It's been a good and busy week like always. Monday we had grocery
swap like usual. Jack's buddy Mallory kept telling me that she could
smell soap. I thought it was because she had washed her hands. Turns
out she had bitten off a piece of bar soap and shoved it up her
nose--Ashley found it later when Mallory started crying that her nose
hurt. Crazy kids! We had a really great FHE that night. Dan taught
the lesson about the plan of salvation. He drew it all out on the
whiteboard and we talked about it and then he erased it and had the kids
each draw it out again. It was a lot of fun to see them understanding
things better and it was great being right after Easter to be able to
testify to them that only because of Jesus and his Atonement and
Resurrection does the plan work.
Jack and Emily on Monday. He likes to snuggle her.
Sleepy girl Monday afternoon.
Emily tried her first bottle with Dan on Monday just before dinner. It was a success! She downed it with no problems.
Tuesday
Candy had joy school. I spent the morning doing laundry and picking up
the house really well to prepare for a cleaning lady to come in the
afternoon (a present from Dad&Sally and Jamie). I put the kids down
for naps and then the cleaning crew arrived. 3 ladies worked for 4 1/2
hours! They cleaned the house from top to bottom and it was the BEST
gift for a busy mom with a new baby. I loved having everything clean
all at once. Since they were working through dinner time, we took the
kids to chick fil a--which the kids thought was awesome.
Emily looked ridiculously adorable on Tuesday. The outfit is pink camo print with tutu and giant bow on the front. Love her.
Wednesday
was rainy. I planned playgroup for the mall playplace, and it was just
me, Candy, Jack, and Emily. A little less fun than when lots of
friends are around, but the kids had a good time anyway. Just as we
were heading to eat lunch, Ashley called and invited us over to play
since they had been busy during playgroup. So we went over to their
house and hung out for a while. Another friend came too and we had fun
chatting and eating lunch together.
Emily practiced her tummy time on Wednesday on the couch.
Megan helping with Emily's 2nd bottle on Wednesday.
Thursday
was joy school for Candy. I spent the morning cleaning out our master
closet. Since the rest of the house was clean and I was caught up on
laundry, I figured I better do some organizing! I took a whole
trunkload to good will. It feels great to have things cleaned out and
neat again (I'm still working through Dan's side of the closet, but it's
a great start). Ali and her kids came for a quick playdate after
school. Megan had soccer that night. Emily and I hung out at the field
while she played.
Candy sure loves her baby
sister. She asks to hold her all the time and is so gentle. This was
after joy school on March 31. Candy changed clothes so she and Emily could wear
their matching pants at the same time. cuties.
Jack loves to hold her too. For 10 seconds at a time.
Friday
was an open day for us. I ran an errand in the morning and I called a
new sister in the ward and invited her over for a lunch playdate. She
has a daughter that's Candy's age and a son just older than Jack and a
baby girl 2 weeks older than Emily. The mom was busy, but the older two
kids came to play. The kids were glad to have friends. Jack was a
little stinker though, he really was rough with the little boy and kept
being mean. He's still adjusting to life with a new baby in the house
and has been spending more time in time out. Hopefully he'll even out
again soon and be nicer to friends! It was date night so we dropped off
the 4 big kids and took Emily with us as we grabbed dinner at Chuy's
and walked around Costco (a new one just opened up near us). We came
home and watched the last Hunger Games movie before we picked up the
other kids.
Emily on Friday...
Happy kids before date night--it was amazing weather all weekend.
Saturday
was full. Dan and his helper Jack put down fertilizer and weed killer
and ant killer. Megan had a soccer game at 11 am so we missed the first
half of that session of conference. She played well and had fun. They
tied 2-2. We dropped her off for a roller skating birthday party and
came home for quiet time. then picked her up at 3 and watched the next
conference session. The kids were pretty wired, so they mostly stayed
in the backyard. Dan and I enjoyed it though. I really liked the talk
that touched on avoiding pride and about how life isn't fair but all
will work out in the end. Then we had dinner and Dan headed to
priesthood session.
It
was a great conference Sabbath today. We had breakfast with the
T fam and then headed down to Dad's. The best part was seeing Baba
and introducing her to Emily (4 weeks old today!). We enjoyed
conference together. The kids stayed and listened more today because I
had printed some Bingo cards for them and other activity pages (Dad
liked bingo too :) ). We had a yummy lunch between sessions and Shad
and his fam arrived then too. We watched the second session with
everyone (wow! I loved Elder Holland's talk. and Elder Oaks. and the
two in morning session that touched on the tree of life). Then we
chatted and the kids played. It was perfect weather outside. Dad hid
confetti eggs for the grandkids to find and they got to smash them on
Grandpa, Uncle Shad, and Uncle Dan. Then the kids went out with Grandpa
for a while to do relay races, balance in different ways, and play
missionary tag. Shad and Dan and I took turns out there too. We all
headed home just before 7. We missed Tyler, but it was fun thinking about
how conference brings latter-day saints all over the world together
this weekend.
Carrie and Emily
Emily, 4 weeks, Baba, 4810 weeks
Jack and Shad looking at pictures of "Unca-shad's-boat".
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