This past Sunday was the Bear's first game of the season at Soldier Field. Daddy was out of the house and on his way there by 8:15am. He didn't return until 8:45pm. Now, I'm no stranger to spending days alone with the boys...even days-at-a-time alone with the boys. Weekends always feel different for some reason...like I should be taking them somewhere and doing something "not so normal". I sort of panicked on Saturday night thinking "what in the heck are we going to do all day long?" It was a rainy day, but we found plenty to do around the house and ended up having a great time!

First off, I wanted to make our typical weekend pancakes for breakfast. This is normally a daddy job and Brian usually tries to make a big A for Aiden and a big L for Logan out of the batter. Well...Aiden asked me to write his entire name for him. That's a lot of pancake for a little boy...until I came up with a (toot my own horn) genius idea: put the batter in a squeeze bottle! We have a ton of them left from Aiden's birthday party when we made sand art so I mixed up a batch, poured it in one of the bottles and went to town. We have a giant skillet that Brian inherited from his company (long story) so it's easy to make "big" stuff. Aiden stood on a chair and directed pancake production, "make my name...now make a little Aiden man by my name..."

Here's a picture of our almost final plates. I made some little dot pancakes to go around the men too. I put syrup in a bowl for each of them. They tore the pancakes apart and dipped them into the bowls.
We're camping next weekend and I needed some time in our basement crawl space to pull and organize supplies. After breakfast, the boys went "to help me", but ended up requesting a Geo-Trax setup. They played with this thing ALL morning and some of the afternoon....until they destroyed it by bouncing giant balls around the basement. Brian had previously expressed some concern about Brady messing up the set-ups like he used to last year, but he had his own train and sat with his brothers happily playing away. Now the oncoming winter is starting to seem less daunting :)
We had some unexpected and very welcome company in the afternoon. Connor and Anna came down to play with the boys while their daddy enjoyed some solo-football-watching. When they left, I tackled another typically-daddy job: home made pizza dough. The four of us all made our own mini pizzas and had a floor picnic in the living room. Here is Logan ready to roll out his dough. Aiden is sneaking cheese while he waits.

And now Aiden is rolling and Logan is eating the cheese!

More cheese went into tummies than on to pizza for sure! Here's Brady stuffing his little face

And here is Bray painting on olive oil for mommy's pizza.

Phew! Sunday home Bear's game 1 of 4 survived! (Brian goes to 4 of the home games a year and then he and his fellow super-fans take an additional game each. Look for pics of Brian taking Logan to his very first Bear's game while Aiden, Brady and I do the up-coming Juvenile Diabetes walk on October 4th!)