Helmets and Chocolate Cake

We had a nice weekend. Larry took the girls out most the day on Saturday and I got to do some relaxing reading. I also had to meet the contractor. He had to take out our oven since Sears won't do it because it wasn't installed by them. Without an oven or micro, we decided we just had to go out to dinner. Tomatinos is the girls' favorite. Mary gets cheese pizza (yes, at least she is finally eating pizza - Maggie will steal just the crust) and Maggie gets the spaghetti and meatballs with 4 extra meatballs so Mary can have some. They like to perform on a little platform before and after dinner. Somehow I lost most the photos...odd.

On the way to a birthday get together, the girls had to wear their helmets (they brought their scooters.)  I told them they looked 'special', but they don't really know the other meaning of that word. One minute they were being silly and wild and then next they were passed out!
The helmets were so big in the back that it made it very difficult to sleep!!! Poor Mary kept bobbing her head up and down over and over until I made an unsafe move and unbuckled her helmet.

Yesterday, we had to take our car into the body shop to fix the huge dent from the 18 wheeler accident, the scrape/dent from Larry running into a fence in the church driveway (can we open that up a little wider?) and a couple dents from me opening the attic ladder into the door. Luckily this is all on the right side of the car and insurance is paying for half of it. We got a Chrysler Town and Country with black leather interior - sticky and hot! The only thing I like about this car more than my Sienna is the Satellite radio (which I could get in my car, but I am too cheap) and the cool retro clock. I guess I love my Sienna!!!!

Then we had to wait for the Sears repair guy between 1-5. While we waited, we started on our fairy house construction.  We saw some amazing little fairy houses in a kids store window.

Besides being somewhat productive, this was quite possibly one of the worst days for the girls (and me). They went to bed way too late and were ridiculously cranky. Maggie had a meltdown over trying to get an old bra of mine that she took out of the trash to stay on her waist. At one point she said while crying, "I don't know what's wrong with me, I can't stop it (crying)." Her big girl teeth seem to be the main cause of all the meltdowns and the lack of sleep didn't help. The girls fought for most of the day. I was glad to have 40 minutes at the gym and of course, they were angels for the day care staff!!

Something that Mary said yesterday cracked me up. She doesn't want to eat her 'Gold Bar' (Fiber One) anymore. I said that we should find another one that she likes. She replied,  "I like the one that tastes like chocolate cake." I am sure you do Mary, I am sure you do! Not even sure she's even tried on like that, but if she could create one, that would be the flavor.