summer reading

Oh man, I LOVE that my kids love to read. It's so cute and awesome. Yesterday I gave Isabel a surprise book: Black Beauty. She immediately sat down and read the whole thing in about 2.5 hours. Today we went to the library in the morning and got a lot of books, but also some different kinds of books. Isabel read a choose your own adventure book (with all the different possibilities), a magic tree house book, two berenstein bear books, I read a magic tree house book to Isabel and Ansel, now she is finishing up a boxcar children book. Ansel read Go, Dog, Go to me....which is his first long book. I'm so proud of my little readers!!! (Oh, I better not leave out Lincoln. Isabel got a Bob, The Builder book for him and he was thrilled. He "read" his book all by himself three times.)

And we didn't even spend all day reading either. We went to a playground this morning, had a trip to the library and had a rocking my little pony ice cream swim party! (Ansel's leopard came too.)

oh man, I love summer so much!!

oh man...

I just remembered that I have a blog....that I haven't been updating.

It's summer!

I'm so excited that Isabel is out of school! She finished first grade and did a great job. It's so nice to see her teachers on the last day of school and have them all say how much they enjoyed having her in their class. She has been home for only two days so far and she has already been such a big help with the boys and keeping me company. I also LOVE that I don't have to wake up all the kids for that long morning drive.

We are getting so excited for our vacation next week. We are going to the historical city, Nauvoo. We've been learning about it for the past few weeks and are getting real excited to actually be there!

sitting with some boppy pillow help

Here is Titus. Feeling pretty happy to be sitting up and getting attention.

first kid to the ER

Joseph stayed home from church with Ansel who seemed a little sick (and Titus who was not sick). Isabel, Lincoln and I were walking to a pew to sit down and Lincoln fell down just at a great angel to hit his head right on the corner of the bench. He started screaming so I picked him up and took him out. After I got out of the chapel and into the foyer, I looked and realized his head/face was bloody. In the bathroom I got some paper towels to blot it and try to stop the bleeding then I realized it was a HUGE gash. I got it covered and went to find a friend. We went to the kitchen where the first aid kit is and got the bleeding to stop. We had a nurse come in and she confirmed that we better get him stitches. So...off to the Emergency Room I went!

I think we were really lucky to get right in and it didn't take SO long to get taken care of. Lincoln was his usual silly self and made a lot of people laugh. Some of my favorite things that he said were that we had a pet cat, his sister's name was Thomas the tank engine and when the doctor was doing the stitches he said "ouch!" (instead of just crying/screaming).

We are so proud of our brave little boy and hope it's at least another 6 years before we have to go to the ER with one of our kids again.

my biggest x-mas present EVER

I got these photos in the wrong order....but here is when joseph ripped up our carpet and installed a bamboo floor. He worked on it ALL day long, every day during Christmas break. It was our big present to ourselves! I LOVE it!

finally some pictures