My Friday

Wake up to the presence of a wiggling 5-year old in my bed. Apparently, Jonah woke up at 5:20 and didn't want to go back to sleep. So, and thirty minute sleep/shush/argument session began. Finley woke up at 6, so Krist got up and took Jonah and Finley into the living room. I snuggled back into the pillows for a little extra rest...

Six minutes later, I hear a loud clacking. As if a five-year old is hitting two blocks together. I open the door and say, "What's going on?" to which Kristen responds, "There are ants in Finley's room!" I get up, play exterminator for a bit, then head into the living room where Jonah's clacking his Silver Surfer action-figure against his Silver Surfer Action Surfboard. (We rented Rise of the Silver Surfer last night and watched 10 or 15 minutes of it, which was more than enough to send Jonah into his room to grab a comparable toy.)

In the living room (6:20ish, now,) Jonah's begging to watch more of the movie. We get the kids some breakfast and I say SURE WE CAN WATCH A MOVIE. Watching movie at 6:30 in the morning - either I'm the coolest dad ever or the worst one in the world.

Pretty soon, Krist wanders back to the bedroom and catches some sleep. We're all fighting a losing battle against the fast-approaching East Texas cold season, so many of us are crashing at weird times. Jonah and I finish the movie as Finley keep bringing me different clothing items she wants to wear. All girl, that Finley Wright...

Went to wake up Krist around 7:30. She mumbled, "Ten more minutes," which means LEAVE-ME-ALONE-TODD. So, I gave her 10 or 15 extra minutes before taking over the sleeping duties. She left me sleep for about an hour, then woke me up. Ate breakfast while Kristen got ready for work. I showered, built some Lego towers with Jonah and chastised Finley for tearing up her books. That's what she's into these days. We all got ready, took Kristen to work and ran around Lufkin until she was done. We went to Sonic for some milkshakes, then we stopped at a gas station to unload some junk in our car into their sizable trash bins. While at the gas station, we noticed a MediVac helicopter coming in, so we chased it to the hospital and then pretended we had orders to blow it up. (Not that we were trying to blow up a medical helicopter...we were doing a whole G.I. Joe type thing...you kinda' had to be there.)

Once we picked up Kristen, she told us she had heard on the radio about the grand opening of UFO Pizza Company, a brand new brick oven pizza join that they've been working on for a few months now. We drove there immediately. We loved it - affordable, nice atmosphere, and space decor. Not near as interesting to Mom and Dad as it was to Jonah, but hey, it made him excited to eat, which is always a blessing.

Came home and put Finley down for a nap, then helped Jonah earn more "Shine Sprites" on Super Mario Sunshine. Even Kristen helped us out. (She's more of a gamer than me and Jonah combined.) After way too much video game playing, Krist and I picked up the house a bit for a BIG party going down at the Wright house tonight.

Headed into town around 4:40 or so to get ice cream for everybody. Came home, put on some party clothes and got ready for the craziness.