Dad in charge

Well, a pretty slow week/weekend here in Seattle. The weather has been PERFECT. I want to remember this moment come winter, so bear with me as I blog about it. I love the weather here. It has been sunny and warm with a constant cool breeze. At night it always gets nice and cool, a requisite for me sleeping well. I love it.
Saturday morning I left the girls with Stephen to throw a baby shower for a friend. I came home and Stephen showed me pictures of what their morning had been like. Needless to say, my first concern was that the paint they used was non-toxic, my second concern was that every time Odessa paints now, she will want to face paint. Paint her own, or mine- either one is not an option! What was this anyway, some kind of sick nod to Heather Ledger in "Dark Knight"?
Why do dad's always do things like that when they're home? They always let them do something that you are going to have to work at keeping them from doing for the next 6 months! ha ha
Saturday afternoon we walked down to the Seattle Center for Bite of Seattle. The crowds were crazy, so we didn't stay long. We registered to vote and I saw someone drinking straight out of a young coconut, so I asked where they got it and we tracked the booth down. In the Philippines, that was a special treat that people would share with us. Stephen asked if it tasted the same- it did except in the Phils they weren't refrigerated and we usually didn't have nice spoons to scoop out the flesh. We had to use part of the husk for that. Again, like last week's post, I forgot our camera and am stealing photos from the web.
Saturday night Stephen wanted to watch "Spirit" as a family while we ate dinner. Again, another moment that I had to remind Odessa that this was a special Daddy/weekend activity and not something we would be doing regularly. Odessa found the movies this week and she loves Spirit. She has loved the sound track for over a year now, and it's only fitting that it was one of the first movies she wanted to see and loved it. We had a good time, gathered around the coffee table. Odessa and Stephen neglected to eat as they were glued to the screen (Stephen has never seen it before!). Ada plowed through her dinner and ate about 2 cups of berries before anyone else could blink an eye. I have to cut her off from them, she can eat a whole flat if I let her.
This morning, Odessa got herself ready for church and I had to include a picture of that. This week she said some of the funniest things. This morning she kept asking to watch a movie and we kept explaining that we don't watch movies on Sunday and finally I said unless she wanted to go to her room to her bed, she needed to stop. She said very matter-of-fact "I don't have to stop, I just talking to you." It was so funny and a good example of what a handful she can be. At least she didn't say it in her sassy voice, or that would have been TROU-BLE.