Sunday Snapshots: Mixing It Up

Yesterday, we mixed it up a bit.

Because Kati is not up to sitting in a straight-backed, non-cushioned chair yet, she sat on the love seat in the kitchen and we adults ate dinner at the kitchen table. We sat DaVinci's-Last-Supper style (all on one side of the table) so that no one's back would be to Kati. The children, who usually eat at the kitchen table, enjoyed their Sunday meal in the dining room. (The table setters had to be on their toes, and more than one kid sat in an adult seat before they were rerouted to the dining room.)

Owen brought his famous sweet potato biscuits. But when Papa said "Is this the sweet potato boy?," he said, "No."
Instead, we called him "the sweet boy" which he didn't like any better. When you're a seven-year-old boy, you don't want to be sweet. (Papa says that he wouldn't mind if someone called him sweet.)

Then we mixed up dessert. After lunch, we adults decided that we would go ahead and eat dessert and let the kids eat later. They were all playing happily when I fetched the Klondike bars from the freezer. But -(can you guess?)- before we had even removed the wrappers, every single kid came inside for a drink! (You knew, didn't you?) Busted! 

Narnia was the theme yesterday. The children constructed a bow, arrows, and quiver, swords, a dagger, a shield, and a flag.
Pine branches served as torches. Red markers made "scratches." 

After dessert, we mixed up game time...sort of. Really, we just brought the game to Kati and played our usual Apples to Apples.  

This little cutie left the outdoor play. She came in crying, saying, "I asked them what I could be and they didn't!"
  After some consoling from her daddy, she was content to draw picture after picture on the MagnaDoodle.
(And she can write the letter "A" now, too!)

 My favorite story of the afternoon...

At Dairy Queen on Friday night, Ben took the dessert coupon from his kids' meal up to the counter all by himself and placed his order, a cup of chocolate ice cream. Returning to his seat to wait for his treat, he realized that he hadn't asked for sprinkles. (Alaine, whose daddy had ordered for her, was waiting for an ice cream with sprinkles.)

When the waitress brought the kids their ice cream, Ben mustered his courage. Turning away from the waitress, he said, "I have a question. I forgot sprinkles."  

(End of the story: The waitress brought Ben a little cup of sprinkles and he covered his ice cream.)

Susan, Edmund, Lucy, and Peter

Our day of "mixing it up" was lots of laid back fun. With all the special days coming up, our next "normal" Sunday is weeks and weeks away. The children are planning costumes and talking about what they'll do next when again they meet in Narnia.