A Day in the Life of the Bartlett Boys...: 2 weeks, an Ice Storm and Still Kickin'

It's been several weeks since my last post and much has happened! The big boys (bb) and I had a fun afternoon at Fun City one Sunday afternoon...the boys had a blast running around playing in the ball pit, playing air hockey and all sorts of other games. They actually ate the pizza there, I think it was the garlic crust that they liked so much, which is good to know having such picky eaters. So, NWA got hit very hard by the ice storm last week. We were not anticipating the extent of damage and outages that we had. We lost power at around 5:30 on Tues Jan 27. We stayed in the house that night...it was about 20degrees outside so I don't know how cold it got in the house. We bundled H up in 2 pairs of fleece pj's on top of an extra pair of socks...I also tucked a fleece blanket on top of his sheet so he was extra warm! BB also slept in socks and fleece footed pj's in between mommy and daddy, we had an additional 2 blankets on the bed that night so it was really hard to move around! Wednesday we took the boys to Chick-fil-A for a warm meal and then daddy had to go to work. I went back to the house with the boys and we played in the house for as long as we could stand it...the temperature had probably dropped to about 40 by then inside the house and I was freezing! The boys didn't really act like they minded because they were running around keeping warm, plus I was making H keep his toboggan on his head...he didn't really care for that. We finally got ready to pick daddy up since we had dropped him off and I packed a quick bag because we were heading to a hotel. In case you ever wonder, keeping 3 toddlers in a 15x15 foot motel room for 2 days is NO FUN!!! The first night was horrible...they were running around like a bunch of wild animals because they were so excited to be in a "hotel". H was afraid of the shower and there was no bathtub so we got his body washed the first night and did not get his hair shampooed...the next day I didn't' even attempt the shower so he basically didn't have a bath for 2.5 days...all he did was run around with me so it wasn't like he was dirty or anything! Friday both H's babysitter and the boys daycare was opened so I was able to head back to work. After work we hit the house again hoping for power but no luck...we headed to Alma to stay at Mom Freda's house for the night before heading to Russellville for the rest of the weekend. Thank you to MF for letting us destroy her house for the night! It is a true blessing to have her in our lives! She made homemade soup, cornbread and pumpkin pie for us and the boys ate it up! They LOVE cornbread so that was their favorite thing! After saying our goodbye's on Saturday morning we headed to Rsvl. Chad kept the boys all day bc I had to go out of town to a funeral. It was a sad occasion but it was the best day I've had in a while, I got to spend all day with my sisters and mom! We didn't see our kids again until about 8pm that night! The guys even got all the kids out and took them to dinner. On the way out of the restaurant Chad was stopped by a passing car and the woman handed him a $10 bill, it was from the gentleman in the car, Mr. RL Summers...she told him that he loved children and to go get all the kids some ice cream. So on the way home they stopped by Sonic and got 3 Sundae's...enough that the kids could not eat it all by themselves so we were all able to enjoy it! Sadly, mom called yesterday and told me that Mr. Summers had passed away on Wednesday. I didn't know this man but I can only imagine the random acts of kindness that he did throughout his lifetime and what a loved man he must have been, I'm sure he will be missed.

The kids had a fun weekend playing together and on Sunday we visited some family friends...they have grand kids the boys ages so they had all sorts of toys to play with, I think the air hockey won them over though, they had a blast playing with it; although the fact that they had ample room to run around plus a couple of trees to climb probably didn't hurt either :o

Sadly it all had to come to an end and we headed back to NWA on Sunday afternoon, I forgot to mention that we got a call from our neighbor on Friday night saying our power was back on so we got to come home to a nice and toasty house!

We started this week off to Jackson not feeling well, sore throat and all so we started him on an antibiotic and by yesterday he was feeling 100% better. The other boys are good and we hope they stay that way! Hope everyone has a great weekend, I think we're going to start it off with movie night tonight...probably Madagascar II. Here are some pictures from the last few weeks.