Boys

I love boys! They are so much fun! Boys have so much amazing energy!

Nate and Will went on a backpacking adventure of their own. They filled their backpacks with the essentials. Things like hammers, tractors, chalk, a magnifying glass and squirt-guns, you know things you can't live without. They wanted to walk around the city. But I made them stay in the circle. (I know I'm so terrible)

Then, Nate fell off the bunk bed, hit his head on his dresser and split his head. So we took him to PCMC. We waited 4 hours in the ER (that was a blast) getting home at 1:30 am, where he got staples in his head.

We babysat for my adorable little nephew Owen! Emery is a great help, and can't get enough of babies. It's so much fun to see him cruising on the furniture. What a cute little guy.

Playgroup was at our house on Friday. We had 10 kids here. I love all the kids in our neighborhood, so it is really fun. But the best part was all the littler kids that came. Will thought he was so cool with all his friends there. Keni came a little later too and apparently thought she was one of the big kids going to playgroup.


Then Nate lost both his front teeth. I don't know why but the two front teeth missing is just so dang cute. (Until they get their permanent teeth, that are to big for their mouths and are crooked.)



We've also been having Ethan mow the lawn. We pay him $3 (oh yes I love slave labor)! Isn't this why we have kids? So we don't have to do things ourselves? And we only have to pay them pennies? He's also a great babysitter! We've paid him a couple of times to babysit. We had Ethan and Emery babysit one night when Josh and I went out. This is the phone conversation we received;

Ethan: "Mom Will has major diarrhea."
Me: "Well make sure he gets to the bathroom."
Ethan: "Uh mom....it's too late for that."
Me: crap (literally)
Ethan: "It's all over in his pjs!"
Me: "Well take off his pjs and wipe him up."
Ethan: "No mom, it's aaaalllll over him."
Me: gggrr... I really don't want to go home..... "Can you give him a shower?"
Ethan in the background: "Emery we have to give him a shower."
*silence*
Ethan: "This is so gross, I can't do it."
Me: "Just do it."
Emery's background noise: "Eww! Eww! Gross! Eww! Disgusting! Sick!"
Me: "Ethan go help your sister."
Ethan: silence
Me: "Ethan get his pjs off and put him in the shower!!"
Ethan: "Mom, I'm on the phone. Emery is doing that part."

We got home and the pjs had been rinsed out, and were in the sink. Will was safely clean, in clean pjs and sound asleep. Ethan's a great micro manager!!Needless to say, he's gotten a taste of $$. So now he's kind of obsessed with finding jobs.