- Our ward did a little "Neighborhood Walkabout" where everyone goes to one of two houses, eat goodies, talk, and then mosey on over to the other house for more eats and more visiting. I was unmotivated to go, but I had signed up to bring cookies, so we went. It turned out to be a lot of fun! And a good time to visit with our ward. I still feel like we're newbies. We got to talk a lot with the Summers. They were the other family at Kelly's baptism. So that was nice. I really like them a lot. The kids ran around like crazy, probably not keeping the Sabbath day holy, but we all had a good time.
-Monday, the first day of Summer, was a little rough. It's always a little tricky to figure out how things need to go in the morning. I'm always torn between wanting to let the kids relax and veg, but wanting them to still do their jobs and keep their rooms up. It's hard for me for some reason! So anyway, we finally got going around 12:00 and took our "walk to the candy store" that Luke had been planning for 3 days. Ace Hardware has a candy section with really cheap candies that little kids can buy with the change they find laying around the house :) so that's a pretty fun thing to do now. Charity and Brad are still doing the no candy thing so they got to have donuts from Dick's.... fair? probably not, but whatever... Anyway, it was a lot of fun. Brad rode his bike, Kelly rode Luke's scooter the way there, then let him ride it the last half of the way home. Luke walked and held my hand. Charity pushed the stroller with Noah in it and I helped Erika. She walked for quite a while and then got mad that Noah was in the stroller (I would have too!) so I ended up carrying her on my shoulders. It's really a lot closer than I had thought, and if only I'd thought about the rainbow slushy stand that is just a little further, it could have been a REALLY productive walk! jk. We stopped at Tolman Elementary's playground on our way home. It started getting kind of stormy and really windy while we were there, so the 3 boys needing to go poop was kind of a relief.... we were able to go home. We got honked at a few times so we must have some fans out there :). After our walk home, Lukey got invited to Carter's house. That was pretty exciting! He seldom gets invited to his friends' houses. I walked him up there and got to talk to Sarah and Tina on the way.
- Tuesday and Wednesday were both filled with nagging and having friends over. Still no car.... but we're still alive....
- Wednesday night around 7:00 Erika threw up. Always a bummer. She was totally sweet and cuddly all night. Around 11:00 Luke came down and blew chunks all over the place. He was a sweetie all night too. We watched about 20 episodes of Phineas and Ferb. Somewhere in there, I sneaked off to bed. Nate was my hero and took care of all the clean up from all of the vomitting. He's so good at that. It's always really devastating when I have to take care of that stuff on my own. He's so good to me.
- Thursday was a lay around and veg day for sure. I was tired, our two sickies were tired, and everyone else was just taking advantage of the opportunity to skip out on all of the regular responsibilities. We watched a lot of TV and I forced everyone to go play outside about 20 minutes before it started raining, so we came back in and watched some more TV and played some more games. It was actually really a nice day. Luke fell asleep around 1:00 and didn't wake up until around 7:00.... he obviously needed some sleep. Erika was pretty cuddly and needed to be held pretty much every second. Not different from other days except that I felt the need to really hold her. I can't help but wonder if she gets sick so that I will stop everything and just hold her because she really does need that..... hopefully it's not all that..... Thursday night, I started feeling really weak and tired and shaky, then Charity too, and then Kelly came down around 11:00 sobbing about her legs hurting, so we watched Tangled. Hopefully she's not too sick. Might be one of those illnesses where the younger ones handle it one way and the older ones a different. We'll see I guess!
- Friday night, still feeling like crap and wondering what in the world this bug is!!! I haven't thrown up like Luke or Erika, but my energy has been completely sucked out of me!! It's been nuts. And I have this dumb screaming headache that gets worse everytime Erika screams which happens to be quite a bit tonight. Luckily Nate is having mercy on me and took on getting her to sleep tonight so that I could come down to the cool basement and.... well, I was going to lay down, but got stuck sitting here.... so blog I guess. Anyway, I wanted to tell about what the kids did today. Starting with some maracas that Kelly made from some plastic cups, and an oatmeal box drumb, they made a band. They did their band off and on today and then for the last half of the evening worked on a "show" and making tickets and popcorn and all that jazz. So they passed out the tickets and we all went to the show. It was mostly drumbs, but they had put it to music, so it was pretty well thought out. I was impressed. The drumming probably wasn't the best thing for my head, but anything for my kids. It's been a while since they did this (probably because of the busy school year) so it was a fun change. I love to watch the little ones clap for them and get all into it. Noah took it very seriously and held onto his popcorn ticket for dear life. Lukey got upset because he wasn't allowed in the performance room until it started, and so he came late, but he was very respectful during the show and loved sitting on Daddy's lap. Erika danced around. Brad got into it all with the girls and they really made him feel welcome and part of it all. Kelly had even hurt her heel and her tailbone, so she was limping and grunting everytime she would move a way that hurt, but she stuck it out! If you know Kelly you know that had to take some serious dedication to the performance! She was a wonderful announcer! I'm thinking we need to get Charity a drum set! She would be an awesome drummer.
As a side note, before the show started, we were all downstairs waiting, and at one point Erika came walking down the hallway toward the Family room, holding her baby doll and her blanket in her arms, and I realized that she was totally bouncing her baby. And rocking her as she would sway. It was SO cute! THEN she totally started singing to her. Not words I know, but a very sweet little tune. She grabbed the little doll bouncy seat, set her baby in there, smothered her with a blanket, and then turned to me with her finger up to her lips and said, "shhhhhhhh". I just about died!! She looked like such a cute little midget mommy! I love it when kids can grasp something like that, and show that gentlness and love that they hopefully feel from us. Makes me feel like they feel that from us anyway, and that's always very reassuring. Anyway, I thought it was sweet. Had to share it.
- Saturday was a lazy day. We did get out of the house though, finally! We had been needing new chains and swings for our swingset, so we got some chains at Lowe's (and walked around and dreamed about what we will do with our future house.... something I am feeling less and less enthusiastic about as it seems to be farther and farther away....), they were out of swings, so we are still swingless. But we ran to a couple more stores, grabbed some food to barbecue and headed home. Kelly was anxious to get home to play with her friend Jaycie, and it was such a nice day! I thought it was time for haircuts for the boys, so as Nate grilled, I stood there just a few feet away and cut the boys' hairs. Maybe that's gross? Not sure. But anyway, as we were outside, Grandpa Hatch showed up with some things we so carelessly left at his house, and stayed to play with us for a while. It was a lot of fun to have him over. And out of nowhere Steve showed up too!! So we all visited til grandpa thought of an acceptable excuse to leave (apparently his lawn is more important... HA! just kidding!). As we were walking Steve to his car, a little later, the sprinklers all came on and the kids took that as an invitation to get soaked! Even Erika was braving the sprinkles. It was SO cute!! They all have their own style of having fun. It always brings back memories of past years when the sprinklers are on. Lots of good times. Noah was especially cute this time, he came out by us, to put his feet in the gutter, then slipped, fell on his knees on the edge of the curb, rolled around, got back up and then as he ran past me, back to teh sprinklers, I heard him mummbling, "didn't stop. didn't slowdown." Like he was checking off a list. It was really really cute!! And I was REALLY proud of him, he totally could have milked that one, it looked bad! But he was so tough!! Erika fell a few times in the gutter as well, and the one time, Nate ran over and grabbed her up so fast, I think THAT scared her more than the fall, and she got really mad until he put her back down in the water. Kinda funny. Such different little people we have :). The girls had to keep showing me the new wet spot on their clothes, and Brad and Luke were just off doing their thing, I hardly saw them. Noah came back out after going in to get dressed (probably realized he didn't have any jammies out) completely naked! You don't realize how much of a farmer tan your kid has until their out in the middle of your driveway, with nothing but their tanlines on!!! SO CUTE!!! I think every one of our kids has done that too :).... so they're not so different afterall :). Anyway- fun night. Good times.
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