From there we made a "mommy stop" at Sears and trade in 4 pairs of ripped jeans for new untorn jeans. I LOVE the Sears KidVantage program. Absolutely love it - especially the wear-out guarantee. If you don't know about this program, you HAVE to check it out. It save so much money, especially on jeans for twin boys!
While at Sears we found these great fedora hats for the boys. With their bright blue eyes and slender frames they could be Old Blue Eyes himself at 9 years old. I started calling them my Rat Pack (and sometimes made it my Brat Pack). I also thought they could be the fate-guys from "The Adjustment Bureau". :)
We headed over to Cinemark for a matinee - $4 tickets make them probably the cheapest around KC. We were so early the ticket booth wasn't even open yet! We had some time to kill, so we hit the arcade there, which seemed to eat more quarters than let us play games but still fun. We hit the concessions and got a large popcorn, drinks and Skittles - gotta have Skittles IN our popcorn sometimes. :)
While most people were there to see Hop today, we settled in for Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules. I wasn't really looking forward to it, but it was surprisingly entertaining. There were a lot of shared laughs and even a few adult-only laughs. Boys are already looking forward to the next one.
After the movie, we hit up the Half Price Bookstore. Since I got my Kindle it's been awhile since I looked at a real book! I didn't get one but the boys both picked up a Will Solvit book. They really seem to gravitate towards series books, which makes it easier sometimes.
From there we had to do some regular errands, like visiting the grocery store. We grabbed stuff for dinner and the makings for chocolate pudding pie (which was YUMMY). While we were there we found some cool $1 sunglasses, which transformed the boys from Rat Pack cool to Blues Brothers crazy.
Back at home, we settled in to watch Tangled which we had picked up from Red Box. That was SO cute! The boys liked it "except for all that singing". :) When it was over they said it was great so I teased them about liking a "Disney Princess movie". They hit the Wii while I made dessert and then dinner. Just before we ate we started their Magic Rocks aquariums - they're already looking cool and we'll finish them tomorrow.
After dinner we settled into Liar Liar then attacked the chocolate pudding pie (with French Vanilla whip cream). Just before bed, we read a few chapters of Matthew in their new "Super Heroes Bible" (NIrV). This Bible is really nice because it's written in a words they can usually understand and it adds really cool "super heroes" callouts (and Not! Super Heroes like Herod and Lot). The boys asked me to start reading them the Bible every night and this one is helping us stay on track.
All in all, it was a good laid-back day. Limited fighting and lost of silliness. Probably spent more money than I should have, but that's always a part of Yes day.
The biggest downfall to "Yes" day? Having to return to being a regular mom tomorrow. Hopefully they remember how much fun today was and aren't so argumentative for a few days. :)
