Friday was like any other “normal†day, except we got started so late that the afternoon/evening was pushed even later too! Scott ended up coming home in enough time to take Milo to his sports class. Jaime and Niah went along too. Afton and Alix needed to go to bed, they were both exhausted. After Scott got home and all the kids were snug in their beds, I left and went to Wal Mart to do some shopping. I guess I looked pretty helpless because they closed a check stand so that the guy could load my stuff in the cart and walk me out. I have never seen that at a Wal Mart, but I am getting pretty big I guess….. After getting everything in and put away Scott and I crashed. I guess I didn’t realize how hard it can be to push a loaded cart around. I was pretty sore by the time I laid down.
Today, Saturday May 10 was our stake primary activity. It was super fun. The kids had a great time. Jaime invited 3 different non member friends and they all said they couldn’t come. Alix was able to have a friend come, Milo doesn’t have any non member friends and Niah’s friends said they couldn’t come either. But everyone had a great time anyway. I picked up a little girl from church and we picked up Alix’s friend. So we left the house about 8:45am and made it to the church right at 9:30am. I was asked to help with the garden station and had a great time doing that. The kids planted seeds of friendship in “mud†and “dirt†(chocolate pudding and crushed cookies). They even topped it off with a worm. It was fun but again I didn’t realize how tired it made me till I got home and sat down. On the way home from the party I stopped by and got Jaime’s dance recital tickets. I guess we are all ready for that. She got her costume on Thursday, we got her tickets today and now all she has to do is dance! After we got home I did a little more shopping at the regular grocery store and got to go out to lunch with myself. That was nice and quiet and really appreciated, Thanks Scott!! When I was done with that, Scott went out to do a couple more errands and I took a little nap and did some primary stuff. We bbq’d some carne and polo asada. Not as good as Ramey’s but VERY good indeed. After that we started the bed time routines. Now here I am on Saturday night. The house is super quiet, except for the taping of my fingers on the key board. I am about to finish up my sharing time for tomorrow. Not that I should start any rumors or anything, but my president has expressed concern about me continuing in the my current calling with the baby on the way. She has talked to the bishop too and at our last presidency meeting she told the other councilor they are talking about replacing me very soon. So who knows. Once again a very short life in the primary presidency (last time I was in for 5 months). Anyway, I will miss this calling if this actually comes to pass. I love working with the primary kids and I love working with my current presidency. But I also know that it’s important to focus on my family. So we shall see what happens. It’s all just rumor for now.
Afton is progressing well on her journey in life. She is officially out of 12 month clothes. She is wearing her 18 month clothes. She also graduated to size 4 diapers. Almost 2 years old and she is still our smallest baby. She will be petite I think. She has also decided that 6am is the perfect wake up time. She stands in her crib and either yells a persons name over and over again, or she does this high pitched scream that sounds like we are beating her. Thank goodness for the new windows…
My friend Li-Li from church is in the young women’s presidency. She called me last Sunday and told me they were having a lesson about the priesthood and that all the older girls shot up their hands and told them they already know all about the 3 P’s of the priesthood They said that they remembered the lesson/game I had done with them when I was in the primary presidency 5 years ago. It was a very nice compliment and it has given me a greater determination to do better with my sharing times!
Our garden, once deemed as not so healthy, is doing extremely well. We have plants growing for each of the veggies we planted. We are excited to see which ones will ultimately produce a crop.
This last week, I decided that Niah, Milo and Afton needed some of the “fun†play I used to do with Jaime and Alix. So I gave them paper and paint and let them at it. They had a TON of fun and played for almost an hour while Alix and Jaime and I worked in the house on school. The creations didn’t make it up on any walls, mostly because they got left out over night and blown all over the yard. But I got some pictures and that is what will stay the longest anyway, right?
The other night, after having done Jaime’s scrap book on her baptism, I decided I should finish the one I had started for Milo about his first surgery. So I went searching through “the box†to find the pictures. I found so many fun pictures that I got too distracted. One picture I found looked like a chubby Chinese baby. I had to take a double take to remind myself of who it was. It was Niah. After that a flood of memories came back to me. My two good Chinese friends, Li-Li and Louise, used to joke with me about how I ate too much Chinese food while I was pregnant with Niah. She was a big chubby baby. She had rolls and everything, first of my kids to get thigh and arm rolls. She is far from that now. My little light weight just had an appointment and weighed in at 36 pounds and was 39 ½ inches tall. She is too tall for 3T clothes now, but the 4T clothes won’t stay on her waist! Anyway, fun times looking at those old pictures. About 10pm I found the pictures I was looking for but didn’t do the scrap booking I wanted to do. Maybe another night I’ll get to it!
The kids have been enjoying feeling the baby move. They love to push on my tummy and see if the baby will kick back. Sometimes I have to tell them to be more gentle, but for the most part they are very gentle and very excited to be the owners of a new baby. They continue to talk about how cool it would be to have more children so they can all have a baby to take care of. Kids have no worries, do they?
We are having a stake primary party on Saturday morning. The theme of the party is to learn how to be a good friend. They asked all the primary children to invite a friend to the party. Niah insists that she is going to invite Caitlin (her cousin in Washington). No matter how often we tell her that Caitlin won’t be able to attend, she insists that that is her only friend and that is who she wants to invite. It is just so cute, it makes us all laugh!
Love to you all!!
Maya is in 18 mo- 2T clothes and also just switched to size 4 diapers! How funny!