Escorted out by Security with the Kids

So, the User Acceptance Test for my latest project starts tomorrow and I had some work to do this weekend to get ready for it.  My parents came down to help with the kids yesterday and they brought Lexie, which was fantastic!  The kids loved having both their grandparents and their cousin here.  So, I went to work yesterday morning and the kids were here with Grandma and Grandpa.  Today my parents had to leave in the morning and Brian went into work, so it was me and the kids.  I wanted to go into work and get the room set up for the testing and work with the system a bit, so I packed up some snacks and the kids pick a couple of activities and we went to the office.  I knew that the building that has the plant in it did not allow children, but we moved to a new building in October and the plant is not connected to our building, so I thought it might be okay.

So the kids and I get there and we get into the room and Isaac tells me that he has to go potty.  As we head out of the room we ran into a security guard.  He quickly informed me that kids were not allowed in the building.  He was very nice though and let Isaac go potty (he escorted us there) and then escorted us back to the room and waited as we packed everything up and then escorted us to the car. 

The kids were super good and we got into the car with no issues, and I think a lesson was learned by us all : )  Hopefully I won't hear anything more about it at work.

We have a Purple and Pink Bathroom

Okay, so I used to be totally anti-pink.  I never wanted to be a girly girl, I never liked wearing dresses, I didn't own nail polish or nail polish remover for a very long time.  Then I had a daughter.  She wears a dress nearly every day.  She loves pink and purple.  I now own nail polish because she loves to have her nails painted.  And now I have a pink and purple bathroom, and I chose the color.

To be totally honest, I chose a darker plum color, but in their adds, Lowe's lies about being able to "match anything".  Evidently they can only match things if there are of a particular size and the purple that I wanted on the tissue box (which you can see in the picture) was not big enough for them to match.  Anyway, I like the bathroom and Mackenzie loves it.  The wall space is small enough that if I get sick of it in a few years, I can repaint it pretty easily.

Mackenzie made a new friend this week.  Aubry lives across the street and is number 4 of 5 kids.  She is actually Isaac's age and has a younger brother, James.  They have a swingset, a trampoline and a sand table, which Mackenzie and Isaac both throught were great.  While we were in their yard, Aubry called her older sister over to "meet my new friend, Mackenzie", which was super cute and tonight Mackenzie asked if she could go outside to play with her new friend (although she couldn't remember her new friend's name).  Proof yet again that sex trumps age, but I am really glad that the kids are making friends in the neighborhood.