Bring On The Sand

We went to the beach last week! I was worried about taking all of the kids. I went with my friend Krysta and her two youngest. It turned out so wonderfully. Frank has no issues whatsoever with being covered in sand, and he ate his share of it. Harper loved it, Eden loved it, and the other children loved it. What's not to love?

At one point all of the children were standing where the water meets the sand. You know how sometimes you feel disoriented when the water goes back out to sea and you're not moving? Well Harper was obviously effected by that b/c he walked crooked and slanted and drunk for a good 15 feet and then fell flat on his face. Oh, that was funny :) He stayed away from the waves mostly after that.

It got cold near the end of our time and I had to convince Eden to get out of the water. She really loved it. I think we'll go back again soon.

We've been outside a lot lately. Today was muggy. I'm trying to get back into the habit of walking...I was doing SO well until Sophie got nailed. So now she's doing fine and I'm back to being lazy. Ick. I'll figure it out.

Sprinklers In March

I know some of you guys have snow on the ground, but it's hard for us to believe. It's been practically HOT here. I've been running fans and opening all the windows to try to cool us down. Just the other day we busted out the bathing suits and sprinklers. The kids had a blast! They each had one in our sad, dried out grass covered lawn. The running around, screaming, and jumping were the highlight of my day.

Frank has a tooth on top now, and the other top one is working it's way out. I would love for that process to speed up a bit. He's healthy and happy otherwise though. Lots of laughing and touching things he shouldn't.

My new favorite thing to do is new.familysearch.org. Finally, I have found a place to start family history. It's quite addicting and I'm already excited to log on after the kids are in bed. Thank you Cathy Noel! And this will fulfil a personal progress requirement for the young women project that I'm working on. Woo Hoo! It doesn't get much better than that!

Ghetto Earings and Home School

Eden and I do "home school" together. We were going to do Joy School. In fact, Eden was very excited about me dropping her off by herself for school. Since I feel that I can't handle that right now we compromised. So we've been spending nap time learning new things. Her favorite part is experimenting with colors and anything else she can get her hands on. We put milk in a bowl, then added three drops of food coloring (three colors) and then added one drop of dish soap. The dish soap doesn't mix w/ the milk so it just took the food coloring and swirled it all over. Cool!

Harper can't get enough of Eden. They play together well. She even puts lip gloss and "earings" on him. She has plenty more star stickers where that came from. He's also healing just fine from his surgery and doesn't miss an opportunity to knock himself out. He pretends to write letters along w/ Eden, sings various songs to anyone who will listen, and asks to poop in the toilet right after pooping in his diaper. Alas.



Frank is standing more often and sleeping better through the night. He is starting to show another tooth on top that hasn't popped through yet. And I'm having to dress him in 12 mo. clothes now b/c the others are mostly too short for him. Some of the pants are also too small around the waist. He weighs about 23 lbs. I think. He'll be 9 months old in another week or so.

Brad played w/ the kids a TON yesterday. He smeared Harper's face w/ frosting, taught the kids to play duck duck goose (while adding things like zebra and hippo to the mix). We had a wonderful Sunday! This morning I saw Harper touching his head and saying, "Duck. Duck. Zebra." Good Times!