The day started as always at 8 am, but I had gone to bed at 2 instead of 4 am last night, being tired. I made breakfast, we fed them, cleaned and dressed them, and Randy took them downstairs. Instead of going back to bed, I went to work in the kitchen, making a casserole for lunch. It was convenient to put it into the oven, and when my alarm woke me at 11:25 to feed them, the food was ready. Sammy was still sleeping, but woke up as soon as Randy came upstairs with his siblings, making noise.
We all sat down to eat. After the casserole, they also had watermelon and banana. Then I cleaned up Emmy first and put him to bed. Tammy came next, and by the time she went to bed, Emmy was nearly asleep. It took her a few minutes before she was too. As for me, I continued working, and it took me another two hours, until 2 pm, to get it all done - cleaning, preparing their dinner, and everything needed to go to church. Emmy already woke up after an hour, which is not much, and I could not get him to go back to sleep, so he went downstairs. Tammy slept for two hours, and I also took her downstairs. Sammy was tired, so I put him to bed next, and then went downstairs to play with the other two. Swinging, sliding, and throwing them around. At 2:30 we got their afternoon jars and fed them. At 3:15 we went upstairs, which woke Sammy up again, and Randy fed him, while I started dressing the other two. It's unbelievable how much time it takes to dress them all and get them all ready. Good thing I always set plenty of time apart, and so we left in time at 4 pm, and caught our train.
We got to church a few minutes before the service started, and got the little ones out of the strollers. They always start slowly and get more lively and active as time goes on. Once again they walked around everywhere, making friends with people, and Tammy was sitting on strangers' laps. Our friend Anna we hadn't seen since November was there as well, and it was nice to see her. She also played with them a little bit. One time she walked around with Tammy, who ended up on an office chair in the tech booth!
Emmy was enchanting everyone with his smile as always. He also interacted with a little girl we always see, when we're there. Anna took great pictures of him, when he was on the chair with me. He was getting pretty tired towards the end.
As soon as the service ended, we put their coats on and put them into the stroller to go home, so we didn't get to talk to anyone, but it was time. We were lucky that a train came right after we got to the train station after having taken the tram. And so we got home earlier than usual.
Since Emmy had only slept an hour all day, he feel asleep quickly in the stroller. Once home, we changed and put to bed the other two first, and then woke Emmy up and put him to bed. Tonight bed time was not a problem, not even for Tammy.
And then it was making food and eating time as always, followed by office work. Time just flies, and another week is about to start. I can't believe it's already the middle of March!
