We are really enjoying our summer around here. Emily came to visit with her girls for a few days. Brian was in Louisiana for work, so we stayed busy playing outside, swimming at least twice a day, riding bikes to the park, eating Em's homemade desserts and just having a TON of fun! The kids got along great...Gwyn was in heaven playing with Grace who is a year older:
They brought Jacob down a birthday present...a game called Headbanz, it was quite entertaining! You try to guess the thing/food/toy/animal that is on your headband by asking questions...this proved hard with Annie who regularly either gave you the totally wrong answers or just blurted out what your card was:
Precious little Sadie who is 6 days younger than Annie swims all over the place, rides bikes, and is potty trained! I tried to put some pressure on Annie, but she just said, "I wear diapers!"
Jacob lounging in the pool "fake sleeping." He did really well with all the girls in the house, I told him at one point that "I know there are 4 girls here and just you," to which he quickly corrected me that there were 6 girls here (counting me and Em). He was outnumbered and had some guy time when Daddy came home Thursday night and Jason came to eat dinner and see Em.
Oh the many faces of Annie...I've got to get a good picture of her scowl...almost as distinct as Eddie Suttons!
My littlest can pedal!! Check out those little curly pig tails...her first haircut will be coming up soon and those curls will forever be gone:(
This little boy is serious about baseball and OSU. He made a list of things he wants for his birthday, and one thing he listed was an OSU flag that we can put outside our house...he saw another one on his bike ride with Brian.
Oh so many poor rollie pollies...the girls loved catching them and unfortunately many ended up in the pool water:(
My friend Julie gave Gwyn a pink leapster and a ton of new games...Gwyn was hooked with all the "girl" games since she is used to playing with Jacob's that has only "boy" games. She was super excited!
Poor little Annie, who gets only hand me downs and cast offs from Gwyn, was so excited that Gwyn gave her the "struction" manual for one of the games (Not the game, but the instruction manual that came with it!). She just "pretended" to read it all weekend, carried it around like it was something special.
At church today, all the 1st graders and their parents went up on stage and the parents presented Bibles to the kids. Brian picked this Bible out for Jacob, we had his name printed on it, and he was super excited. He carried it around all day, and is determined to read it front to back. He talked both Brian and I numerous times throughout the day to read him about 7 chapters of Genesis. After he was done swimming, he went and got his Bible again while Gwyn was swinging on the swings. He said, Gwyn, aren't you going to come read the Bible...it is more important than swinging! LOVE THIS KID!
Gwyn in her goggles has got to be one of the cutest sites I've ever seen. She completed quite the feat tonight as she swam the entire length of the pool. She said she couldn't do it before she tried and then she did it!!
Another picture of Jacob having fun, before he requested a "fake sleeping" pose.
We have had several swim playdates at our house over the past week and a half. One day we had 3 moms and 10 kids (we decided that was the limit!), another day we had 3 moms and 8 kids, and then with Em here we had 2 moms and 5 kids in the pool.
After Emily left, Brian and I took the kids to see Brave. It has got to be the absolute worst movie for kids...it was way too scary, they pretty much couldn't have made a scarier looking bear as the villian in the movie. Jacob loved it, Gwyn hid her face in Brian and said she didn't like the mean parts, and Annie pretty much just sat in her seat and repeated word for word the entire movie (she does this when we read books too). She repeated in a perfect Scottish accent, "Stitch it up, mend the bond" to which we've been repeating like crazy people all weekend around here!
Funny things the kids said this week:
Annie: Sissy gave me the hiccups.
Annie: Sissy said I'm not being nice.
Me: Are you being nice?
Annie: No.
Gwyn: Daddy, I love you more than a dog.
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