These Days...

Well, life has been moving right along here without too much eventfulness. I'm at 29 wks now and getting purty big. Down to Drs. appt. every 2 weeks which makes it seem close to the end, although when i think of everything we have going on between now and then it seems far away. :) I was going to post a pic of me in the new dress i sewed but have yet to actually get a picture taken. I'll have to see how talented Miss Kate is with the camera, but for now no ME pics. :)

We also got the garden in FINALLY so we'll see if it survives the kids. the seeds have been walked over a few times but not dug up yet. So far 2 of my planter boxes with the herbs in them have been "accidentally" dumped. Kate has a habit of roaring around the deck on her trike and apparently miscalculated where her back wheel was. :D

So far the kids have managed to drowned both of the flower pots I planted on the back deck with their extensive watering treatments. So no flowers in them this year i guess. They have also filled the toilet with rocks twice this week, ate a handful of my tums ( at least once, maybe more than once) that I keep in the bedroom for my heartburn , (they love them) used a very generous coating of cortizone cream on Elliotts face and squirted the rest of the tube out in the sink, and got in the fireplace and played in the ashes. thankfully none got on the carpet. Oh yeah, and Tay-O got in the fridge and found himself an egg to play with. He cracked it on the hearth and then came to me to ask me to help him wash his hands and offered me the empty shell. Only a minimal amount got on the carpet that time. So now you know how I get my sewing done. :)

On the other hand, the kids had been playing in the basement for a while the other day and I was busy cleaning up the house...when Kate came upstairs she happily proclaimed, "Wow, it looks all nice and really clean up here ! Thank you mommy!" she often surprises me with her appreciation for things when I'm not expecting it.

And when inviting Elliott to be in her sunday school class just after he got up from his nap and was sitting in the rocker with all of his blankeys: She bent over him sweetly and cooed, "You can come sit in my sunday school class OK. I know your tired Elliott, but you can bring your blankeys, you can even lay down and sleep in my class". (apparently she was getting a little desperate.

At this moment she is telling him a mixed version of Jonah and Curious George in the said sunday school class.

Seems these days Miss Kate is either sweet as sugar or distressingly naughty...and either chatty as i'll get out in a very jolly way, or impossibly hard to get a word out of. So many times this line of that little rhyme has been running through my head lately...When she was GOOD she was VERY, VERY, GOOD....but when she BAD she was HORRID! :D

We do love our Kate dearly through all the ups and downs. :)

A couple weeks ago we went to watch the AG Parade at the Spring Fest ( i guess thats what it was). We dined on fair food and Miss Kate got to ride a pony for the first time. She loved it! ...but was most impressed by the horse that went potty while waiting for the riders to dismount. :D We have a little video of her riding and she was quite disappointed that it didn't have the horse going potty. Gotta love 3 yr olds! :D

Of course the camera battery died during the video so we have no pics of the parade to share. But the kids happily waved their little mitsies off to all the waving parade folks. We were not aware that they would come home with a load of candy from it as many of the floats had people walking along beside throwing candy to the kids on the sidelines. The kids were quite excited and have been slowly working down their sugar stash over the past weeks. The parade started with a bunch of snazzy motorcycles that the kids found facinating as the went by just a few feet away from us. Apparently they made quite an impression as Kate had a dream a few nights later ....something about all of us in the back yard and a motorcycle pulling a big boat came crashing through the fence and was going to "trip over" Elliott! But mommy and Kate were ok and we weren't gonna be tripped over so we were happy ...but Daddy ran so fast and got Elliott and the motorcycle didn't trip over him after all so we were all happy ...and Daddy kissed him...and we were all happy...

or something like that. :)

Kate has been having interesting dreams lately that she remembers and talks about, and occasionally I hear her hollering stuff in her sleep. The other night it was "Elliott, NO, you stop that" and "But I CAN'T catch them...its too hard!".

These are the new jammies I sewed her that she absolutely loves! They turned out well and were relatively easy so I am making a couple more pairs. they're a very soft cotton. I also made (well, its verry close to being done) myself a nighty out of some of that super soft lightweight cotton that is so comfy and i also happen to love the colors of it (a lovely coral color trimmed with a light aqua)

Oh and I sewed her a new blankey too, of which she's very pleased.

We participated in a book chain awhile back of which I had forgotten about, but we got our first book in the mail a couple days ago. The kids were SOO excited and love the book!!! I think its mostly just the fact that it was a fun surprise in the mail, but they do happen to like tigger and pooh also.

Today I was inspired to post because the kids were entertaining me with their playing mtg. skills. Mostly consists of Kate singing loudly and Elliott jumping around from here to there as he would love to do in real mtg. and Kate gives him permission to do so suggesting he sit by cousin LaLa or U. Nathan and A. Vi.

Tay-O diligently wears a headcovering just like his sister...

and he occasionally helps out with the singing.

The part that I found very amusing falls in the middle of the second video. Tay-O comes around with a toy phone which Kate interupts the mtg. to insist that she needs and must make a call. She then goes into her cardboard house, first instructing Tay-O to sit on his chair, and makes a phone call to Brother Bill Prost. He has been visiting our area this week and she was impressed by his singing ability. Anyway, her phone conversation goes something like this:

Hi, Bill Pwost.

Are you coming?

OK. I was just wondering.

I.....I....was singing...are you gonna come?

Oh, OK....and sing?

Do you have your hymnbook?

OK

Bye Bye , ....starts to say Aunt susie as that is who she usually "calls", but quickly finishes with, Bill Pwost.

Ends phone call and comes out to report to Elliott, "that was Bill Pwost".

She has since made more than a few "calls" to him.

In the first video she belts out a slow and slightly draggy rendition of the ABC song during her sunday school. :)