More Randomness

Kate was sitting at my parents' kitchen table eating cereal and watching tv when one of her siblings got in her way. She grumpily told the sibling (I think it was Emily, but I'm not positive) to get out of her way and then when her view of the tv was clear again she politely said, "gracias".

When Kate left her nursery class today after church she was grumpy and said, "I DON'T LIKE THAT ROOM!" Kate's regular nursery teacher hasn't been here for a few weeks and I think Kate is feeling the affects of that.

Rain, rain, rain. We did see the sun on Thursday, which made for a perfect pool day, which we enjoyed. Aly stayed over Wednesday night and came to the pool with us on Thursday. My kids are having a great time with Aly and Philip when they see them.

We stayed home on Friday and I was able to get caught up on laundry. We enjoyed some sunshine Friday afternoon, so we had a picnic on our lawn and the kids ran through the sprinkler for awhile. Friday evening, Zoe, Emily, and Eleanor went to spend the night at my parents' house. Matt and I watched "Bride Wars" after we put the younger kids to bed. Noah is sleeping through the night :-), but he still cries himself to sleep.

Matt and Zach had some dart gun fun Friday night after the girls left.


This next picture is a great one because Noah is underneath Matt with one dart in his mouth, a dart in his hand, and he's going for another dart. So much for keeping the darts away from Noah.


We picked Zoe, Emily, and Eleanor up yesterday morning to enjoy some festivities at the Orland River Days. We watched the parade and the kids scored lots of candy, the kids got their faces painted

Here are some close-ups (Aly is in the background)

When Kate sat down to get her face painted, the lady painting faces thought for sure that Kate would be wiggly, but Kate sat the most still out of all of our children!



the kids also jumped in the bounce house. All of the activities were free. :-) Kate didn't like the bounce house, but as the lady at the bounce house said, I probably won't be able to get Kate out of it next year.

We left Orland River Days early, so I could bring Eleanor to her friend, Abby's birthday party. Eleanor had a great time swimming (she didn't last long in the pool because it wasn't very warm out), jumping in another bounce house, eating, hitting a pinata, playing with friends, and playing on the swingset. A big highlight for Eleanor was getting a tour of Abby's house!

Eleanor and her friend, Alyssa

Abby, Hailey, and Eleanor (I could not get a good picture of these 3 girls!)

Noah played with all the different balls and tried to get his hands on all the food left behind on the little tables.


Zoe was putting sunglasses on Noah the other night and taking pictures. He liked the glasses at first, but by the time Zoe took pictures, he had had enough.