Creative Writing!

Lovey wrote a thank you note for her prize money from the violin concert. They provided a sample of how to write a thank you but she didn't want anything to do with that! I think this has way more flare and personality than the canned version they gave her LOL

and while we're on the topic of writing, check out some other little samples! Since they all like/dislike different things, I get them to make a list of what they want in their lunch box each night before bed. Lovey dressed hers up a little tonight! I especially like the part that says "wow, that took awhile!" which I assume she jotted in there after all the decor was complete!

 Murray mentioned recently that he might go up to the Oldtimers League next year and the girls are all horrified and against this move. I think they believe it's all senior citizens with canes and walkers and stuff!!!

Sunday Slam

The weekend craziness continued into Sunday! Luckily I was able to sleep a little longer in the morning but was still pretty tired out from being up in the night with Lovey. With no showers to do other than my own, we were ready at a decent time and picked up Tulip and we were off!

It was our minister's last day so it was a special service, with lots of special presentations. The choir did a rollicking good hymn, the kids sang to him, Lovey played a violin piece for him and here was a reception after church. The kids sang again at the reception and also gave him a matted sketch of the church that they'd all signed. The organizers had asked if "the triplets" would present his wife with a bouquet of flowers. I wasn't sure if the kids would be in to that or not want to do the triplet thing. They loved it! They dug out matching dresses, argued over how to all do their hair the same way and made sure they were in full triplet mode!

Something he'd mentioned during his time with us a few times was that he really missed seeing ladies wear hats to church. Word was sent around earlier in the week to find some headgear for Sunday and many people complied! I loved my hat and wish I had one for every week! so much fun!

It was sad to say goodbye to Peter and the kids don't think he should leave at all! He will be missed by everyone but he did mention that we'd see him again in the fall so hopefully he'll be popping in! Our new minister starts in July so we're looking forward to meeting her and getting some new things going with the young families for 2012-2013!

Busy Saturday Too!

Saturday started off with Lovey heading out to a violin rehearsal for 8:45. Then I got the other 2 up & ready & we headed to the gym to meet Murray for the hand off! I went to class & he took all 3 to the mall to pick up a bday present for the party that afternoon. After my class, I had a practice reading at church at 11 so I went to that and came home and rounded everybody up to go to the multiples BBQ to celebrate National Multiple Births Awareness Day. We had to leave early to get home in time for the bday party next door though. While the girls were at the party I went to pick up something to watch for movie night and also to search for a hat for the service on Sunday (more on that later).

By the time I got home the party was almost over and no one was very hungry for supper, having had their fill of hot dogs, cake & chips alllll day. I picked "The Greening of Whitney Brown" and they loved that! But you can't really go wrong with  "a girl and her horse" stories!

Another busy but fun day that came back to haunt us in the middle of the night when Lovey was standing by my bed saying she felt funny. As soon as I smelled the acidic breath, I leaped out of bed and propelled her sleepy little feet straight to the bathroom and got there in the nick of time! She was only back in bed for a few seconds when I heard her rolling back and forth, moaning and trying to get comfortable. I was pretty sure that wasn't going to happen and decided there was no point in going back to bed myself at that point. After a few minutes of that, I brought her back to the bathroom. Yep. Round 2 was on. Once that was over she felt much better and was able to get back to sleep. I was glad I'd decided to do all their showers before the movie and didn't have to get up early to do that!

Weekend Blur

The weekend kicked off into another whirlwind of activity and now we're back to Monday and I can't even say for sure that we had a weekend!

I picked the girls up from school and we ran to Costco to pick up food for the evening's activities and delivered it to its destination. Then we raced off to attend my cousin Liz's open house for her new daycare. She has a fabulous new, bright, spacious and clean facility. Liz is running a top notch place! For the open house she had some snacks and face painting!!! Lovey was right in there first thing and then Honey decided to check out the designs. Sweetie had a peek but didn't see anything she liked so wasn't going to bother. The face painter had no other people to work on so I tried to convince Sweetie to get something done. Finally she thought that if she could have a little bunny on her cheek, THAT would be worth doing. All the designs were super cute but Honey's was the only one that had action. If she scrunched her nose, she could make the penguin dance so that was pretty cool!

After Sweetie was done, there still wasn't anyone around so the girl asked me if I wanted one. I jumped in the seat so fast, your head would spin! I thought she'd just do a couple swirls around my eye but she had a lot of paint and time on her hands and I got a mega cool design. I hated to peel my gems off and wash it away at bedtime.

Once we'd had our visit, we went to pick up Murray & Tulip for movie night at the church. We cooked pizzas, had snacks and some ice cream and chocolate sauce for dessert. Yummmy! Julie & I thought it would be fun to have a family even since we haven't had one in so long. It was all very last minute, we just brought it up at Sunday School last week and didn't think many would be able to make it. With that little notice, we had 26 people come! We couldn't believe it! Definitely something to repeat in the fall!

annnnnnnnnnnnn that's how Friday went!

Youth Group Wrap Up

Last night was the last night of youth group for this year. Their leader made a special award for each of the kids and the girls were all very pleased with theirs. Through the year there had been a challenge for them to memorize the books of the bible. All of them. BOTH testaments! We had the page on the front of the fridge forever. They all started off trying to do it but Lovey was the only one who persisted and worked on it. She used the books for her spelling words and practiced them every night to get the first half of the Old Testament down. Then she just started practicing saying them over and over and earlier this week she only had the New Testament left and was getting nervous. She buckled down, took the list on the bus to review on the way to school and back. She got her seat mate to quiz her and finally she got them all memorized! There were only 3 kids who succeeded in the challenge and she was the youngest.

She was so pleased with her candy filled trophy! You can see her run through them in the video at the bottom. :)))

Lovely Long Weekend!

We had a fabulous long weekend! Thank you Victoria!!! We bbq'd hamburgers on Friday night, yummm! and had the big adventure in the park. Then on Saturday there was more gorgeous weather so we took our bikes and went down to the trails and biked along the river, stopped along the way and practiced skipping rocks. The girls are fascinated and frustrated by this. Lovey was the first one to get a couple of skips and that just discouraged Honey immediately. She did keep trying though and eventually got a couple herself so hooray! Lovey managed to get 3 skips one time and was pretty excited about that!

Lovey was poking along, falling waaaaaaaaaaaay behind so I kept up with the speedy ones on my bike and Murray ran with her. When we stopped for a water break, they all wanted to know if we could get a popsicle when we got back to the start. Since it had taken so long, we said there wouldn't be time if it took as long to return as it did for the first half. Suddenly Lovey takes the lead and kicks butt all the way back to the van. Obviously "c'mon, let's go! wanna catch up? they're getting way ahead!!! hurry up!" mean nothing to her, but man oh man, dangle that popsicle/carrot and she's a rockstar biker!!!

Unfortunately the ice cream stand wasn't open for the season yet so all that effort didn't pan out in the end.  What a rip off! I compensated by telling them they could have a popsicle at home and a run through the sprinkler and saved the day though!

Saturday night was movie night and we watched Tin Tin but I missed the end. I'd offered to help out a family in our multiples club who had triplet boys recently. They also have a 7 yr old and an 18mth old and her husband had a fundraiser/relay race to attend in the  middle of the night & so she was going to try and do the night shift alone. What a time warp! I got there as they were finishing up the evening feed at nine. Her older son heard my car from  his room and ran out to his parents "hey mom! your friend who makes the cookies? I think she's here!!!!"  I'd gone for a visit earlier and brought some smartie cookies which apparently stood out in his memory! LOL

All the babies were down and we went to bed around 11. They were allllll back again at 12:45 but they were much better than I remember our babies being! I was back in bed myself from that feed at 2am. I don't remember ever being able to get all 3 up, changed, fed, burped & back asleep in an hour and 15 minutes! I think they were back up again a little after 4 and that one took a little longer. The mom went back to bed and I finished up with the last baby but he wasn't settling well so it was 6:30 or so before he was back in bed and I crawled into my sleeping bag. The older kids usually wake up around 7 but I didn't hear much for awhile. It sounded like her 18mth old was having a tantrum (and has been doing this for attention a lot lately, go figure!) so I sortof tuned that out until her son came and knocked on my door to say that his mom needed my help with the babies. I went up and it turns out that the screaming fit was not from the toddler but the infant! Ooops! neglecting my duties! I'd only been asleep for about an hour so I blame my foggy brain on that! We got them sorted out and had some breakfast & I showered and headed off for church. I was fairly tired the next day but one night wasn't too bad especially when I knew I'd be able to nap or go to bed early the next night. I remember when Aunt Cathy used to do this for us once a week. I don't know how she went in and worked a full day after that!! and she came back week after week!!! I did take it fairly easy Sunday afternoon and had a nap in the car on the way to M&D's for dinner. 

After supper we went for a walk down to the stream by their place and it was pretty strong from all the rain last week. The girls brought their rubber boots so their feet wouldn't get wet. It worked pretty well until they started swimming! We had to watch them pretty closely once they got too comfortable in the water. The current was moving along quickly and could pull them away if we didn't have a hold of their shirt. It's very shallow and most places they could stand up but there are so many rocks that they could knock themselves out. Once they were good and soaked we headed back up to the sunny field for them to dry off and run around. What a great evening and who doesn't love going for an impromptu swim in their clothes and boots in May??? I didn't have my camera but I wouldn't have had any free hands to shoot with anyway!

Monday was another great day so we took the canoe out and paddled to a beach where this time there was swimming on purpose! It was a bit chilly for me so I didn't go all the way in but everyone else was feeling adventurous. It was time to head home for supper but no one wanted to leave. Next time we'll have to pack a lunch! Anybody have a canoe and want to tag along???

It was a great weekend with lots of fun in the sun and family togetherness, life is good and we are sooooo blessed!!!

 

Yay for summery warm weather in May!

The Next Installment!

There's nothing Honey hates worse than getting the end of a good book, only to find out it's the first in a series and be left hanging "at a realllllly GOOD part!!!!" I reserved the next books in the 2 series she inadvertently got hooked on and they were available for pick up (great service, check it out online if you haven't tried this yet!). The last one came in on Friday and she wanted to go straight down there and get it right away! Since we were going downtown on Sat anyway and it was close to closing on Friday when I got the notice, I had to torture the poor thing with a day's wait.

She was so excited to check the books out on the self serve terminal and happily posed with her haul afterwards! "I spread the books out so you'd be able to see them all in the picture Mum!" Atta girl Honey!!!