September 23, 2021 - Thursday (353/365)


Day 353 of my 365 Photo Journal

It's pizza and a movie night! I always love Thursdays. The end of the work/school week is SO close I can almost taste it. I hosted a play date with my HC mamas today and we did a little Welcome Fall type craft with handprints turned into trees and leaves. It was cute and fun. The kids always love having their hands painted. Ollie spent the rest of the day begging to do it again...but not in a sweet way; in a crying, whiny, I'm super mad at you for not letting me do this craft until the glue runs out kind of way. 

Our HC had flowers delivered to us today, which was really sweet. They're super beautiful, but have several lilies in the arrangement...which could kill our cat. 😅 So we brought them up to our room and put them out of his reach for us to enjoy! 

Ollie convinced me to set up the ball pit for her to play in today and, although I knew it was a terrible idea, I did it anyway...because what's the point of having toys if you're not allowed to play with them ever?? Murphy did his normal trying to take over the ball pit thing, since he believes that this is actually his toy, but Ollie still had several whole minutes of fun in it before she lost interest. And then, later in the evening, I had about twice that many minutes of fun cleaning it up all by myself. :)



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