We haven’t done anything fun in weeks and every weekend was spent
lazing around the house. Because of this, I thought I would share
with you the awesome Rowley bedtime routine.
Bedtime starts at 8:30ish. At that time we have a mad dash up the
stairs. The winner is the first to get the legendary bump-gugs.
These are an abomination of jumping hugs that grew over the last year.
Originally, I would let the kid jump off their bed to give me a jump
hug. Then it evolved to where I would have to do some actions before
they would jump. Possible actions included me spinning, jumping up and
down, or (the kids favorite) playing an air guitar. Eventually, the
decided it needed even more participation on their part. With a bump
gug each kids gets to choose an action such as having me throw them
onto the bed, run around in a circle with them, do a wheelbarrow race,
or anything else that comes into their head. They each get five.
Five for each kid is a lot considering they are squirmy little
minions. The most popular bump gug is the “light speed” bump gug
where one kid pretends to be a monkey and chases me carrying the
other. We run through the bathroom, down the hall, and into the
bedroom where I throw the one being carried onto the bed. I prefer
this one as well as it is short.
After bump gugs, we read scriptures. Whoever listens to the
scriptures gets to choose a story. Usually this results in one story
a night. Occasionally two. The favorite book right now is a Curious
George book about different attitudes such as happy sad, hurt,
mischievous, etc. The kids love to read this story and substitute
other traits in place of the ones listed. For example, Silas read the
story tonight and we had 3 “be an elephants”, 2 “be a snake”, and 1
“be a shark”. Milo usually chooses traits like “tickle Silas” and
“jump on dad”.
After that we brush their teeth and its lights out. Amber and I then
go downstairs while the kids play upstairs for the next 2 or 3 hours.
This ends when they fall asleep or they make so much noise that Amber
goes upstairs and threatens to shut the door. The door being shut is
practically capital punishment so they go to sleep pretty quick at
that point.
Silas spends his days playing boardgames. He loves Heroscape and
plays it non-stop. Milo plays with him sometimes but will more often
veg in front of the TV. Both kids are required to do homework
worksheets before watching TV or playing games. Silas usually does 4
or 5 and enjoys them. Milo grumbles and complains while he does two.
The other day I caught Silas feeding our cat multiple bowls of food.
I asked him what he was doing as there was way too much food for even
an army of cats to eat. He slyly replied that he was trying to make
our cat really fat. I pointed out that the cat was already extremely
obese and that perhaps less food might be better. He retorted that he
wanted the cat so fat that it broke our house. At least we know why
our animals are huge now.
Yesterday and today we watched all of our old family movies.
However, the videos don’t transfer quite right to the computer so I
can’t share them. The sound gets way off. As soon as I can transfer
them, we’ll post them so everyone can enjoy hour long videos of people
riding the patriot duo. Its about as exciting as it sounds.
Have a good week everyone! The next update will be exciting as it
will probably include Amber’s mega-awesome birthday and Milo going
back to school. Stay tuned!
lazing around the house. Because of this, I thought I would share
with you the awesome Rowley bedtime routine.
Bedtime starts at 8:30ish. At that time we have a mad dash up the
stairs. The winner is the first to get the legendary bump-gugs.
These are an abomination of jumping hugs that grew over the last year.
Originally, I would let the kid jump off their bed to give me a jump
hug. Then it evolved to where I would have to do some actions before
they would jump. Possible actions included me spinning, jumping up and
down, or (the kids favorite) playing an air guitar. Eventually, the
decided it needed even more participation on their part. With a bump
gug each kids gets to choose an action such as having me throw them
onto the bed, run around in a circle with them, do a wheelbarrow race,
or anything else that comes into their head. They each get five.
Five for each kid is a lot considering they are squirmy little
minions. The most popular bump gug is the “light speed” bump gug
where one kid pretends to be a monkey and chases me carrying the
other. We run through the bathroom, down the hall, and into the
bedroom where I throw the one being carried onto the bed. I prefer
this one as well as it is short.
After bump gugs, we read scriptures. Whoever listens to the
scriptures gets to choose a story. Usually this results in one story
a night. Occasionally two. The favorite book right now is a Curious
George book about different attitudes such as happy sad, hurt,
mischievous, etc. The kids love to read this story and substitute
other traits in place of the ones listed. For example, Silas read the
story tonight and we had 3 “be an elephants”, 2 “be a snake”, and 1
“be a shark”. Milo usually chooses traits like “tickle Silas” and
“jump on dad”.
After that we brush their teeth and its lights out. Amber and I then
go downstairs while the kids play upstairs for the next 2 or 3 hours.
This ends when they fall asleep or they make so much noise that Amber
goes upstairs and threatens to shut the door. The door being shut is
practically capital punishment so they go to sleep pretty quick at
that point.
Silas spends his days playing boardgames. He loves Heroscape and
plays it non-stop. Milo plays with him sometimes but will more often
veg in front of the TV. Both kids are required to do homework
worksheets before watching TV or playing games. Silas usually does 4
or 5 and enjoys them. Milo grumbles and complains while he does two.
The other day I caught Silas feeding our cat multiple bowls of food.
I asked him what he was doing as there was way too much food for even
an army of cats to eat. He slyly replied that he was trying to make
our cat really fat. I pointed out that the cat was already extremely
obese and that perhaps less food might be better. He retorted that he
wanted the cat so fat that it broke our house. At least we know why
our animals are huge now.
Yesterday and today we watched all of our old family movies.
However, the videos don’t transfer quite right to the computer so I
can’t share them. The sound gets way off. As soon as I can transfer
them, we’ll post them so everyone can enjoy hour long videos of people
riding the patriot duo. Its about as exciting as it sounds.
Have a good week everyone! The next update will be exciting as it
will probably include Amber’s mega-awesome birthday and Milo going
back to school. Stay tuned!
Jeremy