Nightly ritual

This is quickly becoming a nightly ritual.



After dinner, the boys have "wrestle-fest" or roll around- on -each -other fest, or some sort of game. Bennett especially seems to be really wound up from dinner until, well, way after bedtime usually. He takes pretty long afternoon naps and just has this energy that needs an outlet. He gets this look where he sticks out his jaw and you know when he does that he is about to pounce on someone, pull them down or otherwise get really physical. The boy wears me out some days and I think it will be particularly challenging these next 2 weeks with Chris traveling. I can not do "wrestle-fest" justice nor do I really want to. At bedtime when we are trying to read books to the boys Bennett gets especially energetic and will not sit still for the Bible story or prayer. He just keeps falling on one of us, rolling over someone or keeps jumping on the bed. Not sure yet quite how to reel him in. But needless to say, we will miss Daddy a lot, but especially after dinner. Wonder who I could hire to come over and wrestle for an hour and wear him out these next 2 weeks?

Last night after a wrestling session, Austin decided they would all put on a concert and I would be the audience. You can see Chris' wide variety of interests are influencing our children- they easily switch from wrestling to instrument playing (neither of which I have had much of anything to do with).