Pictures

Pictures of my kids from a while ago. Michelle took them with her fancy camera. Not sure why I can't keep up with the blog. My house is clean and the garden is growing. So I do have a few things to show for myself. Just nothing of long-term value. Eden is 10 months now, Elizabeth turned 6, Anna is signed up for her first season of soccer, and Andrew is trying to discover new planets.

Anna is 4!

Anna turned four on April 18th. I can't believe it. She was my baby for so long. To celebrate we had a dog party with her friends, went to Build-A-Bear for her present from mom and dad, and finished with her choice of spaghetti for dinner. She had a great day.

Today

Today Elizabeth went to her boyfriend's birthday party. They are great friends. She came home and said, "mom, Noah wants to marry me and that's okay because he doesn't have any children, and he's a boy." I told her that she was much too young to marry and she said that Noah was too young to have kids. I like her thinking.

Elizabeth did 22 pull-ups at gymnastics this morning. I can't even do one. Jeff can struggle out four.

Andrew had a story due today in school and he wrote about Eden's birth. Before he started he said, "Mom, I'm going to go way back to the beginning for my story. I'm going to start with 9 months before Eden was born." Luckily my boy is still 7 and the beginning for him was Eden starting as tiny as a grain of rice.

I made my kids eat catfish and blackberries for dinner tonight to which Andrew said, "Oh good, I like variety just like tarantulas do." The girls and their dad looked at me like I was crazy. You want us to eat what???? Jeff is headed to the store for ice cream.

Can't think of anything funny Anna said today. She had to get her 4 year shots yesterday and she has been dramatic. She got to play with Macy for a whopping 4 hours and go to preschool this morning. She is a tired girl. She was 50th percentile for height and 25th for weight.

Eden had a stick of cheese and a snap pea today, which she loved. She got mad when I took them away. She likes to screech and scream and make cool sounds with her lips. She definitely contributes to the noise level. She is also getting more consistent with her sitting. Her bum doesn't proivde a very stable base. At 6 months she was 13 pounds--9th percentile.

Jeff and I ran the Garden of the Gods 5 miler on Saturday and were extremely wimpy about it. Too hilly for us. We miss the flats of West Kaysville. We are now in the process of dreaming a deck, finishing the fence, planting our HOA required token tree, and teaching our homeschooled son about government.

Love spring...

Bikes

Elizabeth inherited Andrew's old bike and Anna got Elizabeth's old bike. As for Andrew, you can see how he feels about the arrangement in the picture. We need to buy him a bigger bike. But we want something we can pass down to his 3 little sisters. Think he will mind a princess bike? We are hoping to find something red.

Eden

Eden is 6 months old. Wow. She has a tooth almost through the gum and she loves to eat. She eats oatmeal cereal for breakfast and dinner and has tried pears, bananas, peas and sweet potatoes. She loves the oatmeal. Everything else is still up in the air. She knows she hates peas. She still loves to nurse and has given up on the bottle. Hopefully she will change her mind again on that one.