Birthday Bash

MC2 had a birthday.  Four years old.  I hired a young woman from the ward to come do face painting.  She was so awesome.  She was super fast and did such a great job!  She even let the Girl Child wash her's off and get painted all over again.  

 If we're around next year I'm hiring her the Girl's birthday.

 MC2 was nervous about getting his face painted but after MC1 got his arm painted he was excited to get a snake arm too.

 Then he opened a present to help embellish his sad, sad, cake.

 Okay, so I tried to make a Power Ranger helmet.  It was horrible.  I know.  It was hot and the cake started melting so I rushed... and honestly it probably would have been ugly even if I hadn't rushed.

 The toy makes it look so much better though.

 Here he is with his friends.

Summer Fun

With all our crazy weather this summer one day we decided to be bums and stay home.  We ended up making friendship bracelets for friends we love dearly who are moving.  This was the result.  It took us hours and got pretty intense when the baby managed to scoot over to the beads container and dump it out and then try to eat them!  We were screaming, "Don't let the baby eat that!"  "Hurry clean them up!"  It was chaos.  The baby loved it.  

 I went to see a movie with MC2 and came back to find the baby eating Oreos.  I guess Brent has been using them to bribe her into crawling.  This reminds me of a picture of myself as a baby.  My face was covered in Oreos too.

 Its getting hot so if I have to use the oven I do any other baking I need to do and freeze it.  Here is a birthday cake for the boys' birthdays.  I made it camo colors.

 The baby's hair is getting really long so we decided to try a pony tail in it.

 It didn't work awesome, but it was fun to try.

 Today was 90 degrees so we went swimming and then came home to have smoothies.

 We also had a photo shoot for baptism invitations.

 And just one more of this cutie.

Swimming Lesson

We have had crazy weather this summer and weird illnesses too.  MC2 got this rash I thought was a sunburn but it got bigger and spread to different parts of his body.  I called the doctor but they think its a virus.  Its weird.  And he has been grouchy!

 This girl is ten months and still not crawling!  Last Friday she got really close though.  We were having family movie night and MC1 left his plate of chocolate cake too close to her and she went for it.  She actually moved forward!  It was the best she has ever done.  Usually she doesn't try to crawl she just cries about being on her tummy.  She does reach for things while sitting and crawl with her hands, but goes right back to sitting.

 We just finished swimming lessons.  I planned it so MC2 would have a month of swimming before they started and they were over before family came for MC1's baptism.  It was wasted effort.  We had two weeks of cold during swimming lessons which were outside so the first day the water was really cold and MC2 got out before they ended and wouldn't get back in the rest of the two weeks!  One day it was so cold they wouldn't let the kids be in the water for more than ten minutes.  And one day there was thunder so they were cancelled.  On all of those days I couldn't help but visualize money going down the drain.  I'll get over it though.

 It was also during the baby's nap time so that made it stressful.  She did great though.  I'm grateful for such a chill baby.  Did I mention she is in the process of getting FIVE teeth?  Just discovered another one this morning.

 GC1 did great with swimming lessons but she didn't pass her level because she didn't want to put her face in the water while swimming.

 MC2 spent his time doing this... yes, picking his nose.

 The one who did the best is MC1 he was so brave and passed his whole level.  He even jumped off the diving board on the last day.  He's doing so great.  He LOVES the pool and would live there if he could.  Too bad he has siblings who hold him back.

I'm glad swimming lessons are over.  I think the older two would love another session of them, but I'm ready to be done.  Now to prepare for family to come visit.