(kara)Thank you to everyone that helped with that massive project. We are so thankful to have such loving families that chipped in to save us 2,000 dollars by installing it ourselves. I think we all had a good time and it was actually kind of fun to spend Father's Day weekend working on something. I love when we get together as a family.
(Kiley and I)The girls of course were thrown off by all of the commotion and the change in schedules. It's Wednesday and I STILL feel like we are working towards getting back to normal. Kiley and Kara haven't slept well since then. Kara is really playing with her left ear so I'm hoping she doesn't have something with her ears. Kara pulls herself or tries to pull herself up to a standing position now. They learn and grow so fast! Kiley now crawls on her hands and knees (very meticulously) while Kara still opts for the faster left armed army crawl. Why change when it works so well?
Today we went to the pool in my parent's hometown. Abby actually took a nap before hand (even if Kara refused to sleep more than 10 minuets) so we went down to get out of the house a little bit. Oh did they have fun! Kiley LOVED the water and was even trying to crawl in it. Kara wouldn't even sit down, she didn't last long. Abby rode a little yellow plastic ducky thing around in the pool and even went in the big pool with my sister for awhile and down the little yellow slide. My mom helped me with the babies in the pool, it's just a job that is too big for one person and so much water!
After the pool I washed my rather crazy muddy van. Now I haven't done this in awhile and I'm sure you can tell... I rummaged up enough quarters, put them in, turned it to pre-soak... i mean anything with soak has to be pretty powered right? NO. So i walk around the van, turn it to rinse... high powered madness... then I notice the back van windows are still open. So i hurry to shut them and return back to get soap. By then I have less than a minuet remaining so I give up and just soak the darn thing before I leave. It's not spotless but all of the girls were screaming so I called it good. At least it isn't muddy...
And finally I have to document this little story. I have been working on reading more with Abby before she goes to bed and specifically from the Bible. So I took out the Little Girl's Devotional book and start reading about Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. She is just enamored with the story and very concerned that Adam and Eve are crying and sad because God is mad. So I try to explain the story better to her about how they should have listened to God but that God still loved them very much. I get her down to her crib and she looks up at me and says "BE QUIET" Now I know she doesnt mean me but... where did that come from? So she says "BE QUIET SNAKE." Very firmly. She wanted the snake to be quiet because it got Adam and Eve in trouble! How funny. She is so clever and catches onto things so quickly. She wanted to read more stories but I told her we would read more tomorrow night. I'm glad she enjoyed it. The book has more words, less pictures so I wasn't sure she would.
She also loves to play baseball...
My night was a little crazy with Tom not getting home until the girls were already asleep so as Abby says "Sleep tight, don't let the bed bugs bite!" Sweet Dreams
