Fabulous Saturday

We had a ton of fun this past Saturday.  The morning started off with Dan getting up with Junior and Katelynn. I probably only got to sleep in about 20 minutes longer than everyone else, but hey I will take it.  The kids had a little breakfast and played around the house.  Dan had a funeral to attend and had to get ready to go.  I did some laundry, dishes and cleaned.  I even got a workout with my Wii Fit board in for 30 minutes while the kids played along side me.  Katelynn tried to keep up and run in place with me for awhile, but she thought it was getting boring and decided building blocks would be more fun.  With the house clean and the kids being patient  I decided it was time for them to enjoy some fun and I went on a hunt for the the bounce castle.  After doing some searching above the garage, in the mechanical room, and the locked gun room, I finally find it in the storage area.  The kids had no idea what I was doing.  They just kept asking and I kept telling them you will have to wait and see.  Katelynn new exactly what it was when I pulled it out, but Junior just kept asking what it was.  He figured it out pretty quickly!  It also gave me a great opportunity to attempt some action shots with the new camera.  I did a bunch of different types of camera configuring to see what the pics would turn out like.  Definitely discovered that I have a lot of learning and practice to do.  I had to delete the majority of them, but oh well, gotta start somewhere.

Here are a few pictures of our jumping fun.

While the kids were jumping I went and made us some lunch quick.  Dan came home shortly after lunch.  I let the kids do a little more jumping before it was time for a nap and time for Katelynn to have an hour of quiet time in her room.
Katelynn has filled her chart with Good Checks and had only a few number of bad checks so it was time for her to cash in on her reward.  I have tried the positive spin on everything and it just didn't seem to get through or sink in for Katelynn.  I decided one day that we needed to have something for her to measure.  We have a chart that has one side with Good marks (which are checked off with hearts) and a Bad marks side with a check mark.  Whenever she does nice things for others, stays in her bed after we say good night and when she makes good comments she gets good marks.  She really only has a few bad checks.  It is actually one of the more powerful tools in the house to get her to understand what she is doing is not enjoyable or wrong.  I wonder if it is because the check doesn't go away?  A time out doesn't really change her behavior for us, but one mention of the bad check and the lips get zipped or she screams Noooooooo and we then explain what she needs to do in order to keep from getting it.  Anyways - She filled the good side up and her reward was to get to go to her first movie at the movie theater.  We let her know before her quiet time that today was the day and she got to pick what movie.  I really thought she would pick Tangled, but because one of her friends recently went to see Yogi Bear that was the movie she wanted to see.  So Yogi Bear in 3D it was.  She had a tough time waiting to go.  She came down from quiet time and said that maybe, just maybe she was changing her mind about her movie pick.  She wanted to know if we went to Tangled if we would be leaving earlier.  I told her we would be leaving 30 minutes later if she wanted to see Tangled and that sealed the deal for her, Yogi Bear starts first then we're going to that one.  I wish that both Dan and I would have been able to take her for her first movie and Dan has never seen a movie in 3D, but someone had to watch Junior.  So the girls left for movie, pop and popcorn.  Katelynn was pretty excited, but acted like a little lady.  She waited patiently in line for the tickets and for the popcorn.  We got into the theater and she asked if the movie was on.  Nope honey it's just commercials and previews.  Then the real previews started and she asked if this was Yogi Bear and I said nope, these are previews, but it will be starting soon, I promise.  The movie started and we put on our 3D glasses, what a way to watch your first movie if you ask me.  About halfway through the movie she said that she didn't want to sit anymore, but I told her we still had some movie left and she would be okay. Her glasses came on and off a couple of times and she got a little restless, but she did a really good job.
Pictures from before the movie:

In the car before heading into the theater.

I've got my tickets!

This is the best!  A HUGE Popcorn and Sprite.

I was thinking of stopping at a few stores after the movie since we were at the mall anyway, but it was dark and I decided to stop at just one, Game Stop.  Katelynn has really been getting her sportsmanship figured out and some confidence while playing WiiKatelynn got to play their Kinnect, it was pretty cool.  We got an extra Wii remote and the Dance Moves game.  We came home and all played the Dance Moves.  It was so much fun, especially when made Dan play and had all 3 of us competing against each other and Junior watching us all and probably laughing to himself.  The kids stayed up a little later than usual and if they weren't tuckered out from all the jumping and dancing and playing on Saturday I don't know what wears them out then.  We had a great day!