Update Long Overdue

I know it's been way too long since I have made a new post. I always get on everyone for slacking on the updating and here I am super-slacker!

It's been getting cooler here (finally) so I have been busy tyring to organize/deep clean. I have also been trying to potty train Maddi and it isn't going as well as I would like. She is doing pretty good though.

We had conferences last week at school and got really good reports. Laura is a great student (helpful wise) but she having a bit of a hard time with Math and reading. The teacher said she knows Laura can do it but Laura has a problem focusing in class. James is a star student all around and is being tested this week for the gifted program. Kenni is doing great and his teacher just loves him. She did say he has made a new friend, Sami (a girl of course because he's already a ladies man) and they get a little chatty sometimes! Over all we are super happy with our kids' reports!

Every time we have an empty box of any kind, toilet paper roll or paper towel roll our crafty kids fight over who gets it so they can make a project. Most of the time they just end up cutting it up into shreds all over the floor and never really make anything. A couple of weeks ago Little Man had all these pieces of cardboard cut out and said he needed some glue. Each day he would add another piece and let it dry over night. His finish product was an airplane for his army guys. He even put a paper clip in side so his guy could hang on. I was very impressed! After all the glue was dry he and Daddy painted it camo colors of course. He was super proud of his plane!

Happy 80th Birthday Opa!

Today is James' Uncle Boyd's 80th birthday. On Saturday his kids' threw him a surprise party. It turned out really great and everyone seemed to have a real good time.

Silly Kitty

I came home from taking the kids to school Friday morning and I kept hearing this noise. I finally tracked it down and it was Bindi IN the washing machine playing with a nickle that was in there.

Curly Sue

As you can see from my last post Maddi had sponge curlers in her hair. She has an obsession with them lately and has to have them in all the time. She doesn't want them in for her hair to be curly, she just wants to wear them. She sits real still as I put them in and hands me curlers as I need them. She looks so cute with them in too!

Cookies for Kenni

Yesterday morning I went to Kenni's class to help out for a little bit. The teacher just kept telling me that Kenni is her favorite and that he is so funny. Kenni reminds her of her Dad when he was a little boy. She said that she has a ton of stories about Kenni. The funniest one was from last week. She was teaching the kids about our country and showed them a picture and it happened to Barack Obama. She said the kids were all telling her President Obama. Kenni shouted out "Hey! That's Obama and he wants to take our guns sway from me and my Dad!" She said she couldn't help but just laugh. I laughed so hard I had tears in my eyes!

After I was done there and getting ready to go Kenni started to cry. I promised him that if we got homework done on time then we could make some cookies. So that is what Kenni got to do last night. He did all the adding ingredients, mixing and putting the cookies on the sheet to be baked. Laura got to crack the eggs and Maddi was the expert taste tester!

Kenni's Japanese Dance Moves

Yesterday morning we were all getting ready for church and Kenni was supposed to be getting dressed himself. Instead I found him in the living room watching tv and doing some funky dance moves. He stopped when he noticed I was watching him but I got him to do it again on video. The way he is dancing reminds me of Napoleon Dynamite. He kept referring to his moves as the Japanese dance moves. I have no idea why...It is Kenni.

Slippin' and Slidin'

Friday afternoon the neighbors invited us over for dinner. Daddy had to work so the kids and I went. The neighbors have a slip and slide that they made themselves out of a huge tarp and a huge piece of plastic and they got that out. The kids all had a blast and surprising enough (with 9 kids playing on it) there were no injuries! We had dinner and then went back outside to play. Eventually it got dark and the kids decided that instead of playing on the slip and slide they would take the water that didn't drain off and bring it over to their sandbox. They turned it into a huge mud pit. Everyone was covered from head to toe in mud! It was a really big mess but contained pretty much to the sand box and they all had such a great time. I didn't get any pictures of the mud covered kids but I got some as they were playing on the slip and slide. I'm sure you can imagine what they all looked like!