The fun never ends!!

As if this week wasn't busy enough Helaman decided to jump off his bed and landed on the floor on his arm on Monday evening. Tuesday I went to my speech class and then took my biology test and left early so that I could take him to the doctor. The verdict: it's not broken , just sprained. He has to wear a splint for 3 days and then just use it cautiously. Good times! The doc said that it will take up to 2 weeks to fully heal.

I did take my biology test and I think that I did okay on it. The grades aren't posted yet, but I felt like I knew most of the answers. There were 3 fill in ones that I just left blank, so the best I could get would be a 94/100. We shall see.

My speech is written for class tomorrow and tonight I practiced with Faith and Hyrum. Faith thought it was hilarious to pretend that my speech was putting her to sleep. Hyrum was a great kid and totally stuck up for my by saying, "Faith, that is really mean to tell Mom that it is the most boring thing you have ever heard." What a good boy! I'm sure it was reallying boring, especially to them!

That has been our latest adventure. Now let's see what happens tomorrow....

Busy

Today is the beginning of a very busy week. I swap babysitting with a friend so that I can go to school and she can work as a substitute for the school district. Today I am watching 2 of her kids and I am also watching another friends 2 kids. So right now I have 7 kids here under 5 years old. It is crazy and chaos. The girls are sooo dramatic and are all about, "you're not my friend now." Oh my goodness...this is ridiculous. Good thing they are all so cute!!

Tomorrow I have a biology test that I need to study for sometime today! Then on Thursday I have to give a speech which I still have to write and practice. We have baseball practice 4 days this week: Mon, Tues, Wed and Sat. I have a baby shower to go to on Saturday for my sister Traci. We have scouts on Wednesday. Then we have all the normal things that go along with running a household. I am so not complaining....just reporting on all the things going on this week. I am determined to not just get everything done, but do it all to the best of my ability.

I am also going to try to blog at least everyother day. I hope you all enjoy this week!!!

Play Ball

This week was the beginning of baseball season. This year we have 2 teams. Faith and Hyrum are on the Diamondbacks and Vilate and Helaman are on the Cubs. I am a little nervous as we have practice 4 days a week. Last season I was totally spoiled and the practices of those 2 teams overlapped and so did many of their games. Oh well! The kids absolutely love it and it is really fun!! I can't wait for the kids to get their uniforms and start playing the games. I love cheering them on and taking pictures. We have the season opener the last Saturday in March. Apparently our T-Ball team is going to have 14 games and I am assuming that the other team will have that many as well. Looks like we are gearing up for a busy season...but I am soooo glad!!!

Nephi

I was looking through my pictures from the last few months and I just love these ones of Nephi. So, I thought that I would do a post dedicated to this cute little boy.







Nephi loves shoes. One night when Hyrum had gone to bed and forgot his shoes, Nephi found them and loved wearing them around the house!

Nephi gets so tired that he refuses to do anything. It is really frustrating. He just stands around in the living room crying and if you talk to him or even look at him he will yell at you. Eventually he just crashes, usually on the floor or the couch but over the last several weeks he has found a new spot to fall asleep. This is the ottoman to my computer chair.



A couple of weeks ago we broke down and bought a toddler bed for Nephi. At the beginning of last month we had put Nephi down for a nap and a little while later Hyrum went into his room (the boys all share) to get some toy off of his bed. When Hyrum went in he jumped up to the top bunk and found Nephi sleeping there. Apparently Nephi figured out how to climb out of his crib! We have never experienced that before. Our other kids were not quite as adventurous as Nephi has proven to be. Before he climbed out, he had perfected the art of climbing in, so we knew that it was only a matter of time. We bought a toddler bed (2 actually, Gloria's was cheap and had started to bend) from a family with twins off of craigslist.com. Here is Nephi's first adventure in the new bed. He really loves having a big-boy bed like all the other kiddos.

Happy Mom

The end of January every year the kids' school hires an author to come and spend the day there. The kids absolutely love it! Each grade comes up with a presentation for the author and sometimes the kids make a gift for the author. It is a really fun day for the kids and they look forward to it each year. This year Robert D. San Succi came.

Vilate came home from school the day before Author Day and was in tears. Apparently the first graders had each colored a picture based on one of Mr. San Succi's books and then the teachers chose (my least favorite phrase is here) the "best" ones and compiled them into a book for the author. Guess what? Vilate's wasn't chosen, hence the tears. So Faith came up with a brilliant plan! The two of them wrote their own book, using Mr. San Succi's book as a model, and illustrated it.

After they spent hours perfecting it, with Faith writing and Vilate illustrating, it was done! We typed up the story and Faith and Vilate assembled the book. It was so cute! Now, the mission for Faith was to go to school the next day and hopefully get chosen to be in the writer's workshop that was going to be held for a select group of approximately 10 students and give the book to Mr. San Succi. Faith came through for Vilate and was chosen to go to the workshop and she gave the book to Mr. San Succi. He was impressed and read the book right away. Instead of keeping the book he wrote some encouraging words in the front and returned it to Faith to share with Vilate.

It was so great to see these two working together on a project that they came up with. Faith was so helpful and Vilate loved the attention and making something with her big sister. They really made me a happy mom that day!