The boys had some kid play time over the past few days.  I invited Jennifer, Jesselyn and Jayden over on Saturday night as they had never been to our house.  Jesselyn and Jayden went off to play with Logan and Connor in the game room as soon as they arrived.  Later they came down to join us for dinner, and told us that they would be playing “school” next.  Jesselyn was the teacher, and Connor was the star student or her helper.  Logan apparently enjoyed pretending being in trouble and receiving the “punishment” slips they made.  They played well up there as we hardly heard much from them.  Later they moved on to playing “family” too.  They had a good time.

    Logan and actually Connor were invited over to Logan’s classmate Maxim’s house on Sunday morning.  Since this was the first playdate at their house, we decided to keep Connor with us instead.  Connor was disappointed, but he was fine hanging with us too.  After I dropped Logan off at 9:30am, the three of us got ready and off for some shopping at Target.  Afterward, Connor wanted to walk around the mall.  He had fun holding both of our hands and later doing some swing jumps.  He enjoyed being the only child for once.  We picked up some lunch, then it was time to head back to Maxim’s house.  We all went in to say hello and to meet their new puppy. Logan had to stop playing the video game with his friend and said thank you to the parents for the fun playdate.

    After school today, one of Logan’s ex soccer mates from school came home with us to play.  I had the boys and Mason do most of their homework while they ate snacks first.  Afterward, they were off to play.  Mason is just a little older than Logan but still one grade ahead of him.  They played ok, but we felt that we had to keep an eye on them.  Connor hung out with me for the most part, but went to check on the boys sometimes.  A couple of hours later, the mom and the brother came by to pick Mason up.  Then we all resumed our usual schedule for a Monday night.