge of the trail and into a small ravine.  I don’t have pictures of this because, well, I’m just not that bad of a mother.  He fell about 6 or 7 feel and landed flat on his face.  He emerged with no injuries and a new hatred for his tricycle.  We came home and practiced riding more in the driveway and hubby informed me that the only way our children could be so bad with steering and balance is if they had been eating paste or were drunk.    I really wanted to agree.  

The weekend is almost over and Monday will be here soon enough.  I’m sure next week will bring a whole new load of craziness…in costumes!