This, that and the other thing

So much of nothin' going on, I hardly know where to start. The kids are really enjoying playing basketball. Jacob and Carly have both scored points for their team. Wesley got hit in the face with a basketball Saturday but managed to soldier up and carry on. In celebration of all of this, we made chocolate milkshakes in the afternoon.

Carly finished reading Little Women, so Monday afternoon, Andi and I watched the movie with her. I can't wait for her to read Anne of Green Gables.

We also found an old tape of Andi and Zac growing up when we were searching for Little Women, so we watched that, too. It went back to when Andi was just 16 months old - about what Sophie is right now. It was easy to see that Sophie looks like her mom.

Last night was the Raingutter Regatta for Scouts (a boat race). Not that I'm a slacker mom, but right when I was trying to get everyone in the car, a horrible storm rolled through and Wesley was freaking out worse than I've ever seen. I opened the garage door and the rain started pouring in totally sideways from the wind blowing at around 50 mph. I sent all of the kids back into the house and grabbed my wood I had stained for a conference table base I was making for church and started to dry it off.

Meanwhile, Wes is spinning in the kitchen floor screaming that Mom is going to be killed in the garage and Jacob is putting on his pajamas, thinking we weren't going at all. So by the time I got Wes calmed down, Jacob re-dressed and we went out again, the camera was forgotten. Jacob won 3 out of 5 races and placed 7th overall out of 23 kids.


Backtracking a bit, Jacob ran out to the garage on Monday to tell me that Ms. Terry was bringing something over for me. As you may recall, I conned her into taking Wego off our hands, so as long as what she was bringing wasn't furry and peed everywhere, I knew it would be OK.

HOW OK IT WAS -- I wouldn't have guessed. Check this out. We are talking major compartments, a huge outside zipper and a little flip out thing to hold more stuff. I don't even have all the parts in the billfold in the picture. I spent about an hour on Monday just moving stuff around and thinking what a great thing a blog is. Just because I wrote about something I now have a new billfold that might possibly be even cooler than my most favorite old one.

My dad showed up unexpectedly last night. Just walked in the door about 9:30 - nearly scared me to death. He spent the night and we had a good visit today. Andi and I played Rummicubes with him all afternoon and I got beat soundly. Gotta tell you - that is nearly unheard of. I lost every round.

School is going well for the kids. Carly and Wesley finished their third grade reading and spelling books and have started their fourth grade books.
Ryan is almost done with his second grade books. Everyone is progressing nicely but I really can't imagine them in public school. I think they are too used to the way we do things around here to suddenly change into what would be expected of them in public school.

I took the table base to church tonight and was able to mark that off my list of things to do. As of now, there are 18 kids signed up to take the cooking class I'm teaching on Saturday. Andi was going to by my helper, but found out today that the Polar Bear Plunge for Special Olympics starts at the exact same time.

Although she took the plunge a few years ago, this time it is Big Guy who will be doing it. Sort of like policemen hazing, near as I can figure. Some sort of "all the rookies have to do it" tradition. So, I'm down one helper and trying not to panic.

Andi has been to another roller derby practice. All of our friends think it is great, albeit hilarious that she is doing this. I'm sure she's good for some ticket sales.

Keegan is staying awake for longer periods of time and any day now I'm sure he is going to break out in smiles. Right now he just has that same serious look that Sophie had for so long. Oh, and the doublechin.

I guess that about catches things up around here.

And just because she's cute -- a picture of Sos to close this long post out.