Spring Break-without a break

So spring break for the school kids was this past week. Little man is of course then only one out of my 3 that goes school. This week he went out of town with him mom to Cancun. The girls of course have no idea what "spring break" so they didn't care but we took advantage of my friend being off to go on adventures everyday. It was honestly tiring since I'm just now getting over my respiratory virus.

Spring break week my bosses were living with my guy bosses parents, out in the country, because the floors were being done. Anyway so Monday we didn't do much, just hang out in grandmas house. 

Tuesday we (my bff and I) took the girls to the Perot. Seriously if you live in the Dallas area please check this museum out, it really is top notch and worth every penny. I am fortunate that my bosses pay for a yearly family membership. 

Wednesday we ventured out to chuck e cheese...with the rest of the families in the DFW area. The place was packed!! The girls have never gone so I was curious to see how they would do. It honestly wasn't bad, except the girls were terrified of the mouse! So much that little lady wanted to go home. Except for that the girls did awesome and the pizza there is really good! Little bug was a little obsessed, like a little old lady, to the Plinko game. She kept wanting to put coins in the machine, she couldn't get enough! "More peas more" We laughed so hard because in her first try, she won 100 tokens! She of course had no idea what was going on! 

We ended up with 399 tokens and both girls got Frozen tattoos, plastic bracelets, some stickers and some other random trinkets. 

Thursday we had an adventure day in downtown. We started by having brunch at a yummy place called Yolk. My friend and I had this in Chicago and we were so excited to know they were opening one here. 

After Yolk we walked to the Dallas Museum of Art, where we participated in story time. The girls loved it! After the museum we walked to Klyde Warren Park and the girls really enjoyed playing in their tree house and jungle gym type thing. 

We had a cupcake before leaving and the girls napped all the way home.

It was such a fun day! I was so grateful that my friend hung out with us, she is so good with the girls and the girls love her! 

I'm happy to be going back to our normal routine this week.

So how did you spend your spring break?

That's it for now, stay safe! Adios! 

Monday Talk

Last weeks look who's talking...

Me: "L are you going to wear your uniform?"  

Little Lady: "yes my white unicorn one" 

Little Lady: "Sam I'm going to get my baby, cuz she needs me, cuz she's crying! Baby!! I'm coming!" 

Little Lady: "Sam can I have a blue gatorator (Gatorade)?"

Little Lady after I asked if she stepped on her friends foots on accident and her honestly is spot on: "It was on purple-less (purpose)"

Little Bees favorite thing to say right now is "no", "come on", and "k" 

Also on a super random note....I FOUND A GRAY HAIR ON MY EYEBROW! So like a gray eyebrow hair? Anyway here is the picture 

I might start looking like a dried up fig soon. 

Adios 

The woman with the blog...

...who never actually blogged. Oops! 

It's been like a month since my last entry, or more? So I apologize for the big gap.

Life in the P houshold has been busy! Little Lady has been working hard in learning how to write her name. Little Bee has been busy learning how to talk. For the longest time I was sure she had a speech delay since she is almost 2yrs old. Thankfully she's catching and up definitely making up for lost time. Half the time we still don't know what she's saying but she makes sure we know what she means, trust me, she is very clear in her intentions. Little Man has been giving us a bit of trouble. He's doing great in school just at home he has been having major attitude. He's going thru some emotional stuff. Besides that all the kiddos are great! 

This morning I was doing laundry and left the baskets on the ground to sort the clothes and both girls found great use of them! The love them some baskets! Apparently that's the best way to watch tv! 

Right before nap time both girls got super grumpy so I suggested we watch Frozen for the 163847 time, that movie NEVER fails. It has saved my mind God knows how many times. 

Little Bee is my lap buddy today. Been attached to my hip all morning. 

Both girls are napping now so maybe I will take a quick snooze too.

The weather is definitely getting cooler which makes me super excited! This girl does NOT do heat. I've lived in Texas all my life and trust me, I can take the 120 degree weather BUT I do not like it at.all!  So hurray for cooler weather! 

That's it for now! Be safe my friends! 

Adios! 

Ah Fall....

Fall is here! Kinda....we live in Texas so it's springish weather right now. Earlier in the month we had a really warm day, with a high of like 90 or something so we took advantage and went swimming! 

The new house has a heated pool and hot tub but we mostly have been using the hot tub since heating the entire pool would be incredibly expensive  and it would take forever. The hot tub is perfect though, the girls enjoy bobbing around in there and I like sitting and doing nothing while watching them play. 

Life has been going well...we have been very busy living and enjoying the new house and it's perks. The girls are really enjoying all the space and so I am, we aren't on top of each other anymore. The only down side is that now we actually have to drive to pick up Little Man from school. 

This week I have been fighting a severe sinus infection and an upper respiratory thing. I've been on a heavy dose of antibiotics and steroids. I never had a fever so I still came to work and we basically did this--> 

Yes America, I let the girls watch endless episodes of Dora and friends and destroy the play room. Which by the way, I had no idea Dora was all grown up! 

*yes I know Little Lady is wearing her mother shirt, we didn't go out to public that day

*yes I know the "play room" looks anything but destroyed but this isn't the play room, it's the tv room lol

Anyway, thankfully I am all done with the meds and I'm feeling almost 100%. 

We have been battling with some 8yr old attitude here lately. I guess that's normal but it's annoying. Thankfully Little Man is starting to understand that 1) I am not his personal maid, if I said pick up your backpack and shoes I mean it! Or there will be consequences, I'm done being Miss Nice Pants and 2) the world unfortunately doesn't revolve around him, period. 

There is some moments where I find him quite cute, like when he is trading his Pokemon cards. Which are all the rage apparently in 3rd grade. He seems to be "da man" to go to. Everyday after school he is shuffling! 

Hopefully he will get over the rut he's in soon, which I blame in his mother being practically non existent. But that's another story for another day. 

I'm looking forward to the cooler weather, I'm done with the warmth. I hope it's nice and cool when I take the girls to our yearly Arboretum outing to see the pumpkin village! 

Peace!  

Sea Life Aquarium

Well...I should be proud of myself for blogging 3 times this week!! I'm writing today since it's a day off! Whoo! Thanks America! I can't promise that it will be like this every week but I'm going to try. 

So I had mentioned in the previous post that we paid a visit to the Sea Life Aquarium in Grapevine this week. I actually have been to this aquarium once before and really liked it. It's not as big as the Dallas World Aquarium and has less halls (no otters or frogs or flamingos or leopard) BUT it is less expensive and you don't have to pay for parking. 

I think Sea Life did a great job catering to small children. Everything was right down to their eye level and only once did I have to pick up Little Lady (2.5) to see something. I felt pretty safe letting them explore since there's almost nothing they can't touch. It's also nice and small so the kids don't get too overwhelmed or exhausted. 

They have a nice sting ray bay in which there's a balcony with glass floor so you can see them swimming below you. Little Lady really enjoyed this. 

They also have lots of nooks where the kids can get a closer view, the kids really liked those.

They have a nice display of Sea Horses and a really cool shark tunnel that's made all up of glass...even the floor! It was really cool! Unfortunately I didn't get pictures of this because at this time Little Bee was throwing a fit and I was trying to keep her form shrieking. 

There's also a really nice turtle tank (?) where they have rescues so that was super neat. I didn't take pictures of that either...oops! 

So there you have it! It was a fun day at a very fun place! The kids really enjoyed it and so did I! It's a good place to go in the summer, since it's indoors and not 183930 degrees. 

 She said "look! It's finding Nemo fish!"

Well...this is new!

Yo! Hi America! Welcome to my tiny,unknown little blog.

As the title states, this is new! New as in I'm new to blogging, new to sharing my thoughts and ideas via the internets. Please bare with me on this new adventure and learn to work this blogger sphere.

Now for introductions, I'm Sam....a 27 something going on 30 something year old.
As you probably figured, I'm a nanny! Been doing this for a living for 8 years and I've worked with 4 families.

As a nanny there are a lot of misconceptions about what we really do all day. No I don't let the kids watch tv all day, no I don't let them get away with misbehaving,  no I don't beat them, no I'm not sleeping with my boss, no I don't sit and eat ice cream all day. This blog came to me as an idea when a nice lady at the pool asked "what do you do all day? I bet the kids love pbs" Actually dear desperate housewife of the burbs, they do!! Not because they watch it all day but because they are allowed to watch Sesame Street during lunch. Let me make something clear though, there are many days when the watch tv more than other days and honestly, I don't even feel guilty about that. Any who that is where the idea came from, I should probably thank that lady.

So welcome! Welcome to my humble little page in which I probably will rant, talk about what the kids did today and what I really did all day. For now I leave you, as I just heard the baby waking up from her nap (I'm guessing lots of post will end with that 🙊)

Adios!