Summer Notes

Here are some notes I have in my phone about the kids this summer -
5/22 - M was telling me about God - "He's bigger than big. And He's HUGE. He keeps us safe!"
5/30 - During family worship Kate prayed, "Thank you for my monkey pj's!" Her favorite song that she wants to sing every. single. night is Holy, Holy, Holy (she says Hoey, Hoey, Hoey :-)
6/28 - I was packing lunches for the pool & M very seriously said, "Is there anything else you need from the pantry? How about a rice rusk for David?"
7/1 - We swam several days in a row & M told me, "Maybe tomorrow we can take a break from the pool." (Ha! You know you've been swimming too much if a 5 year old wants a break!)
7/24 - David took his first step!
7/25 - David loves putting things in containers & then pouring them out / starting over. Kate always calls David "Little Man" (Wittle Man). Kate is currently wearing princess pjs, a pink baseball cap, fairy wings & twirling around saying, "Mommy, look what I can do! I'm a princess Mommy! I'm a princess!"
7/26 - We had Baby Signing Time on for David to watch. It got to the diaper dance part & M said, "Diaper Dance?! Now this is Weird!"
8/16 - Kate said, "Oh! It's my pretty princess purse!!" - Really starting to show an interest in princesses. She took the movie, Snow White, out of our DVD drawer & pointed to Snow White, "Ohhh, I like her! She is SO pretty."

The Last Week of Summer

Lots of sleep for this little man the last few days - He had his 15 month vaccines on Thursday

 Kate loves to color and play with the markers :-)

 Playing dress up has been a favorite lately.

 Michael had fun helping me make a cookie cake for our neighborhood back to school bash - and he really enjoyed taste testing the dough :-)

 David is still doing his tricks

 Kate put Minnie down for a nap :-)

The Library

While Mom was visiting we had a fun morning at the Edmond Library - 

Spaghetti!!

Family Photos - July2012

Our longtime friend, Jon Norris, took our family photos a few weeks ago.  It was a HOT summer morning, but the park was beautiful & all 3 kids were very cooperative (maybe because we promised ice cream :-) I would have loved if David had been more smiley, but he was very subdued for some reason. These are just a few of my favorites - 

 

Whirlwind

The month of July was a complete whirlwind -- A week & a half in Texas, friends visiting, Dr appts - found out I needed to have a hysterectomy. And now here we are in August & I'm on day 5 of recovery. On Tuesday I had surgery & got to come home on Wednesday. When I walked into our bedroom I couldn't believe what our Life Group had done - they had turned our room into a beach wonderland - so thoughtful! It's made resting in here much more fun.

The kids have been in Texas all week - thankful that their BB & Papa were willing to take care of them for us while I had surgery & recovered. We are missing them!! I can't believe we're less than 2 weeks away from Michael starting Kindergarten, Kate starting Preschool & just getting back into the whole school routine. Summer has flown by! 

More July Fun

Candice & her girls came to visit the last week of July. They arrived on Monday afternoon. We had fun swimming & after we got the kids to bed we left Andy "on duty" & we went to Mama Rosa's on Lake Hefner - it was very yummy & we enjoyed sitting on the patio & having lots of great girl talk. We stayed up late talking & then around 2am I woke up with my stomach churning. I really hoped it wasn't food poisoning. Tuesday morning I woke up feeling awful & so did Andy. Luckily, Candice felt fine, so we knew it wasn't food poisoning, but some kind of 24 hour bug. True friendship right here folks - Candice took care of all 5 kids (ages 5, 5, 3, 2 & 14 months!) by herself for most of the day while I layed on the couch completely useless. At one point I even fell asleep on the floor while all the kids were playing around me. By evening I was starting to feel better. We took the kids swimming again. Then we had to watch When Harry Met Sally, for tradition :-) We also had fun acting like teenagers & making homeade pore cleaning strips from a recipe we found on pinterest! Even though the trip didn't go exactly as planned, we had a great time. So thankful for my sweet friend of 28 years :-)