A good reason to hand water!

There probably isn't a REALLY good reason to hand water...  I mean if you don't have a sprinkler system, then of course you would HAVE to hand water.  We have a sprinkler system, it is just missing an important part, and Josh has had a hard time finding the part we need.  But we have an HOA in this house that requires us having green grass.  So Josh must hand water until we find the part we need...

Tonight when I got home with the kids, Josh was watering.  I sent the kids in to brush their teeth, and then went over to talk to Josh.  The kids all brushed their teeth (except maybe Catalina, she can be tricky), and then came back out to talk to Josh.  I'm not sure what started it, but Josh started to spray the kids some with the hose.  It quickly became a game of "Catch Me If You Can".  It was so funny to watch the kids try and dodge the water and "hide" behind things so that they wouldn't get wet.  Josh and I had a great laugh!  And so did most of the kids ;)

Swimming

I have started swimming laps in hope to gain back my pre-kids body :)  I suck!!!  A couple laps and my heart is racing, and I am short on air.  Of course it would probably help if I took more breaths while I swam :)  I swam laps for about a half an hour today.  Now before you get too excited thinking that I did a lot, most of those laps were with a kick board using mostly my legs...  But not all of them.  In fact I raced my little sister today, and she usually beats me.  But not today.  Well OK she won the first race, but I beat her on the second race and I didn't even cheat.  Unless you add in the fact that she got back from England LATE last night, and was going on a little sleep.  But that's not really cheating, right?  I raced Josh Jr. last week, and beat him too!  I think he was a little disappointed that I beat him.  He didn't talk to me for a little while after the race.  Then he asked for a rematch... And I beat him again!  Of course it helps that I can swim the whole width of the pool in one breath.

Are you mad at me?

Tonight after I laid Myra down for the night I ended up downstairs taking care of a problem with the other kids.  I ended up down stairs longer than I had hoped to be, and when I came up stairs I discovered that Myra hadn't gone to sleep.  In fact she was very angry!  I tried to give her a bottle in her bed to get her to calm back down and go to sleep.  It didn't work.  She drank her bottle and then started to fuss again.  I went in and picked her up.  I ended up cuddling with her for a little while for her to go to sleep (so nice!  I miss the cuddles!).  But when I first started to cuddle with Myra she kept sticking her elbow up at me, like she was trying to block me.  I would put it down, and then she would pop it back up!  It made me think that she was a little mad that I had left her in her bed for so long...

Barbie and the Fee Mucketeers

Grandma Julie baby sat my kids this evening (Thanks!).  The girls were watching Barbie and the Three Musketeers when we got there.  Grandma Julie let them bring them home the movie to finish, and so they did.  They quickly put it on when we got home.  All the kids came up when it was finished for prayers.  Catalina was very excited by the movie.  She went around dubbing everyone "Mucketeers"!  Myra was even a baby "Mucketeer".  And as she ran off to brush her teeth she informed me that she was going to be a "Mucketeer Maowmay"! With a kid :)

Pet Peeve

I have many I'm sure, and I usually try not to share them...  But I really hate when I load the dishwasher, and set the delay start...  Only to find out (much) later that someone opened the dishwasher, and so it didn't run.   GRRRR!  It is even worse when I do it to my self :)

Budding Photographer???

My young children LOVE to take pictures! I guess the new age digital camera makes it much easier... I would probably hide my cameras if it was still a 35mm one that you had to get developed. But with digital pictures you can take 100 and delete half of them. Catalina (and Savannah, but mostly Catalina) LOVES the camera. She often "sneaks" it and fills it up with pictures (unless she is caught). I have posted some of her pictures before, but it's been awhile. I thought I would post some new fun ones today. Enjoy :)

Kids!

I think I have mentioned before that I have a few kids :)  6 to be exact.  This evening I am watching 3 kids for my friend, and my oldest has a friend over...  That makes a total of 10 kids at my house right now.  Some would think I am crazy (they are probably right).  But I have found that more often than not the extra kids don't make things harder...  They actually make things easier.  My kids (almost) all have someone to play with, and they leave me a lone.  Except for a couple of fights (over dress up clothes) and the neighbors behind us throwing water balloons at the boys, it has been a very quiet night.