So this happened this week too.... Evelyn, who has had the ability to ride a two wheeled bike but has been too scared to decided that she was no longer scared. She's been going everywhere on her bike and it's adorable. Most of the time when she's out there, so is Seth who is using Evelyn's old bike with training wheels on it. So much fun.
For our YW's activity, we borrowed a golf cart and had a 'driving school' complete with obstacles and parking challenges. It was fun and we had one of our very anxious YW come for the first time because they had wanted to drive the golf cart. They brought their mom with them and I think it went okay.
Brickslopes came to Utah last weekend too. The kids didn't want to go originally, but I wanted them off the computer for a while so we went anyways. They had a blast and wished that we had more time to play. Because it was May 4th, they had a Star Wars theme. not only were there characters, but they had almost every Star Wars lego set ever made on display. That was fun.
Evelyn was the only one brave enough to take a picture with these guys.... so the guy gave her his blaster for the picture.
My sister and brother in law gave me a gift card to Home Depot as a thank you for taking pictures for them... so I picked out and Jer replace the leaking kitchen faucet. I like it and it works well.
Our neighbors are Samoan. We don't know them very well because we always have conflicting schedules, but we've taken them bread before and lent our lawn mower in the past. They were making Samoan pancakes and gave us some too. SOOOOOO good.... like donuts. They're not too hard to make either. If they weren't fried, I'd want to make them all the time.
Ada has decided that her favorite part of salads is the red cabbage, so I bought a whole red cabbage and that was our veggie for dinner. They thought that was pretty funny.
It's been pretty windy, so Seth and Evelyn went to fly their 'kites'. Of course you need to fly kites on bikes.... it's just not the same otherwise.
This is Ada' team. There are supposed to be 9, but only 6-7 come each game. It makes it a challenge for the whole team, but each of them are such good girls. Several of them have been on the same team for a couple of years and several are making plans to sign up again together next year.
Sam had his pinewood derby this week. We forgot about it until the night before, so we decided to make a very easy car. Sam decided on a bathtub. Jer cut it, Sam painted it, and I added the bubbles with a hot glue gun. It didn't win anything, but they gave Sam the Rub a dub dub award. Jer and I laughed about that and Sam had no idea what they were talking about.... which made us laugh even harder.
This week Ada also participated in the highly anticipated Hope of America program. She's been singing the songs and practicing actions for months now. She loved being part of it, Sam said he'd be terrified to sing in front of that many people (then continues to belt out the Star Spangled Banner), Seth and Evelyn said it was too loud but loved dancing and singing in the bleachers. For me it was an all day deal. I had to get her there by 9 am, pick her up at 11 am, then wait in traffic for almost an hour to get her there on time for the actual performance. So instead of driving back and forth all day, I dropped her off and Seth and I went to the Paleontology lab on campus. Seth kept pointing out to me that the bones had to be glued together with plaster and that the petrified trees used to be wood but they were now stone. Cute buddy. And he's never scared of the bones, except for one of the giant elk heads on the wall. Which I think is hilarious, because most dinosaurs would be more dangerous that the prehistoric elk. After that we went to the Bean Museum and looked at animals. Again, he was only scared of the giant fake ants in the play area. We picked up Ada and her friend Taevia, went shopping, they made cookies at our house, went and got Ada and Sam's hair cut, got Evelyn to dance and then headed out to the Marriot Center. Us going to the museum worked in our favor though. When we got there for the performance, there was a baseball game at the same time and there was absolutely no parking anywhere, but I still had my parking pass from the museum, so I parked there. That gave us a shorter walk and I was 'legally' parked though it felt a little weird.
Days like this make me so glad to be a stay at home mom. Trying to work this all out without a parent available would have been really hard.
Just a couple more busy weeks like this and we'll have a heavenly summer schedule. I can't wait.
Here's Ada's performance on YouTube.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoivSur7Ars
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