A blog about Kyle and Rebecca's family
Lydia must have sung The Wise Man and the Foolish Man in nursery today. She is still singing it, but when she gets to the chorus she sings “…the rain came down and the flies came up…” instead of “the rain came down and the floods came up”.
I tried correcting her but she told me I was wrong. 😛
We got some peaches from Aunt Linda and Uncle Aaron again this year. So I got to make lots of yummy things as always. 🙂
We had our Girl Scout investiture at the pavilion at our old stake center. We tried to get there early to get set up, but we didn’t get there as early as I would have liked.
Chloe and Dinah got to recite the Girl Scout law with the group of daisies. Then Chloe, since she is a new daisy this year, got to plant a seed of one of the daisy flower friends.
Tyra got to participate in a short candle ceremony with the juniors. The wind made it impossible to actually light the candles though. The wind also kept knocking the flags over.
Our program was nice and short (I think a couple of the families appreciated that), and our refreshments were provided by the girls. I think the girls really enjoy being responsible for the treats once in awhile, and they like to show off what they brought to all the other girls. We mingled awhile while we ate refreshments. Kyle and I kept picking up the trash and putting it in the van (we should have taken a trash bag with but totally didn’t even think of that).
While I was talking to someone, I noticed Lydia off in the field holding her dress up above her waist as she peed. I had to go tell Kyle about it, and a few others noticed and pointed it out to me like I hadn’t already noticed. We have been working on potty training with her and obviously she needed to go, but there weren’t any bathrooms at the pavilion. So wetting herself meant it was time for our family to go home so we could get her taken care of.
Kyle recently came home saying that he decided to get a membership to the Legacy Center in Lehi. We were signing Ethan up for another round of swim lessons and members get a discount. Having a membership also means that while Ethan is at his lesson, the other kids can actually get in the pool too, instead of just sitting on the deck watching the lessons.
We were at the pool today, and all the kids put life jackets on before going in. I really appreciate that, because NONE of them know how to swim, and it helps me to worry less, knowing they’ve got a life jacket on. We are finding that it’s impossible to keep all of the kids together in the pool, they just go wherever they choose. I still find myself stopping every few minutes to see if I can track all seven of them down. Today, Lydia had her life jacket on, as usual, and just floated on her back. She just let the water take her wherever it wanted to take her. Twice the life guards had to pull her out of the area of the pool being used for the swim lessons.
We went shopping yesterday. Kyle had a coupon to use at Sears, and we had decided to go back and get the Hello Kitty bedding that Dinah wanted to get when we got Lydia the Minnie Mouse bedding. When we got there though, they didn’t have any twin size Hello Kitty bedding sets. They only had the one that the girls helped the lady put on the bed for show last time we were there. So we ended up going through a similar fiasco to what we went through last time. Trying to see if they had any others in stock, contacting the manager to ask permission to sell the floor bedding to us….Of course the manager said yes, and lucky for them they happened to put the package under the mattress this time. Since this has happened to us twice now, we also decided to get the Little Mermaid bedding that Chloe had her eye on. We didn’t want to run the risk of them being all gone when we finally decided it was time to go get it! We also stopped off at Costco and Dinah happened to pick out a cake while we were there.
We didn’t get Dinah any other presents besides the bedding, and that I didn’t even bother to wrap. I did wash it so that she could sleep with it though. 🙂
