Underwear that's fun to wear!

So these last few days the boys and I have been home together. No school/activities, whatever, just fun with mom, er, sort of...

I thought we'd get out and do some fun things, but I was surprised when I was met with resistance.

On Thursday: "Mom, I'm going to rest for an hour, and then we can go out"
"No, I don't wanna change my 'jamas - no pants no shirt, no!" "Maybe we can go outside tomorrow" Yada yada yada....so Thursday nothing happened, although I did manage to do five loads of laundry.

Friday I pleaded to their gentler sides, I bribed them: "I'll take you to McDonalds (I hate that place) if you come with me to the post office!" - big cheesy smile, lots of fanfare.

"Ok, but I have to rest for a while""No change diaper - later!"
Finally - Genius let me take him in the car, but only if he didn't have to get dressed. He wore Thomas the Tank undies (which, now that I think about it, belong to his YOUNGER brother) and no shoes. We were going to drive by a post drop box, so it wasn't like we had to get out or anything.

In contrast, bruiser insisted I change his diaper and give him fresh shorts. However, he insisted on wearing the same shirt he wore/slept in yesterday. Fine. Let's get in the car!

We drop my mail off, drive through the drive-thru at McDee's, and head home. I get a message that our neighbor's dog will be alone for most of the day, and would the boys like to visit? Suddenly, genius runs upstairs, puts on shorts (backwards), grabs an old camera that uses *gasp* film - although it was currently empty- and announces he's ready! Bruiser clamps his shoes back on and tries to open the front door. What is it about boys and dogs????

We romp around with the dog for a bit, getting him and the boys tired out, and I snap photos of the "playdate" so my neighbor can see that we did in fact come over. It was pretty fun, even if I am allergic to dogs.

After about an hour, we go home. But now they don't want to go home! There are shouts of the park, some restaurant, ice cream, etc. It's so late by this time, I have no choice but to go home and make dinner. At least we got to be in the sunshine!