Super

Super Mom I am not. But I do my best to keep the kids entertained.

They play in the house that fits over the dining room table--Squirt loves it!
Wearing big sister's jammies just for fun--thanks Dad!

Turning Thumbelina loose with the camera at the boy's Tball game---sorry random people.

Playing with a crayon sharpener...sound effects and tons of drool complimentary.

And my favorite...entertaining oneself. Look Mom! 2 feet, one slipper. Awesome!

Impaired Conversations

Hubby took the boy to see the new Karate Kid movie tonight with his Karate school. They got home, we read scriptures and sent the kids to bed in the playroom. I was asking hubby who all was at the movie. Then I asked him about one of the instructors who is also in our ward.

I said, "Do you know who he is yet?"
Hubby: Yeah--well I don't know his name but I know who he is.
Me: What does he look like?
Hubby: (no answer--hubby has fallen asleep)
Me: Honey. What does he look like?
Hubby: Like a bunch of trees and an apartment complex with scenery.

**Pause**

The best part of these conversations are when he realizes that he has said something that makes absolutely no sense. So I just wait for it.

Swim Lessons

The girls have been doing swim lessons.

Munchkin was in a class of 5 with 2 teachers. She didn't pass. She is still afraid to put her face in the water and terrified of the deep end. So she will be repeating it come Monday.

Thumbelina started in a class of 4, which dwindled to 2. But this whole week she has been the only one in class. She passed with flying colors. So she is taking this next session off while ET does the class she just finished. Then, next session, they will be in the same class.

Hopefully Munchkin can get over her fears.

What Would Summer Be Without Water?

This is such a Munchkin look. Someone took her turn.
The boy is fearless. He even managed a couple times standing up.

Thumbelina did great too. The first few times of the summer, she always gingerly walks down it a few times before she gets the hang of it.

Munchkin didn't get very many turns with so many other bigger kids but she totally went for it.

My sister bought the kids a Slip N Slide for Christmas a few years ago and it was great. (What a cruel joke giving a summer toy in December--I had to hide it for a few months.) But last summer, it got ripped up by our totally even and level yard, and no where to safely store it. So YAY for Memorial Day sales! And the kids love it. We have water every day--alternating between the sprinkler and slip n slide with one pool day a week. Hopefully, once the kids know how to not die in the real pool, we can go there instead!

Stuck

You know how sometimes when you're in the car and a song comes on but you get to wherever you are going before it ends and that song is stuck in your head ALL DAY LONG?

Well, it happens to kids too.

This is why they are outside playing.

Summer Week One

Girls Night...In. Hubby took the boy camping so we had a toe-nail-painting-Tinkerbell-watching-party wherein we all slept in the playroom---even Squirt!
My girls have such squishy toes that I had to hold them apart while they dried.

But now we all have hot pink sparkly toes

Thumbelina requested Cinderella hair for church to go with her cinderella dress. And dangly earrings to match.

Munchkin got a new food set for her playhouse, complete with oven mitt. Then I found her play oven mitt in the drawer in the kitchen.

Squirt is recruiting for a new rocker gang...must have rocker, willing to ride.

And sleeping it off after church.

I caught her wiping the wall with a dryer sheet. We teach 'em young here!

Swim lessons commenced. New goggles required.

Moving on up in Karate. Now he's a green belt, which I think means he gets to help teach other classes. He is learning a lot and is so focused in class.

All in all not a bad week. I just need to be better about getting chores done in the morning when we don't do anything anyway.

Summer

So far, this is my summer: trying to keep 4 kids happy in a kiddie pool.