Play-Do

We finally had time to pull out the Play-Do that Grandma Clark made for the kids in February! It was messy, but we got creative. We rolled it out and used cookie cutters, cups and canning lids to make fun shapes. We also sculpted cars, houses and little men. Tanner loved pulling little pieces off one at a time and squishing them back together again.

Discovery Gateway Children's Museum

These pictures are a little old, but I ran across them on my camera and wanted to post them. This is of when we took the kids to Discovery Gateway. We had a blast!

Stay At Home Mom-Day 2

3 pools + 3 sisters + 8 kids = good times

Stay At Home Mom-Day 1

Awesome! I am so grateful for today. I soaked up every little, unimportant moment. I took the kids for a walk and let them take their time to find new discoveries. We came home and drew pictures of what we found. We drew things like ants, butterflies, birds and potato bugs. I got help cleaning the house from my incredible husband and sweet little girl. We even cleaned out the fridge (much needed). I also got some grocery shopping done and now we have food in the house. We had time for family night, another walk, play time in the yard and family scripture study. The best part of it was how happy everyone was, especially Aine. She wasn't wild, uncontrollable Aine today. She was happy, busy Aine. I love this! Please Heavenly Father let everything work out so I can continue to be at home with my kids! I am in heaven right now! Please pray for us.

Last Day

Yesterday was my last official day of work at Priority Dispatch. I've still got a little work that I will be doing from home for them for a little while, but I'm going to be home now. Here we go!

What?!

I just had to post this. Picture this scene with me. I'm coming home from work and pulling into my garage and I can see Aine through our sliding glass door in the kitchen. Spencer is sleeping and I know that she must have just woken up from her nap.

I open the door from the garage into my house and the first thing I see lying in front of me is the Swiffer Mop with the refill box next to it. There is a failed attempt of attaching one of the clothes to the mop right next to it.

The next thing I see is the vacuum, edging it's way into the kitchen from the front room.

Then my eyes see the mess. There are little reds things all over the kitchen floor. It looks like spilled paprika only darker and larger. And I'm thinking, what the? What is that?

Then Aine reappears poking her head in from around the vacuum. This is how the conversation went:

Me: "What is that Aine? What is all over the floor?"
Aine: "I don't know"
Me: "What is that? Did you spill something?"
Aine: "Yes"
Me: "What is it?"
Aine: "It the fish stuff. I can't clean it up."

Beta fish food all over my kitchen floor and my smart little Aine tried to figure out how to clean it up. Sigh.

Then I'm thinking, am I mad because she made a mess? Am I proud that she tried to clean it up? She was smart enough to know the mop and vacuum are used for cleaning up messes.

And then the thought rushes into my mind, how in the heck did she have time to do all of this? Next words out of my mouth are, "Go to bed! You didn't take a nap!" And I'm thinking how did Spencer sleep through this?

Ah! What am I going to do with her?