Love Notes

We had a great weekend visiting my family. The boys loved the pool, of course. Marshall was a little unsure about swimming without a floatie, but once I made him do it once, he was swimming around like crazy. Hunter was a bit of a different story. He was wearing a swim vest, water wings, a little doughnut floatie, and his goggles, but wouldn't leave the steps. He was quite adorable, though! I think we got a picture, and I'll post it here if I find it.

Audra was somewhat overwhelmed by all the people (we had 20, I think, including us!), but finally decided her Granddad was pretty ok, and kept falling asleep on him.

Here's a cute story that I'm sure Kip will love me sharing. We were sitting in church, and Marshall was playing with some stickers. So he turned to his Dad, put two heart stickers on his forehead, and said "I love you double, Dad." Kip says "I love you, too, buddy." And here's the cute part: Marshall says "Yeah, I love Mom more, but I love you double." Ok, I guess Kip didn't think it was so terribly cute, but I sure did!

Uh-Oh

Whew! Audra is finally crawling. She's been working on it for a while, and getting very irritated, so it's a relief that we don't have to listen to the frustration any more. Of course, now she can follow Mommy anywhere, and I'm not too sure that's a good thing. Whenever she sees me she cries to be picked up, and I used to be able to put her down in the playroom and sneak out. This could raise my frustration level somewhat.

Marshall has started KinderTrack this week, which will hopefully ease some of that excess energy he's had lately. He's been getting somewhat bored with life around here, I think, and that translates into him talking Mom's ear off. Nonstop. We also started a kindergarten reading curriculum a few weeks ago, and he's just plowing through that. So far he loves doing his "schoolwork", so hopefully we can sustain that enthusiasm as we add more material.

We're getting ready to go visit my family for a few days, our first visit since we moved back from TN. The boys are very excited; we get to stay with Uncle Gary and Auntie Annabell, who have a pool! Hunter has been walking around saying "I going to Uncle Gary and Auntie Annabell's to swim like a fish." (The last couple of days he's been saying "I going to Uncle Gary and Auntie Annabell's to get a new car and a new basketball." Don't know where he got that, but hey, if they want to buy us a new car...)

Comfortable Mess

So, the woman that cleans my house was here Wednesday, so we had straightened up really well. All the toys and little stuff were put away, even in the playroom; it was really very nice. You know, that clean house feel. After she left, Marshall comes to me and says "Ahh. Now the playroom feels comfortable again, Mom." I'm thinking 'Hey, this is great. He's finally starting to realize how good it feels to have the house nice.' Then I walked into the playroom. It was completely torn apart (as is the usual case). Marshall says "I got out some toys, so it feels better now." Great.

As my niece, Lakyn, used to say "Boys these days!"

This song is speaking to me today, so I wanted to share it.