Well, I might be a bit too good to the GBs. They both decided yesterday that they wanted to live with Nama. I asked them what about mommy, and they said that they could go and visit her sometimes. Adorable as all get out, but sadly mistaken about my ability to care for them 24/7. Of course some of that might have been the fact that I bought my GS a new bike yesterday, his old one was WAAAAAYYYYYY too small for him, so we went my mom drove us to the salvation army to donate it (and they were having a 99 cent sale so of course we went inside and bought even more clothes than what the kids need right now and a couple of books) and then headed to Walmart for his new bike.

My mom also picked them up horns for their bikes so we had a very noisy trip back to the house as the horns went off in the backseat. Somehow we made it without having an accident, ate lunch and then the kids spent the next hour or so out riding their bikes until it was time for "quiet time" during which even the GS fell asleep and actually stayed asleep longer than his sister. And after they woke up they rode their bikes for about another two hours before coming to announce their plan to move into Nama's house and just go visit mommy.

I wonder if that's a sign that I spoil them too much??? Or a sign that mommy doesn't spoil them enough? I mean I know she's severely lacking in rules for the kids, still doesn't quite have down "quiet time" for them and her food is well... not fast food but not great food either, lots of cans and boxes and not canned veggies and boxed pastas for the kids to eat either, but still an upgrade for the GS from what he had been eating with his father it seems. Whereas at Nama's house they gets lots of veggies, lots of fruit, some grains and protein. The GS also felt it important to announce that he "poops" better at Nama's house . While I would love to say "I don't want to know what the means..." Unfortunately I know that it means they aren't getting enough fiber when they're with mommy.

But anyways, in addition to their plans to just move into Nama's house, they also seem to think I need to go to NH more often, I shouldn't wait a whole YEAR before going again, they think next week or maybe the week after would be a great time to go. I even reminded them of the 20 hours in the car, and it taking two whole days to get there. The GS came up with a plan for that one too, we could take Nampa along and he could drive while Gigi sleeps, and then they could switch and he'd even wear pull-ups so we wouldn't have to stop so many times. He also thought that maybe we should just fly up there since that wouldn't take as long as driving because planes don't have roads that turn. Explained that it would take a lot of money for all of us to fly up there, so he decided that Nama and Gigi could just stay home and Ant Leannt as he calls her, could pick him and Zoe up from the plane, then it wouldn't cost so much. And if it still was going to cost too much "well maybe you could go to a bank and ask them to give you lots of money, then you would have enough money for all of us to go." (Providing I had a get away car and a fake I.D. to fly to NH until the 'heat' was off me. )

I tell ya the kid has ideas, not half bad little schemes if one could ignore reality for a bit, and his perchance for criminal acts in his schemes. But his little mind is furiously working away at figuring out how he's going to get back up to NH before a year is up, and both of them are trying to figure out what they have to do to move into Nama's house. They couldn't quite agree to never break the rules since as my GS pointed out... "well sometimes we just forget the rules, but sometimes... sometimes we will follow all the rules..." (not five minutes later he proceeded to leave the screen door open, push his sister and fight her to try and snatch away from her... hey sometimes they just forget the rules...). 24/7 of that... I don't think this body can handle it, cute as they are and remarkably well behaved given their ages and 10 month separation.