Some Alone Time w/my Little Lady

Today was such a relaxing and much needed day. I love my son to death, but I cherish alone time with Kailee, as I love Kailee to death but cherish alone time w/Justin. I think it does them a world of good to get away from each other and have alone time where all the attention can be focused solely on them. I try my best to divvy the attention between the two of them equally but sometimes it just doesn't work out that way. Just like I will always secretly feel guilty that JP doesn't get nearly as much alone time or attention with me as Kailee did. Once you have that second child they never get what your first one did. So Paul and I always try to do little things with just one of them with us so they see what it's like. For instance Paul and Kailee have a movie date where it's just him and her while Justin and I might go to the park or run errands. On his off days sometimes he'll take JP to the park while Kailee and I go grocery shopping. They eat this up. Kailee and Justin are basically each others play mates since all of their friends are in school now, so I think they can sometimes get on each others nerves. Kailee is at that very independent age and has been for quite some time so I know it has to be annoying for her to always have this little brother follow her around, and want to do everything she does, and be right with her all day. Today my plan was to take Kailee to story time at the library. This is my way of introducing focus and listening building skills to prepare her for Kindergarten, as well as socializing skills. She's still very shy at times if put in a group setting and even if she knows the answers or wants to sing and dance along she will sit there rather than shine in the group. We have opted not to put her in Pre K and let her go directly into Kindergarten next August. It's a decision I struggled with, but after seeing what all they teach I came to the conclusion I can teach her everything they teach in the setting of my own home, minus the socializing which brings me back to story time. So I go to take her to story time and when we got there found out story time has ended until 3 Sept. Ok no big deal. Paul had errands to run so him and JP were running all over the place. Plan B. Hmm it's 106 outside, near lunch time, what is there to do. I decided to take her to the mall play area. Hope and prayed it wasn't a mad house today. It literally doesn't matter what day or time you go to the mall it's mom, school, playgroup central. Luckily it wasn't crowded at all. I was so relieved. I can have anxiety attacks at that place much like Chuckie Cheese. So for me I was extremely glad it was relatively calm. Kailee had soooo much fun. She ran all over the place. Watching her I realized I have a very responsible respectable child. She is far more mature than her age. She's the kid who lets others go down the slide before her, watches out for younger smaller kids, says excuse me, and never hits or pushes another kid. I was so proud of her. Eventually she ran herself hungry and decided she wanted chicken nuggets and apples. So to the food court we went. Which thankfully was just across from the play area as the mall was crowded. As I was sitting there talking to her, watching her, admiring her, two girls directly behind us made the comment "You are so lucky to have a girl. Must be nice." I turned and said it sure is. And realized they had two boys a piece. I made sure and let them know I also had a two year old son. And, got the you're so lucky to have one of each. Funny how sometimes you can forget just how lucky you are. I mean I know how lucky and blessed I am to have to perfectly healthy kids, but at times I forget just how nice it is to have one of each. To be able to experience the differences between the both. Anyways, after lunch we went and played in the play area for about another hour. Kailee of course being Kailee made up songs, danced and twirled, ran all over the place and straight wore herself out. I still needed to make a much needed trip to Victoria Secret to get a bra, so on we went. Kailee LOVES VS. Obviously she's my child, because I could literally spend the entire day there and be happy as can be. LOL So I got sized,looked around, fought Kailee on trying to make me buy a pink bra simply because it's her fav color, and Kailee went crazy. Our VS has an entire section of nothing but body lotions, perfumes, sanitizers, make up, shampoos, and conditioners. She is a smell person. She loves smelling lotions and wearing chap stick. I think we must have smelt every lotion, body spray, sanitizer, perfume they had before we got to leave LOL Then I made the mistake of going into Bath and Body. UGH as if my nose wasn't burning and I wasn't itching enough. :) So we walk around and again we have to smell tons of scents. She is OBSESSED with sanitizer. I mean both of my kids love sanitizer and always ask for some. So she was in heaven with all the mini sanitizers. She was so cute. After Bath and Body we stopped at Mrs Fields cookies so she could get an icee. It's a ritual with her. Anytime we go somewhere and she's good she gets an icee. Well of course she wanted a cookie as well. So she picked out a cookie monster icing cookie and then decided Justin needed one too and got him and Elmo icing one. As if that wasn't sweet enough she put in how much her daddy liked sweets and cookies and picked out two for him as well. I opted to pass on the cookies. My hips definitely don't need one of those LOL. So off to home we went where Kailee and I prepared some dinner and waited for Paul and Justin to come home. Paul said Justin did super well while running errands and even managed to nap for two hours. Kailee was wore out from fun so after talking to her Nana from Texas she was out. Justin followed shortly after, so I'm waiting for myself to get tired. But in the meantime I'll post some pictures of us from earlier.