Rainbow Brite and Starlight

Loose teeth

This little girl has lost 2 teeth this week. I love when the front two teeth are missing I think it's adorable. The first one fell out because she was running around with Seth and ran into his head. The second one was pulled out because it was so loose that it was pointing straight out. She didn't like that very much but she recovered quickly. She really likes that she got a dollar from the Tooth Fairy. She keeps asking me to go to the store with her.

Happy St Patrick's Day

Ada and Lizzie

Kids at play

Anna took pictures for me on my phone. This gem was on there.

St Patrick's Day

On Saturday we got to go to our neighbors St Patrick's Day celebration. She's from Ireland so she made real Irish snacks and had pillows and pictures of Shamrocks all over the place. The kids got to see their Bronley friends, and we got to visit with neighbors. Afterwards we invited people to our house to play board games and eat dinner. I made split pea soup and Jeremy made green cookies.

Low key Sunday evening

Habits

Seth just told me that because everybody's awake it's time to watch a movie. I think it's because he's been watching a lot of movies lately help keep track of him while my foot's not able to chase him. Habits form quickly.  In fact, just yesterday, we spent an hour of our morning watching the 1966 Batman in Spanish on tv.... because he wanted Batman, and that's what we found.  He thought it was awesome and I thought it was hilarious.

Funny kids

We were fasting yesterday.  Sam has never done well without eating.  As a toddler, he was only really grumpy if 1) he ate something he was allergic to or 2) he didn't eat a meal.   Last month he was a rock star and didn't complain once.  This month  was a bit more dramatic.  On the way back from church he kept saying things like, "My legs are so weary." He sounded like a Book of Mormon writer.  Jer and I had to try really hard not to laugh out loud too much.  Once we ate, all was right with the world.  He had a very tender experience though.  Ever since his baptism I've been trying to find opportunities to help him identify when he's feeling the Holy Ghost.  It's been hard because he's such a straight forward, no nonsense, literal child.  Every time I ask him to identify what he's feeling in situations where we've been talking about spiritual things he says things like, "Tired." or "Hungry."  Sunday, our neighbor was talking about how grateful she was to have the love and support of the ward and Heavenly Father while her husband has been doing cancer treatments.  Sam started getting teary eyed and I asked what he was feeling.  We finally were able to show him one of the ways that the Spirit feels like for him.  It's important for all of us to know the influence of the Spirit in our lives.  A lot of times it works in ways that we don't understand.  But I'm extremely grateful for it's guidance.

Evelyn was another kid this week that was super silly.  She's always super funny.... One day, I heard her and Seth playing in the kitchen.  They had pulled out a recipe book and were playing 'restaurant'.  I could hear Evelyn saying, "Isn't that right Seth.... isn't that right Seth...."  Seth would just nod.  Then they pulled out the play dough and they made 'ice cream' for their restaurant.  AND best part.... after all their cuteness, I told them to put it away.... and they did.  Evelyn focuses and works better with music.  Her mp3 player that was given to her two Christmases ago have paid for themselves by now.  She walks around and sings at the top of her lungs.  Her current favorites are Adele's 'Hello', the Beatles and anything by Mindy Gledhill.  She even has figured out how to plug her mp3 player right into my elliptical machine and will workout on it to her music.  Because of me not being able to drive, Jer has been taking Evelyn to and from dance with the help of my sister, Janelle, and mother in law, Judy. One of the days, she put 'Hello' on repeat and sang it at the top of her lungs the whole way home.  Jer said it was so adorable.

Seth likes to sing.  In the middle of dinner yesterday, he said, "Mom watch this, ABCDEFGHIJKDLAFLP."  The kids tried to correct him, but he didn't care.  I don't either.... for a 3 year old that I haven't taught the alphabet to, he did really well.  At church on Sunday, he was sitting on Jer's lap and very seriously joined in singing the sacrament song with gusto. It was adorable because he didn't know any of the words.

Ada's a little upset that she's not included in the youth group going on trek this year.  She's talked to me several times about how fun it would be.  On Sunday, she drew a picture of a handcart being pushed by two people with a little kid on top saying, "Weeeeee!"  I'm not sure that she understands the work that handcarts would take.... but she did get to pull one for a while at the This is the Place State Park.

Yesterday, we got to have my sister and brother for dinner.  That was so fun.  The kids decided to start wrestling.  They started with them laying on the floor biggest to smallest, then the older two were horses and shuttled kids between the couch and Aunt Nella.... then Ada started giving each kid piggy back rides.  She's a good kid and a fun big sister.

Toothless

This girl lost another tooth the other day while we were eating dinner. She had blood on her corn so Jer said that she murdered her corn. Evelyn thought that was hilarious.