Sunday Summary

The first picture of Emma is at Dad's n Donuts at the school. As Ryan described it: "We walked in, got a donut, ate it, and were done in about 1 minute" Apparently, fabulous bonding occurred. The second picture is Emma in ecstasy. For her birthday, my dad got her a gift card to Michaels. She and I went yesterday to cash it in, and she COULD NOT BELIEVE the amount of crafty projects she could buy. After we showed them to Ryan, he said, "Why don't we just dump it on the ground and vacuum it up right now, to save ourselves the trouble." Nice. We have made about 72 bouncy balls and 28 beady, iron-y melty things today. Too bad Gabe didn't have some of them around for his White Elephant sale.

First of all, I apparently do not take enough pictures of Gabe. This one is from a month ago (though he did wear this shirt this week). Second of all, Gabe rips holes in jeans like they are tissue paper. We went on a little date on Friday to pick more out. I'm hoping they last till next Friday. Third of all, he was the VIP in Primary today and brought an x-ray (to signify his MANY bone breakages), a soccer ball (to represent his love of sports. If you could see me right now, you'd see a questioning look in my eyes, but don't tell Gabe) and a flash card (because he's really good at math. That one's for real). I tried to make him show some Uno cards (because Gabe loves games) but he wouldn't because it said on the card to bring 2-3 things and that was number 4. Where did that extreme rule -following come from anyway?

Jane got to accompany dad to work again on Friday. When they are closing down your job, they don't care if you let your 4 year old do it.

Here's my favorite picture of Seth from the week.
I'd made cookies and had left the kitchen. When I came upstairs, he was naked and holding a BIG ball of dough. This illustrates the difference between me and a two year old: about the only time I don't want to be holding a big ball of cookie dough, is when I can easily see the havoc wreaked by too many dips into the batter. Not Seth. That kid needs all the dough he can get.

Also, after months of very bad hair due to (equally?) disastrous hair appointments with Jane and Ryan, we took Seth in for a real haircut. He's now cute again.

Ryan started his part-time job this week. It's called Being the Ward Clerk. But everyone is so super supportive here at home, so don't even worry about me. We did get some time to watch Our Mutual Friend (which you should only watch if you love those slow, British, history movies that never have an attractive person in them. Which we do, so we LOVED it. Really, it was good, if you like Jane Austen-ish stuff). We also had a lovely, relaxing date to Dockside at the Coeur d'Alene Resort, which has ice cream sundaes bigger than your head. Seriously. We love that place.

You want to come with us sometime?