The Farm

We joined the play group at Springdale farm.

Jack's highlights were

the piglets,

a real tractor,

and a digger and tractor play area.

Amy's highlight was being grateful that humans were not meant to suckle 5 kids at a time.

Addy's highlight was snuggling mommy in the Bjorn.

I love the mailman

Look what he brought me.

I love my friend, Cheryl, for sending them to me all the way from Sydney. Tim Tams are part of the reason why I gained 10 pounds the summer I lived in Sydney.

DIGGERS!

Diggers in the morning

Diggers at play

Diggers at lunch time

Diggers all day


Jack is the luckiest boy in the world. For the past several weeks he's watched the construction of a new water main on our street. When he wakes in the morning he asks, "Diggers?". So we go to the window to check on where the diggers are working. The past two days the diggers have been right in front of our house. So, he lined up his diggers and dump trucks in the window and plays for hours. He even fell asleep in his highchair while watching them during lunch. He waves to the construction workers who wave back and smile. They have been quite nice to Jack as he watches them work. His exclamations of "Wow, diggers" and "Wow ook at dis" make the men smile. He's learned to use his diggers and dump trucks together and can be found sorting out toys with his digger and loading them into his trucks. I hope the construction goes on for quite some time.

Sleep is a beautiful thing

5 hours of uniterrupted sleep.
Two nights in a row.

Editor's Note: Jack is not a thug

Lest any of you think that Jack is manhandling the other kids in nursery, I am going to clarify. After speaking to his saintly nursery leader, I learned that Jack's over exuberance during bubble time was too much for the understaffed nursery. So, my visions of him pushing the other kids and stealing their lunch money was a bit of an exaggeration in my mind.

Addy's Premiere at Church

Miss Addy wore a pale pink corduroy wrap dress with pink floral lining and ties. Her blouse was white with an embroidered collar. She looked smashing and all the boy babies were checking her out.

I think I will move to Australia

I had a terrible, horrible, no good very bad day. I think I will move to Australia.

It all started when we woke up late for our first day back to church. We made it on time and even had a little time to spare but I arrived stressed. Jack made it through the sacrament and then started to melt. He and I spent the rest of the time wandering the halls and eventually meeting up with the other kids in the primary room to wait out the meeting. Ryan got to hold the sleeping Addy. I missed Sunday School because I was nursing a baby.

And then the fun really began. As some of you know, I was called to serve in the Relief Society Presidency the Sunday before Addy's birth. (Relief Society is the women's organization for our church.) My primary role is to insure that Sunday meetings go as planned with teachers, lessons and music all set up. I was conducting the meeting today and was able to make it through the announcements. The highlight during my making the announcements was that I could not think of the word youth and announced, "The Young People will have a temple trip on Tuesday." I don't know who fits into the category of young people.

After making the announcements I thought we would have to forgo the practice song to make time for the lesson. So I turned to the pianist who I thought was giving the lesson today and asked if she needed more time for her lesson. The startled stare in response was my first clue that something wasn't right (due to a misunderstanding she thought she was teaching next week and I assumed that everything was all set for today. Totally my fault.) So we decided to sing the hymn while I thought of what to do for a lesson. ( I had read the lesson the night before and it was a difficult one on John the Baptist and there was no way that I was going to be able to teach it on the fly)Fortunately my smart friend Sarah suggested that we have a discussion of Conference and let people share their thoughts. BRILLIANT! So that is what we did and it turned out to be good.

Except for the part when I was standing up in front and saw the door open in the back. There was my friend K1 with my son who was supposed to be in nursery. My same friend Sarah jumped up to go see if Jack needed a diaper change. When she came back with the diaper, I knew it was something else. After I finished the lesson and sat down she informed me that Jack had been kicked out of nursery for pushing. Are you kidding me? Yep, I'm the mother of the child who is pushing in nursery.

So that was our first day back at church. I think I will move to Australia.



But really, even on my bestest days I would love to be back in Sydney. So I guess it wasn't that bad after all.