6/7/16

I was sitting on the couch feeding Henry and Evalyn comes walking in with a maxi pad opened, wings out and trying to stick it on her clothes. I laughed out loud!

Taylor went in to turn off the boys light for them to go to bed, and Gordon was negotiating to get to keep the lights on longer so he could read. Taylor asked him, then who would turn off the lights (since Gordon was on the top bunk)....Russell? Gordon said, "but I would thank him so much"!

Ella "I dont have to cry to be in pain" ( I wrote this down quite awhile ago, I can't remember the story that went along with it unfortunately. I'm sure it was a good one)

We made our weekly trip to Costco and Russ of course had to wear his goggles. Very stylish. 

We went on a walk awhile back and Russell said, "mom did you hear that? There are Star Wars birds!" Sure enough they did make similar "Star Wars" sounds ;)

At the kids school emojis are very popular. McDonald's has been giving away plush emoji key chains. We do not frequent the Golden Arches and when we do we never get happy meals. The kids know this and none of them asked for one even though I know they wanted one. Then one day Gordon came home with one. His friend had given it to him. He was so happy to have one and the girls were so happy for him too. Then a few days later one of Ella's friends gave her one. She was over the moon!! But just ask quickly as she got it, she lost it. It had fallen off her backpack. In tears, she was inconsolable about it. Gordon saw how said she was and said, " Ella you can have my emoji". She didn't like that idea because his emoji had a different face than the one she had. Then Gordon whispered to me, "mom how about we look on the computer and see if we can buy her one, we can use my money to pay for it." He just melted my heart!!! 

Turned out a friend saw her drop her emoji and picked it up for her and gave it back the next day. Then both Gordon and Ella noticed Eden was feeling a little left out.... And we remembered that Eden had a gift card way back from her birthday from s friend to McDonald's. We went and she ordered a happy meal so she could get her own emoji. The sweet thing was when we got home she shared every piece of her happy meal with all of her brothers and sisters. Thoughtful, sweet kids ;)

We were driving to get kids from school the other Day and Russell was looking out the window. He said "look at the clouds there like from super Mario!" He continued, "no, really there's Donkey Kong," pointing out the window. I looked and sure enough I saw an awesome rendition of donkey Kong. Put s smile on my face!!

At Henry's 2 month check up today he was 12lbs 10oz and 24 1/2 inches long. Growing so fast!! He also hands out lots of smiles these days, every one is such a treat!! ;) 

Evalyn affectionately calls Henry...Henra. :)

Evalyn has been a trooper with her cast. She is being really good not to put any weight on it..she has figured out how to scoot around on her bum and drag her leg. Her cast is starting to show some wear on the side where is drags on the floor...it will be interesting to see how it looks in a couple weeks :)

The kids have really gotten into reading this summer. We started a 'bookworm' on the wall. For every book they finish they can add another piece to the bookworms body. We are trying to see how long we can make it by the end of summer.

Eden is such a sweetheart, with this bookworm we are building, she was very concerned that Russell would not get to put any pieces up because he can not read on his own yet. I told her if I read books to him that could count. Eden quickly ran upstairs to find a "short chapter book" and she began reading it to Russell so it would could for one of his books. Melt my heart!