Painting the day away.

Today, all the stars aligned and while Jeremy is at work for a couple of days, I had the day off and Parker and Everly both had gymnastics. This translates to: quality time with each of them by themselves which happens just a few times a year. Yay! I took them out on their own little dates and Parker chose wandering around his favorite toy store and going out for a cookie. Everly chose getting icecream and visiting a friend. For the main part of our dates, I surprised them with a trip to the pottery painting cafe where they each got choose anything they wanted to paint. It was like I was presenting them with Christmas and Birthday combined, and wrapped up with a little Easter bow and some Halloween sprinkles on it. They were elated to put it mildly. These two took their painting seriously. Parker wanted me to help him create his T-Rex Statue Masterpiece, while Ev insisted I close my eyes the entire time (an hour and a half!) so I could be surprised.