surprise...

it's been pretty cold here, that's all i can say. so much so that finding activities to do with the kids this week has been a little on the though side. for some reason fridays usually seem like the longest days to me. i think because it is the first day the kids are off of school, and it feels like i really have to work hard at finding stuff to do to help break up the day.
today was just like every other friday. there i was at 9 in the morning on the phone with alyson debating what we could do with the kids. living in florida, most entertainment is found out doors, so when the weather is as cold as it has been your choices are certainly limited.
it didn't take us too long till we came up with the perfect conclusion. A MOVIE DAY! i called up mother and she was happy to oblige to watching nataley while we took the big kids to see "madagascar". i decided that because seeing movies in the theater is something we rarely do, i would build it up for the kids, and maybe get some good behavior out of it as well. all morning i kept telling levi and livi they were going to have a surprise in the afternoon if they were good and listened to everything i said to do the first time i said it. levi understood the concept, and made sure that both he and alivia were on their very best behavior all morning long.... we did have one little dog food incident, but levi put a stop to it the second i looked over at him.
as soon as my mom got to the house we were off.....
as we drove i kept asking them if they were excited about their surprise, and their faces beamed! i will say this, i was a little shocked at the amount of people that have enough free time in their day to go watch movies in the middle of the afternoon on a friday! we had to wait in a line that wrapped around the building, and we ended up being a slightly late for the movies start (which makes me glad i wasn't with brian cause he would have made us leave, or see something else).
i was anxious to see how alivia would do. the first and last movie we have ever taken her to was right before nataley was born. we went to see "Wal E" and alivia and i ended up shopping in the mall while brian and levi finished the movie (we shopped for over an hour, to give you an idea of just how short her attention span was).
surprisingly all four kids did really good. i did have to make three bathroom runs, one for levi and two for alivia.... at least she didn't have an accident though.
there are two parts of this days adventure that crack me up.
the first one is this.....
the last time when i had to take alivia to the bathroom, i grabbed her hand and we made our way to the restroom and i had a semi shocked look on my face when i saw alyson and christopher walk out. YIKES! i left levi and lexi in the movie by themselves! i never even saw alyson get up! don't worry they were fine!
the second one is the best....
the moment the movie was over and we were walking back out to our car, levi looked up at me and said "mommy, are we going to go get my surprise now?" when i told him that the movie was the surprise he continued to say "i was a good boy for a movie, AHH MAN!" as ungrateful as it was.... it made me laugh out loud, what ever would i do without that comedian child of mine?