divide and conquer

This weekend, John and I employed two techniques that make parenting much, much easier. On Friday, we did a little Divide and Conquer. A and I had some girl bonding on the homefront. I picked her up from school and she got to choose dinner. We went to McDonald's, where we had Happy Meals and she wowed me with her Playplace climbing abilities. We then spent the majority time hanging out around the house.

John picked E up from school and headed up to Wilmington to see John's Aunt Kathleen and then head on to Philly for the Temple vs. Tennessee game. They met up with John's friend, Jason and his son, Ben. Good times were had. E wore A's cheerleader uniform...which was definitely too short, but she didn't care. John gets bonus points for putting the orange bow I packed for E in.


And here are the little cuties from when they were almost 1 year old.

On Saturday, we all met back up at my parents house where we employed preferred parenting method #2: leaving them in the care of others. John and I headed into Arlington for our friends' annual Christmas party. We had dinner at Faccia Luna prior to going over which was delish as usual. The party was tons of fun, and was great to see everyone.

On Sunday, we stayed over at my parents' house most of the day, and then headed back in the evening. We had dinner at the Chili's that just opened up near us. The girls actually did great -- they ate tons and were well-behaved. The only issue is that both of them wanted to sit by me...so I was squished in the booth with the two of them while John got an entire side to himself.

In other news, we are pretty much done with Christmas shopping for the girls. We've got to get some stocking stuffers and one more thing for A...but otherwise we are done! Now all that's left is putting together the kitchen that they are getting. How much do you want to bet that we wait until the wee hours of Christmas Eve to accomplish that task?