Sheep Guarding Llama

I say this nearly every month but wow, it is already the end of July!  Most of 2014 is already gone. Very depressing.

It’s Thursday.  The week has flown by for sure.  Had a number of important calls today and spent some time out in the fresh air catching up with people.

We did not go to the playground this evening.  Dominica was just not feeling like it and if the girls are not vocal enough about wanting to go we sometimes don’t.

Mostly a quiet evening.

It’s hump day and very little to report.  This week feels, overall, to be pretty uneventful.  We are still catching our breath from everything that has been going on recently.  Getting a chance to just hang out as a family again.  We’ve seen so little of each other this past month.

After work we all went to the playground again.  We love doing this as it lets the kids burn off steam and we all get some fresh air and exercise which is always hard to come by.

I played a like Wind Waker tonight.  The girls really like it when I play it and they want me to play it a lot more than I want to play it.  I find the game pretty much boring and frustrating.  It relies on a lot of boring action and hack and slash stuff that I do not enjoy and tells little to no story which is the part that I care about.  And the graphics, while the best ever from Nintendo, remain incredibly lame.  Like 2002 era lame.  Maybe not even that good.  They are still struggling to make games look acceptable for the PlayStation 2!!

So I played for a short while and got through the first major dungeon and then hung up my sword for the evening.

Got up at five this morning. Right after I got up, Liesl did too and sneaked into our room because she was lonely so she climbed into bed with Luciana and Dominica.

Starting reading “Founding Brothers” this morning on my drive in.  Slowly working through my backlog of Audible titles that I have yet to read.  It is amazing how many titles I have stored up and now long it can take to work through them all, even putting in a few hours every day doing so!

Tonight when I got home it was right up the hill to the playground.  Luciana always wants to go much more than Liesl does these days.  It was a shorter night on the playground tonight.

Watching some 30 Rock this evening.

Ah back to the grind. The weekend is already over. Hard to believe. It goes by so quickly. And this was an exceptionally eventful weekend too. Both girls are feeling well this morning. No lingering issues from the weekend. Thank goodness.

Busy day at work. Got home at nearly eight. Luciana had had a rough day and was sent upstairs a while before I got home. I went upstairs and found her fast asleep in our bed. Unfortunately Dominica had not though to put a pull up on her and she had peed the bed in her sleep and had not even woken up. That is how tired she was.

We woke her up to get her dressed to go to the playground and she kept asking “is daddy here” even though I was holding her and talking to her. She couldn’t understand that I was there. She was seriously groggy.

Liesl did not feel like going to the playground but Luciana begged but we knew that they both need to be worn out or they won’t sleep tonight so we took them as late as it was. So we walked up to the playground anyway. It had rained today so everything was wet. They decided to spend the time running around on the wood chips rather than playing on the playground set. They burned a lot of energy.

It was nearly nine by the time that we got back. I worked for about fifteen minutes then we watched an episode of 30 Rock and it was time to get the girls heading off to bed.

Tonight Liesl was the one who managed to fall asleep and Luciana was up for hours. Eventually Luciana came downstairs and snuggled with me for an episode and a half and then we all went to bed. Ciana asked if she could sleep in our room and Dominica was feeling generous. Ciana was very happy and pretty much went straight to sleep there.

The girls are both doing well this morning. Luciana has no signs that she had a major accident and ER trip yesterday except for a little goop in her left eye probably from the cut healing (you can’t see the cut.) Liesl says that her left eye is still soar but she is able to see today and it is not too bad. It started off soar but appeared to be all better by the end of the day.

I had much more work still to do today so spent the morning and the early afternoon upstairs in the bedroom working at the “office” to get things done. Liesl did a great job of leaving me in peace so that I could complete stuff. Luciana had a harder time of it and would come upstairs and try to play with me, play under my desk or hide underneath our bed as much as she could.

Dominica played Wind Waker with the girls, mostly with Liesl, for several hours. They loved that and were so excited that she got ahead of me today.

I was able to wrap up in the middle of the afternoon. Boy that felt good to get completed. I came down to spend time with the girls and Dominica took the opportunity to go out grocery shopping and to go to Subway to pick up dinner. While she was gone I played some Wind Waker on my own account with the girls but I did not manage to catch up to where Dominica was and Liesl does not think that I am nearly as good at this game as mommy is. Which I am sure is true. Dominica is an old Zelda player and I am new to it. I have only ever played a little Twilight Princess and nothing else and did not really get very far in that either.

Once Dominica was back home we watched several episodes of 30 Rock and called it a weekend.